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He started the cello aged around four and usually practised on his own.

There were people coming and going the whole time, including a stream of stray young women to add to the chaos.' From an early age, he had to fix on his goals without much help. I had to do my practice in a corridor between the two flats. 'With all that noise going on you could scarcely hear yourself think. 'Actually it's a wonder I stuck to it at all,' Julian Lloyd Webber says. In the early Seventies, music's boundaries were still set in stone and to us, only the cellist son, Julian, seemed to be making a real mark in our world, despite rather than because of his dazzling brother. Neither wrote the kind of thing we learned in our lessons. She, who rarely went beyond the mile or so from home to the college, had gone to New York in her flat brown lace-ups with army surplus rucksack and vacuum flask, to wander alone around that city's meanest streets and to attend the American premiere of a musical by her elder son Andrew, called Jesus Christ Superstar. Even then, the name Lloyd Webber had a ring to it, though a slight smell of disapproval hung around the son's enterprise, just as a sad air of lost English idyll was associated with the music of Lloyd Webber senior, though none of us had heard a note. One week, Mrs Lloyd Webber missed a lesson.

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Lessons were filled with tales of life in the adjoining South Kensington mansion flats which were home for the Lloyd Webbers and their Bohemian ménage which included two lodgers, the pianist John Lill, of whom, being musically inclined, we had heard - he had won the Moscow Piano Competition - and someone called Tim Rice, of whom we had not plus the white pet mouse, soon devoured, the longer-lasting elderly mother, the professorial composer husband and the nearly adult sons, one of whom spent much time playing records at top volume while the other, nearly as loudly and certainly as competitively, played the cello.

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