The Musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber. 1.

 

George writes:

Mr CC wrote “I'm lacking inspiration , new material and no ideas for new series'(suggestions welcomed!). “ I suggested something: It has occurred to me that none of the blogs I read show an appreciation of the genre of musicals, any musicals, not just those of the man in the title. And it’s about time someone corrected this, so here goes.

Mr Lloyd Webber has written at least a plethora of musicals. His first is based on a book by Leslie Thomas, not the Virgin Soldiers one but a biography of Thomas Barnardo (of children’s home fame), a man who was in no way related to the pioneering heart transplant chappie. And inexplicably, although written in 1965, when Mr Lloyd Webber was 17 (17, bloody hell I was doing my Highers when I was 17, and discovering the joys of Tennent’s lager),  it was not performed publicly until 2005. 

One of the tracks on The Likes of Us, that all-important first album, is Man of The World, and this is from when they were good:

This is the ALW song, and I dare you to listen to it all the way through.

“Going, going, gone” also graces the soundtrack:

………and here it is:

Did anyone meet the challenge and listen to it?

Big Big Train released an album called The Likes of Us, alas there is no title track. I do not know if this album relates to Thomas Barnardo.

Thanks to Mr CC, and to you for reading.

CC writes

Thanks George .

I think that this is the first time that Andrew Lloyd Webber has appeared on these pages.

I notice with a degree of apprehension that there is a number 1 attached!

If this doesn't snap me out of my writer's block, nothing will!