Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Superstar - Murray Head
2. Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Julie Covington
3. Phantom Entr'acte - Andrew Lloyd Webber
4. The Phantom of the Opera - Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford
5. You Must Love Me - Madonna
6. No Matter What - Boyzone
7. Love Changes Everything - Michael Ball
8. Any Dream Will Do - Lee Mead
9. Take That Look Off Your Face - Marti Webb
10. I Believe My Heart - Duncan James and Keedie
11. Oh What A Circus - David Essex
12. Memory - Elaine Paige
13. I Don't Know How To Love Him - Yvonne Elliman
14. All I Ask Of You - Sarah Brightman and Cliff Richard
15. Whistle Down The Wind - Andrea Ross
16. Another Suitcase In Another Hall - Barbara Dickson
17. As If We Never Said Goodbye - Barbra Streisand
18. Masquerade - Ensemble
19. I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You - Linda Lewis
20. Amigos Para Siempre - Sarah Brightman and Jose Carreras

Disc 2:

1. It's Easy For You - Elvis Presley
2. Close Every Door - Donny Osmond
3. Memory - Barbra Streisand
4. With One Look - Glenn Close
5. Superstar - Anastacia
6. The Last Man In My Life - Shirley Bassey
7. Gus: The Theatre Cat - Susan Jane Tanner and Sir John Mills
8. The Vaults of Heaven - Tom Jones and the Sounds of Blackness
9. Tell Me On A Sunday - Denise Van Outen
10. Chanson D'Enfance - Sarah Brightman
11. One Rock and Roll Too Many - Maynard Williams and John Partridge
12. The First Man You Remember - Kevin Colson and Diana Morrison
13. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - Emmy Rossum
14. A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste - The Metal Philharmonic Orchestra
15. News Ways To Dream - Patti Lupone
16. Starlight Express - El DeBarge
17. Variations I - IV - Andrew Lloyd Webber
18. Crazy - Greg Ellis/Reva Rice/Caron Cardelle/Samantha Lane/Void
19. Mr Mistoffelees - Paul Nicholas
20. Cold - The Everly Brothers

Disc 3:

1. A Game Of Two Halves - Andrew Lloyd Webber
2. God's Own Country - Josie Walker and Dianne Pilkington
3. Hosanna - Placido Domingo
4. Pie Jesu - Sarah Brightman and Paul Miles-Kingston
5. The Music of the Night - Michael Crawford
6. The Perfect Year - Petula Clark
7. The Jellicle Ball - Andrew Lloyd Webber
8. Evermore Without You - Martin Crewes
9. Too Much In Love To Care - Sarah Brightman and John Barrowman
10. All The Love I Have - Renee Fleming and Bryn Terfel
11. Jesus Christ Superstar Overture - Andrew Lloyd Webber
12. Sunset Boulevard - John Barrowman
13. Unexpected Song - Sarah Brightman
14. Half A Moment - Jose Carreras
15. Let Us Love In Peace - Hannah Waddingham and Ben Goddard
16. King Herod\x{2019}s Song \x{2013} Alice Cooper
17. Buenos Aires - Elena Roger
18. Learn To Be Lonely - Andrea Ross
19. Make Up My Heart - Connie Fisher
20. Any Dream Will Do - Jason Donovan

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1708 in Music
• Released on: 2008-10-06
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .27 pounds
• Running time: 239 minutes

Album Description
Polydor Records celebrates the 60th birthday of Andrew Lloyd -Webber, indisputably the most successful composer of our time, with the release of `60'. This amazing 3 CD, 60 track set spans the whole of Andrew's illustrious career and includes hits from all of his most famous musicals - Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats,Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Starlight Express, Evita, Sunset Boulevard and of course The Phantom Of The Opera. The album features hit recordings, hits from cast albums all sung by a diverse range of superstar and original artists.

From Elvis Presley singing It's Easy For You (the song that Andrew and Tim Rice wrote especially for him) to Barbra Streisand, Sarah Brightman, Shirley Bassey, John Barrowman, Michael Crawford, Madonna, Tom Jones and rocker Alice Cooper (singing King Herod's Song) this collection has it all.

Customer Reviews

Superb music...tricky box
This is a wonderfully varied, superbly sung, reasonably ordered 3 disc compilation of Webber's life's work. The versions are beautiful, there's the `classics' : Sarah Brightman, Jason Donovan etc. But this really does span all the avenues for his creations; Emmy Rossum's version of `Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again' is included from the film version of Phantom and Madonna's `You Must Love Me' from the Evita film. There are also some of the most recent stage versions; Lee Mead and Connie Fisher are both featured, from the popular Any Dream Will Do and How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? Although Connie sings `Make Up My Heart' from Starlight Express. I also very much enjoyed Elvis Presley being included and some other lesser known ones (at least to me).

The third disc is my least favourite, only a couple of the songs really stood out, the first two are by far the better, being lest varied but more memorable, featured heavily are: Starlight Express, Tell Me On A Sunday, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Phantom of the Opera, Whistle Down the Wind and Cats. As these are my favourites I didn't mind, though some of the repititions of tracks but by different performers was hard to justify - why for example include Barbra Streisand's version of 'Memory' when Elaine Paige singing the song is on the first disc and it eclipses Streisand version.

I think the first two discs are more successful because more thought seems to have gone into the ordering of the tracks; disc one for instance has many title tracks like `The Phantom of the Opera', `Superstar', `Whistle Down the Wind' and the songs that you associate with specific musicals, the ones that really stand alone and can be taken out of context, like `Memory' and `Love changes Everything'. Disc two contrasts by being a lot more melancholic, thematically the songs deal with loss and are highly reflective, Elvis Presley's `Its Easy for You' and `Close Every Door' do this very well. Also the tracks here have a Rock and Roll sound to them, Anastacia's version of `Superstar' fits in well, the high points for me are `One Rock `n' Roll too many' and `A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste' the latter being the Metal Philharmonic Orchestra version. Conversely disc three is a bit of a miss match of songs, personally I hate the first track and I dislike some of the versions, but there are high points: `Pie Jesu', `The Music of the Night' and `Make up my Heart'. Most of the tracks on this disc are meditative and slow, except for Alice Cooper's bizarre version of `King Herod's Song'.

I mentioned the case, it is pretty tricky to remove the individual CD's which are cramped in tight.

Still I very much recommend, it's not perfect but very enjoyable and you get a lot for your money, this may even be better then `Music of the Night' another great musical and film complication double disc that I treasure. But do make sure you look carefully at the contents of the three discs as personal taste may dictate whether you think it's worth buying.

P.S After long periods of banging and muttering my outer case allows for much easier removal of the CDs.

P.S.S The more I listen to this the more I love it.

Doug's opinion
This CD set introduced me to many of ALW's compositions that I had not realized were his, and to many singers I did not know had recorded his work (such as Elvis Presley!). I have enjoyed listening to this over several days.

A 'must-have' for all Lloyd Webber fans
Great compilation. All the tunes you know and love seem to be on it. Great value.