Editing Andrew Lloyd Webber (section)

==Early life==
Lloyd Webber was born on 22 March 1948, at [[Westminster Hospital]] in London,<ref>{{cite news|title = Births|date = 24 March 1948|newspaper = [[The Times]]|page = 1|quote = LLOYD WEBBER.—On March 22, 1948, at the Westminster Hospital, to JEAN, wife of DR. W. S. LLOYD WEBBER—a son.}}</ref><ref name="whoswho">{{cite journal |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.24803 |title=Lloyd-Webber, Baron, (Andrew Lloyd Webber) (born 22 March 1948)|journal=[[Who's Who (UK)|Who's Who]] |year=2007}}</ref> the elder son of [[William Lloyd Webber]] (1914–1982), a composer and organist, and Jean Hermione Johnstone (1921–1993), a violinist and pianist.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/3633292/Family-detective.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/3633292/Family-detective.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Family detective |first=Nick |last=Barratt |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date= 7 July 2007}}{{cbignore}}</ref> His younger brother, [[Julian Lloyd Webber]], is a world-renowned solo cellist.<ref>{{cite web |last=Barnett |first=Laura |title=Julian Lloyd Webber, cellist – portrait of the artist |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jan/08/julian-lloyd-webber-cellist-portrait-artist |work=The Guardian |date=8 January 2014 |access-date=25 December 2014}}</ref> On the BBC's genealogy series ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]'', he learned that his mother's great-great-uncle was the soldier Sir [[Peregrine Maitland]] who in 1815 served as a major general at the [[Battle of Waterloo]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Andrew Lloyd Webber |url=https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2023/who-do-you-think-you-are/andrew-lloyd-webber-1841/ |work=The Genealogist |access-date=11 June 2023}}</ref>

[[File:Royal College of Music - April 2007.jpg|thumb|Lloyd Webber studied at the [[Royal College of Music]] in London as did his father William. In 2014, he received an honorary doctorate from the college for his "contribution to musical life".<ref>{{cite news |title=Andrew Lloyd Webber honoured by Royal College of Music |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2014/andrew-lloyd-webber-honoured-royal-college-music/ |work=The stage |access-date=29 June 2019}}</ref>]]

Lloyd Webber started writing his own music at a young age: a [[Suite (music)|suite]] of six pieces at the age of nine.<ref>Otis L. Guernsey, Jeffrey Sweet (1995). ''The Best Plays of 1994-1995''. p. 109. Limelight Editions</ref> He also put on "productions" with Julian and his aunt Viola in his toy theatre (which he built at Viola's suggestion). In his memoir, he writes: "mum was determined that I should be a prodigy in something or other."<ref name="Memoir"/> His aunt Viola, an actress, took him to see many of her shows and through the stage door into the world of the theatre. His father enrolled him as a part-time student at the [[Eric Gilder School of Music]] in 1963.<ref>Lloyd Webber, Andrew (2018). [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unmasked-Andrew-Lloyd-Webber/dp/000823759X/ ''Unmasked: A Memoir'', pp. 41–42]. London: Harper Collins.</ref> At this time he was working on a [[Genghis Khan]] musical called ''Westonia!''.<ref name="Memoir">{{cite news |title=Review: Unmasked – A memoir by Andrew Lloyd Webber |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/102457251/review-unmasked--a-memoir-by-andrew-lloyd-webber |access-date=21 November 2023 |website=Stuff}}</ref>

From 1960 to 1965, Lloyd Webber was a [[Queen's Scholar]] at [[Westminster School]]. An avid listener of 1960s rock and pop music, he called [[The Rolling Stones]] song "[[(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction]]" the "best record of the Sixties", and [[Dusty Springfield]]'s rendition of "[[Son of a Preacher Man]]" the song that taught him "the power of a perfect pop song".<ref>{{cite news |title=Soundtrack to my life: Andrew Lloyd Webber |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/jun/18/40 |access-date=21 November 2023 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> He 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]] in London and pursue his interest in musical theatre.<ref>Katie Marsico (2010). [https://books.google.com/books?id=LISu9S6HyqgC&pg=PA13 How to Analyze the Works of Andrew Lloyd Webber] pp.13-14. ABDO, 2010</ref><ref>''The Illustrated London News'', Volume 277. p.46. The Illustrated London News & Sketch Ltd., 1989</ref>