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
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever is a 2001 box set compilation album of the music of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Released in 2001 and comprising five discs in total, the album's first three discs feature a selection of between three and five tracks from each of Lloyd Webber's musicals to date, roughly in chronological order. The fourth disc, entitled Hits & More, features tracks that were released as singles, and the fifth disc, The Vaults, features obscure and previously unreleased tracks. The discs are contained in a hardback book, with copious notes on