Songs that might have influenced Andrew Lloyd Webber...

I recently read something about Andrew Lloyd Webber "stealing" music from other composers, so I looked for the songs and decided to create this little video...
You have to listen really carefully to some of the songs to see the resemblance but with others it is more obvious...
However, I don't think Lloyd Webber stole anything from anybody, because I believe that everybody is influenced by its surroundings and what they see or hear, so those tunes might just have been somewhere in the back of his mind when he wrote phantom/superstar...
AND he didn't "steal" whole melodies but just some phrases which he changed again and so on...

You'll hear Andrew's version first and then the song that is supposed to/might have influenced/inspired him

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Andrew
• Lloyd
• Webber
• Phantom
• of
• the
• Opera
• Jesus
• Christ
• Superstar
• Pink
• Floyd
• Echoes
• Music
• Night
• Puccini
• Turandot
• Mendelssohn
• Violin
• Concerto
• Brigadoon

[1AdrianR]

Echoes is a chromatic scale, no one owns it

[jimdivax]

Composers often borrow, but rarely out right 'steal' like this! He settles out of court with the Puccini Estate for Music Of The Night, though....and Don't Cry For Me Argentina's MELODY'S a slowed down Argentinian folk-song!!!!

[illinformedgeek]

@AndrewRudin weber stated that he ''based'' memory on Ravel's Bolero. But if you want to hear the real source of the melody, and it is note for note not just similar listen to Imants Kalniņš Viņi dejoja vienu vasaru. Utube = watch?v=GdN2JcHwars&feature=re­lated . And start at 2:22. This piece was written prior to the film which was made in 1967

[LatinAmericaStudios]

Try to compare Growltiger (Cats) and Cash/Nelson - Ghost Riders in the Sky - sounds like a variation to me! Sorry - can't post links direct - but titles are both on You Tube.

[Pirate44444]

@AndrewRudin To be fair, my first gcse composition sounded a heck of a lot like memories/bolero and I didn't notice at all until someone pointed it out to me. It's quite easy to do.

[AndrewRudin]

And, yeah... Echoes is a chromatic scale... but... really..? Exactly the same rhythm? and 5 notes down/pause/five note back up? Come on.

[AndrewRudin]

You forgot MEMORY/Ravel's Bolero. It's amazing what you can get away with, if you just add (or take away) the first note of a stolen melody, or change it from a triple meter to a duple.

[PowerRedBull]

@maliamontagna

he is rich and influencial. That's why he gets away with this. It's not like he had any talent in the first place. He problably knew the right people. Thats how it goes in the business of hollywood. Never noticed most actors are family from other actors who were famous to begin with ? It's all people knowing people ..etc Its all faked

[PowerRedBull]

@enedving

dont be afraid. Webber knows he's stealing...its not just something that might happen

[TangerineWizard123]

how dare this toad steal from the almighty pink floyd. should have been strangled at birth. atleast zeppelin took from friends WITH there permission.

[188basstrom]

I think I can take this Phantom opening theme back further to Vaughan Williams Symphony No.2 1st movement.

[enedving]

Wow, videos like this make me afraid to write any music.