Article: Review - Books: Don't cry for either of them Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice still cannot quite shake each other off, says Charles Spencer

Cats on a Chandelier: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Story

by Michael Coveney

Hutchinson, pounds 17.99, 282 pp

Oh, What a Circus

by Tim Rice

Hodder & Stoughton, 18.99, 456 pp

ACCORDING to a much cherished showbiz anecdote, Andrew Lloyd Webber once asked the My Fair Lady lyricist Alan Jay Lerner why people always took such an instant dislike to him. "It saves time later", was the devastating reply.

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