Tim Rice: Difference between revisions

Rice raised funds for the [[No Campaign (UK)|Euro No]] campaign in 2000.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/909043.stm|title=Anti-euro campaign launched|work=BBC News|date=4 September 2000|access-date=17 February 2020}}</ref> In 2014 he was a donor to the [[UK Independence Party]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10656628/Dont-cry-for-me-David-Cameron-Sir-Tim-Rice-emerges-as-Ukip-donor.html|date=23 February 2014 | title= Sir Tim Rice emerges as Ukip donor |work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> In May 2016, he told ''[[The Spectator]]'' that he would vote for [[Brexit]] in the following month's [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|referendum on the issue]], saying: "It would be good to spend one's final years as part of a truly independent nation once more." He said he had voted to remain in the [[European Economic Community]] in 1975 "from a standpoint of ignorance".<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-spectator-poll-are-you-in-or-out-bob-geldof-tim-rice-joey-essex-have-their-say | title= The Spectator poll: Are You In or Out? Bob Geldof, Tim Rice & Joey Essex have their say | work=The Spectator | date=27 May 2016 | access-date=8 March 2021}}</ref>

 

Describing his religion, Rice stated in a 1982 interview, "Technically I'm [[Church of England]], which is really nothing. But I don't follow it. I wouldn't say I was a [[Christianity|Christian]]. I have nothing against it." Conversely, he also stated that he adapted the biblical stories of Joseph and Jesus to musicals because "I'd always rather take a true story over an untrue one."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19821127&id=uzwsAAAAIBAJ&pg=6254,6671012|title=Lyricist is Unreligious|access-date=28 September 2014}}</ref>