Andrew Lloyd Webber theatre. He also had originally set music to "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" at the age of 15. In 1965, Lloyd Webber was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School and studied history for a term at Magdalen College, Oxford, although he abandoned the course in the winter of 1965 to study at the Royal College of Music and pursue his interest in musical theatre. In 1965, when Lloyd Webber was a 17-year-old budding musical-theatre composer, he was introduced to the 20-year-old aspiring pop-song writer Tim Rice. Their first collaboration was "The Likes of Us", a musical based on the
The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) the standard version. Following the original mini CD release of the single in Japan, it was re-issued there again in 1992 on the same format. Brightman and Harley's version of the song would later appear on the 1994 compilation "The Very Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber", as well as another Webber compilation titled "Gold – The Definitive Hit Singles Collection", released in 2001. Directed by Ken Russell, the music video for the single also acted as promotion for the upcoming musical. After the chart success of the single, Webber wanted to further promote the musical, and the resultant video took