Facts : 1 Accusations of plagiarism Lloyd Webber has been accused of plagiarism in his works
Facts : 2 Andrew Lloyd Webber has yet to think up a single note; in fact, the poor guy s never invented one note by himself
Facts : 3 However, Lloyd Webber s biographer, John Snelson, countered such accusations
Facts : 4 He acknowledged a similarity between the Andante movement of Mendelssohn s Violin Concerto in E minor and the Jesus Christ Superstar song I Don t Know How to Love Him , but wrote that Lloyd Webber: ...brings a new dramatic tension to Mendelssohn s original melody through the confused emotions of Mary Magdalene
Facts : 5 The opening theme may be Mendelssohn, but the rhythmic and harmonic treatment along with new lines of highly effective melodic development are Lloyd Webber s
Facts : 6 The song works in its own right as its many performers and audiences can witness
Facts : 7 In interviews promoting Amused to Death, Roger Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd, claimed that Lloyd Webber had copied a short chromatic riff from the 1971 song Echoes for sections of The Phantom of the Opera, released in 1986; nevertheless, he decided he did not want to file a lawsuit
Facts : 8 The songwriter Ray Repp also claimed that Lloyd Webber stole a different melody from his own song Till You
Facts : 9 Unlike Roger Waters, Ray Repp did decide to sue, but the court ruled in Lloyd Webber s favour