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Oh, What A Circus

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4th May 2000

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780340654590

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With wit and candour, Tim Rice describes the gilded path that took him from cricket and comic-obsessed schoolboy to one of the world’s best-known lyricists. Along the way he worked as a petrol pump attendant and articled clerk before becoming a management trainee at EMI. But it was his fateful meeting with Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1965 which was to be the turning-point in Tim’s career. Immediate fortune didn’t follow and it took the album of Jesus Christ Superstar to reach no.1 in the States before they were taken seriously. Covering every aspect of his life until his marriage to Jane McIntosh and the opening of the stage production of Evita, this is an engaging and fascinating autobiography.

Reviews

The Sunday Times
His style is edgy and elegant, and makes for a memorable read
Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph
Thoroughly engaging read by a thoroughly likeable chap
Mail on Sunday
In ... Fascinating detail ... Rice describes the conception and birth pangs of ... Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita
What's On In London
Honest, engaging and witty
Midweek
An incredible and unique story
Sunday Herald - Glasgow
Tim has winning charm and wit
Birmingham Post
Funny, revealing and entertaining. It's Rice on Rice, proving yet again how good he is at making stories come alive