These Iconic Songwriters Made Insane Fortunes

Andrew Lloyd Webber ($1.3 billion)

Webber was a musical prodigy (he’s still alive, by the way) since he was 3 years old. Before he learned to tie his own shoes, Webber was already playing the piano, violin, and french horn on a borderline professional level. By the age of 6, Webber had mastered the violin and was writing his own classical compositions. Tim Rice (world-renowned lyricist and previously featured on this list) contacted him in the early 1960s about producing music together, and the rest is pretty much history. 

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