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Andrew and Eliot
Cats' music was made by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the story or lyrics were based on the book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939)" written by T.S Eliot. I am very amazed at Andrew's talent because most of lyrics are written due to the music, but Cats, the music was made due to the lyrics which were written by T.S Eliot. See more details of the two great people below.
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T.S. Eliot
Thomas Sterns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, on September 26, 1888. He was educated at Harvard, at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Merton College, Oxford.
During the nineteen-twenties he frequented the ballet, the theatre and the London music hall, especially the Palladium. Eliot's book of poems, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats appeared in October 1939. 'Possum' was Eliot's alias among his friends. Other works include; Sweeney Agonistes, The Rock, Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion and Four Quartets.
Eliot received the Order of Merit in January 1948 and in the autumn of the same year was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Among many other honours and distinctions he was an Officier de la Legion d'Honneur. He was awarded the Hanseatic Goethe Prize 1954 and the Dante Gold Medal 1959.
T.S. Eliot died in London in January 1965.There is a memorial to him in Poets' Corner, Westminister Abbey, beside Tennyson and Browning.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber was born in 1948. He is the composer of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Jesus Christ Superstar; the film scores of Gumshoe and The Odessa File; Evita; Variations and Tell Me on a Sunday combined as Song & Dance; Cats; Starlight Express; Requiem, a setting of the Latin Requiem Mass; The Phantom of the Opera; Aspects of Love; Sunset Boulevard; By Jeeves, an acclaimed re-working of his earlier Jeeves and Whistle Down the Wind.
He has won six Tony awards, four Drama Desk awards, three Grammys, including the award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for Requiem in 1986, and five Laurence Olivier awards. In 1997 he and Sir Tim Rice won the Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Original Song for the Evita movie soundtrack.
In 1992 he became the first person to have three musicals running in New York and three in London. In 1988 he was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Music and in 1992 he was awarded a knighthood for Services to the Arts. He was inducted into the American Songwriters' Hall of Fame and given the Praemium Imperiale award for Music in 1995. In 1996 he received the Richard Rodgers award for Excellence in Musical Theatre. In January 1997 he was elevated to the peerage as The Lord Lloyd-Webber of Sydmonton.
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