The lyric, written by Cats director Trevor Nunn, was loosely based on T.S. Eliot 's poems "Preludes '' and "Rhapsody on a Windy Night ''. '' Andrew Lloyd Webber 's former writing partner Tim Rice and contemporary collaborator Don Black submitted a lyric to the show 's producers for consideration, although Nunn 's version was favoured. Elaine Paige has said that she sang a different lyric to the tune of "Memory '' for the first ten previews of Cats.
who wrote the lyrics to memory from cats
Trevor Nunn