Andrew Lloyd Webber "Joseph" began life as a short cantata that gained some recognition on its second staging with a favourable review in "The Times". For its subsequent performances, Rice and Lloyd Webber revised the show and added new songs to expand it to a more substantial length. Continued expansion eventually culminated in a 1972 stage musical and then a two-hour-long production being staged in the West End in 1973 on the back of the success of "Jesus Christ Superstar". In 1969 Rice and Lloyd Webber wrote a song for the Eurovision Song Contest called "Try It and See", which was not selected.
Andrew Lloyd Webber that Lloyd Webber had stolen a melody from his own song "Till You", but the court ruled in Lloyd Webber's favour. There was another accusation of plagiarism regarding Pink Floyd. The band released their sixth studio album "Meddle" in 1971, and the sixth track of the album "Echoes" had a riff which Lloyd Webber based his "iconic" organ riff from "Phantom of the opera". Very similar notes were taken, same time signature of 12/8, along with the order of the notes played. Lloyd Webber's pipe organ riff from the opera played: D, C#, C, B, A#, then ascending A#, B,