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Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle , a set of variations , two film scores , and a Latin Requiem Mass. In , The New York Times referred to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history". Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions, including national tours, of Lloyd Webber musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group.

He is also the president of the Arts Educational Schools , London, a performing arts school located in Chiswick, west London.

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Lloyd Webber was born on 22 March at Westminster Hospital in London, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] the elder son of William Lloyd Webber — , a composer and organist, and Jean Hermione Johnstone — , a violinist and pianist. Lloyd Webber started writing his own music at a young age: a suite of six pieces at the age of nine. In his memoir, he writes: "mum was determined that I should be a prodigy in something or other.

His father enrolled him as a part-time student at the Eric Gilder School of Music in An avid listener of s rock and pop music, he called The Rolling Stones song " I Can't Get No Satisfaction " the "best record of the Sixties", and Dusty Springfield 's rendition of " Son of a Preacher Man " the song that taught him "the power of a perfect pop song".

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In , when Lloyd Webber was a year-old budding musical-theatre composer, he was introduced to the year-old aspiring pop-song writer Tim Rice. Although composed in , The Likes of Us was not publicly performed until , when a production was staged at Lloyd Webber's Sydmonton Festival. The first amateur performance was by a children's theatre group in Cornwall called "Kidz R Us".

Stylistically, The Likes of Us is fashioned after the Broadway musical of the s and s; it opens with a traditional overture comprising a medley of tunes from the show, and the score reflects some of Lloyd Webber's early influences, particularly Richard Rodgers , Frederick Loewe , and Lionel Bart. In this respect, it is markedly different from the composer's later work, which tends to be either predominantly or wholly through-composed , and closer in form to opera.