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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
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- September 12, 1999
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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.