Unmasked by Andrew Lloyd Webber

I just started reading this book on my Kindle although the book has been out for a couple of years now. This book is his version of his life.

He is my all time favorite musical theatre composer and he has written some incredible music and songs. I have seen all his earlier works and I love them. Like all composers I think the inspiration fades after a while and in his case after Sunset Boulevard. He has not had any hit musicals since then and that is not for want of trying. He has written quite a few musicals after that, none of which did well.

He gave up a place at Oxford to study history to instead focus on writing music and fortunately for him, it turned out to be the right decision.

He started writing songs in school for plays and musicals when he was about 14 and he met his most important collaborator Tim Rice when he was just 16.

I am just at the part when he and Tim have finished writing and putting Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat into small school productions and are now writing Jesus Christ Superstar. But what an enterprising young man he was. Making connections with the right people, taking risks and making good business calls. And of course, he was supremely talented.