Andrew Lloyd Webber extends record deal to 40 years

Published: 10:17AM GMT twenty-three February 2010

The understanding covers digital and CD sales, as well as edition rights for film, TV and promotion Photo: PA

The composer has sealed a new prolonged tenure stipulate with recording hulk Universal, the association he has worked with for 40 years.

The renovation comes forward of his energetically awaited follow-up to The Phantom Of The Opera, Love Never Dies, that is to embrace the premiere subsequent month.

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The understanding additionally covers his complete behind catalogue, stretching behind to the strange Jesus Christ Superstar album, creatively expelled in 1970.

Lloyd Webber"s song has sole in the tens of millions over the past 4 decades, with Phantom alone carrying exceeded twenty million.

Other strike productions have enclosed Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and Cats.

The understanding covers digital and CD sales, as well as edition rights for film, TV and advertising.

Other long-running deals in the song commercial operation embody Barbra Streisand who initial sealed with Columbia Records in 1962. Stevie Wonder initial sealed with Motown a year earlier, nonetheless he was quickly in between contracts in 1971.

Sir Cliff Richard and Sir Paul McCartney each had deals with EMI that lasted some-more than 40 years.

Andrew Lloyd Webber pronounced today: ""I am gay to have renewed my partnership with Universal Music. They have been smashing custodians of my song for over 3 decades, and it is a attribute that I and my colleagues at RUG (Really Useful Group, Lloyd Webber"s company) worth majority highly. Together we have taken the song around the world.""

Lucian Grainge, authority and CEO of Universal Music Group International, said: ""To have a vital commercial operation partnership with Andrew as well as a personal attribute is one of the things that unequivocally creates this commercial operation tick.""