Evita is a concept album released in 1976 and produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice about the life of Eva Perón . Having successfully launched their previous show, Jesus Christ Superstar , on record in 1970, Lloyd Webber and Rice returned to the format for Evita . The album was recorded at Olympic Studios in London from April to September 1976 and released in the United Kingdom on 19 November 1976.
14-443: Evita may refer to: Arts [ edit ] Evita (album) , a 1976 concept album about the life of Eva Perón produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Evita (musical) , a 1978 stage musical based on the concept album Evita (1996 film) , a 1996 film based on the concept album starring Madonna Evita (soundtrack) , the film's soundtrack Evita (2008 film) ,
28-556: A documentary about Eva Péron Evita Bezuidenhout, a character portrayed by South African performer, author, satirist, and social activist Pieter-Dirk Uys Evita Fusilier, a recurring character from the American television series Cloak & Dagger People with the name [ edit ] Eva Perón (also Evita; 1919–1952), wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and First Lady of Argentina Evita Robinson (born 1984), African-American woman known for her role as
42-404: A pioneer of the urban travel movement Other [ edit ] Evita (moth) , a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae See also [ edit ] Eva (name) Eve (name) Ieva Evita Movement , a social, piquetero and political movement of Argentina Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
56-413: A white background. The cover had the name "Evita" written in a cursive font across a line drawn heart and the subtitle "An opera based on the life story of Eva Peron 1919-1952" below. A glossy brochure was included that contained the credits, libretto and a synopsis, with photographs of the cast and producers by Lord Snowdon and others, collected by the film director Carlos Pasini, of Eva Perón. The album
70-415: Is a form of packaging for LP records that became popular in the mid-1960s. A gatefold cover, when folded, is the same size as a standard LP cover (i.e., a 12½-inch [32.7-centimetre] square). The larger gatefold cover provided a means of including artwork, liner notes , and/or song lyrics, which would otherwise not have fit on a standard record cover. It became famous as an extension of progressive rock , as
84-530: The Possible". The libretto and synopsis record "Part One" ending after the balcony scene following "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and "Part Two" beginning with "High Flying, Adored". On both the original LP and subsequent compact disc releases, though, the recording is split such that the balcony scene begins the second half. This split point was retained for the London stage production. As well as producing
98-399: The album sleeve. Disagreement exists as to the identity of the first gatefold LP packaging used with a traditional 33⅓ LP. The LP gatefold has also been adapted to package CDs without a jewel case . In the printing industry, the term gate fold or gatefold means a document folding method that uses two parallel folds to create six panels; the left and right panels are half the width of
112-480: The album, Lloyd Webber and Rice also performed on the recording. Rice's principal role was as one of the army officers on the track "Rainbow Tour" and Lloyd Webber played keyboards. In his autobiography, Rice quotes the production cost of the album at £74,827.83; around five times that of the Superstar concept album. The gatefold album was released with a monochromatic sleeve, simply black text and photographs on
126-455: The cover, with larger albums either placing multiple LPs in one or both sleeves or using larger gatefolds. While some multi-LP releases (particularly those issued during the vinyl record's market dormancy from 1988 to 2007) would either package the discs in a simple sleeve or sandwich the records between two cards and shrink wrap, the prominence of gatefold for multi-LP albums led it to become the most common form of packaging for them. Starting in
140-407: The early 1950s, RCA used gatefold packaging for some of their deluxe 45 RPM single releases, such as Nat King Cole 's eight-song " Unforgettable " EP , with two 45s, released in 1952. Gatefold packaging for LPs was popularized in the late 1950s by band leader and stereophonic studio recording pioneer Enoch Light so he could fit liner notes he had written describing the sounds in each song on
154-425: The expansive, transient gatefolds by artists such as Roger Dean , H. R. Giger , or Hipgnosis became associated with concept albums . Gatefold sleeves were also frequently used when an album contained more than one record, with Bob Dylan's 1966 double album , Blonde on Blonde being an early example of a multi-LP album to be released in a gatefold. Typically, double albums would feature one disc in each half of
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#1732771994477168-443: The original plotline on this album were removed before the show was staged in London in 1978. "Che" here was much more explicitly based on Che Guevara , including a subplot about Guevara's failed efforts to market the insecticide Vendaval, most significantly highlighted in the song "The Lady's Got Potential". The track was cut from the score and a new song written to include the key plotline of Juan Perón 's rise to power: "The Art of
182-511: The title Evita . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evita&oldid=1249915727 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Evita (album) Elements of
196-524: Was relaunched on compact disc in 1996 as the "20th Anniversary Edition" with the cover printed on a silver, blue metalised paper rather than the original white. Side breaks are from the original LP. The CD edition combines sides 1 and 2 on its first disc, and 3 and 4 on its second. The recording also featured The London Philharmonic Orchestra , conducted by Anthony Bowles. Shipments figures based on certification alone. Credits per AllMusic. Gatefold A gatefold cover or gatefold LP
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