Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, perhaps best known for his hugely successful "Phantom of the Opera" and "Cats," has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his spokeswoman said Sunday. Webber is 61.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is up and Paul McCartney is down in an annual list of Britain's richest music figures, released Friday. Lloyd Webber's fortune was valued at 750 million pounds (US$1.5 billion; EUR1.1 billion) by the Sunday Times' annual Rich List, up 50 million pounds from last year.