This memoir by the world's most successful composer of musicals covers Lloyd Webber's life and career from childhood through the production of "Phantom of the Opera." Much of the book is about his youth and education - he was an Oxford University dropout - while the rest covers, in detail, the creation and production of his works beginning with "The Likes of Us." While the process of creating and bringing a major musical production to the stage is interesting, the book gets repetitive as it goes through six major productions and five minor ones. He wrote candidly about his personal life including the dumping of his first wife for the young Sarah Brightman who became his muse for "Phantom". I listened to the audiobook version read by Derek Perkins with the Forward and Afterward read by Lloyd-Webber. Their voices are so similar I felt like it was all read by the author.
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