‘The people adore me/ So, Christian Dior me’ is just one of the many witty and pointed couplets written by Tim Rice and set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber in Evita. It premiered in London, June 1978.
Eight years earlier in 1970, the Earl of Harewood, in a Sydney lecture to Friends of The Australian Opera, played sections of a just-released ‘concept album’ which led in 1971 to the staging of Jesus Christ Superstar.
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