| "Our Kind of Love" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| Songwriter(s) | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton |
Our Kind of Love is a ballad from the 2000 musical The Beautiful Game by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The lyrics were written by Ben Elton.
Lloyd Webber used a Giacomo Puccini-style melody for this song, which he had previously used for the song "The Heart is Slow to Learn" in the 1990s, part of an intended sequel to the Webber musical Phantom of the Opera.[1] The track was recorded by Kiri Te Kanawa in 1998. She performed it live the same year, as part of a concert to celebrate Lloyd Webber's fiftieth birthday which was later released on video and DVD. Elaine Paige performed it during a concert produced by The Really Useful Group in Beijing in 2001, which was also released on DVD.
Lloyd Webber used the tune a third time for the song "Love Never Dies" from the 2010 musical of the same name, which finally served as a sequel to Phantom.[2]
- ^ "Dance". Britannica. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
- ^ Mark Shenton (11 March 2011). "Love Never Dies". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 15 September 2017.