“It has finally dawned on me that my relationship with the Conservative party has irrevocably changed.”
- #wikipedia
- #quote
- #trusted-source
- #www.theguardian.com
- #corroborated
Figure timeline
Tim Rice
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice is an English songwriter. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote, among other shows, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita; Chess ; Aida ; and, for Disney, Aladdin, The Lion King, and the stage adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. He also wrote lyrics for the Alan Menken musical Kin…
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
culture · English lyricist and author (born 1944) · writer · lyricist · composer · screenwriter · songwriter · librettist · poet · journalist · musician · also Tim Rice, Sir Timothy Miles Bindon "Tim" Rice, Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice, Timothy Miles Bindon Rice, Sir Tim Rice, Timothy Rice
Born 10 November 1944 · Q298295
87 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
1 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Quote
- Quote
2026· 4 entries
“I can reject Conservative requests for money with no feeling of guilt.”
- #wikipedia
- #quote
- #trusted-source
- #www.theguardian.com
- #corroborated
“a disgraceful act of dishonesty on my part... without actually breaking the rules”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
Released album “CHESS the Musical (2025 Broadway Cast Recording)”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2025· 2 entries
Variety: ‘The Lion King,’ ‘Aladdin’ Lyricist Tim Rice Returns to Animated Films With ‘Land of Sometimes’ (EXCLUSIVE)
- #news
- #headline
It was announced that Rice and Lloyd Webber will reunite to create the original songs for a new comedy play Sherlock Holmes and The 12 Days of Christmas by David Reed and Humphrey Ker (from the British sketch comedy trou
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2019· 19 entries
Released album “Аладдин: Бірегей саундтрек”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladdín: Banda de sonido original”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “アラジン (オリジナル・サウンドトラック / 日本語版)”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “阿拉丁: 中文版电影原声带”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “알라딘: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladdin: Runut Bunyi Filem Asli”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladdin: Album nhạc phim”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladdin: Norsk Original Soundtrack”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladdin: Banda sonora original”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladdin: Bande Originale française du Film”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladdin: Deutscher original Film‐Soundtrack”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladdin: Colonna sonora originale”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladdin: Originalt dansk soundtrack”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladdin: Alkuperäinen suomalainen soundtrack”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladdín: Banda sonora original”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladyn: Muzyka z filmu”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Аладдин: Оригинальный саундтрек”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Aladdin: Trilha sonora original”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2017· 5 entries
Released album “美女と野獣”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “La Belle et La Bête : Bande originale française du film”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “미녀와 야수”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “美女与野兽”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Die Schöne und das Biest”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2016· 2 entries
Released album “Aladdin: Die Originalversion des Hamburger Musicals”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “The Lion King: Nederlands Castalbum”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2015· 2 entries
Released album “El Rey León (El Ícono De Broadway)”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Rice expressed his indebtedness to the journalist Angus McGill as "the man responsible for Andrew Lloyd Webber and I having our first song recorded"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2014· 1 entry
Donated £7,500 to the UK Independence Party
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2012· 1 entry
For the Olympics or for the Queen's Jubilee celebrations [60 years on throne] but instead it had its premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London at 'The Last Night of the Proms' on Saturday 13 September 2014 which was br
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2011· 2 entries
Released album “El Rey León”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
To pen new songs for Lloyd Webber's newest production of The Wizard of Oz which opened in March 2011 at the London Palladium
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2009· 1 entry
Rice wrote the lyrics for Andrei Konchalovsky's critically panned reimagining of The Nutcracker, set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2008· 1 entry
Rice received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2007· 1 entry
Rice stated that the party were no longer interested in him and that his relationship with them had "irrevocably changed
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2006· 1 entry
Released album “Evita”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2002· 2 entries
Awarded Disney Legends (2002).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Released album “Chess på svenska”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2001· 1 entry
Released album “Aida: De Broadway Hit Musical”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
2000· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for Aida (2000).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Released album “The Tim Rice Songbook”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1999· 2 entries
Released album “Aida”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Elton John & Tim Rice’s Aida: The Demos”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1998· 2 entries
Which covered his childhood and early adult life until the opening of the original London production of Evita in 1978
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Lady Rice manages the family's 33,000-acre Dundonnell estate which Sir Tim Rice bought in 1998 for £2 million.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
1997· 4 entries
Released album “The Lion King: Original Broadway Cast Recording”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “King David: Highlights From the Live Performance”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for You Must Love Me (1997).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Released album “Highlights From Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1996· 2 entries
Released album “Tim Rice Collection: Stage and Screen Classics”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
His collaboration with Lloyd Webber for the film version Evita won Rice his third Academy Award for Best Original Song with the song "You Must Love Me"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1995· 3 entries
Released album “Jesus Christ Superstar”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for Can You Feel the Love Tonight (1995).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for Can You Feel the Love Tonight (1995).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #trophy
- #achievement
1994· 8 entries
Released album “The Music Behind the Magic”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Awarded Grammy Award for Song of the Year for A Whole New World (Aladdin’s Theme) (1994).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media for A Whole New World (1994).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Released album “The Lion King: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Beauty and the Beast”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
A compilation album was released containing some of Rice's best known co-written songs being sung by various artists, titled I Know Them So Well – The Best of Tim Rice (Any Dream Will Do in some countries)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Released album “Chess In Concert”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
(entitling him to the address "Sir Tim Rice" or "Sir Tim"), was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999, and was named a Disney Legend in 2002
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1993· 4 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for A Whole New World (1993).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for A Whole New World (1993).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #trophy
- #achievement
Released album “Aladdin: Colonna sonora originale italiana”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “יוסף וכתונת הפסים המשגעת”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1992· 3 entries
Released album “Jesus Christ Superstar (Highlights From The 20th Anniversary)”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Also Rice's only US number one single to date) and The Lion King (winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe for "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" in 1994)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Released album “Aladdin: Svenskt original soundtrack”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1984· 2 entries
Released album “Chess”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
“s critically panned reimagining of The Nutcracker, set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Rice reunited with Andrew Lloyd Webber in 2011 to pen new songs for Lloyd Webber”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
1982· 1 entry
Describing his religion, Rice stated in a 1982 interview, "Technically I'm Church of England, which is really nothing.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #religion
1981· 1 entry
Released album “Evita: Premiere Australian Cast Recording”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1980· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Original Score for Evita (1980).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1979· 2 entries
Released album “Evita: Premiere American Recording”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
Released album “Excerpts From Evita”.
- #musicbrainz
- #release
- #work
1968· 2 entries
Rice joined him as an assistant producer, working with, among others, Cliff Richard and the Scaffold
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
“I owe [Angus] an awful lot, which is just one of the reasons why I”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
1965· 2 entries
“We had a great 10 years. Very few artistic partnerships last more than 10 years, and if they do they tend to go down the tubes.”
- #wikipedia
- #quote
- #trusted-source
- #www.theguardian.com
- #corroborated
But first staged at the Sydmonton Festival on 9 July 2005)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-11-10.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth