I have always enjoyed Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music and whatever you think of him he has written some of the most fabulous and most popular music in the history of British Musical Theatre from ‘Evita’ through to ‘The Phantom Of The Opera’ however when ‘Aspects Of Love’ opened in the West End it opened to mixed reviews and has never enjoyed the success of some of his other shows.
I remember at the time Roger Moore (having just finished being James Bond) was due to appear in the show but pulled out at the eleventh hour and even though the show had Michael Ball in the cast it somehow just couldn’t be saved from bad reviews and the notion that it was ‘a flawed piece’.
I was at east 15 acting school at the time and for me (along with my other fellow students) ‘Aspects Of Love’ provided us with another good selection of songs for us to sing. I remember Mary Hammond, who was an extremely famous singing teacher at the time fresh from having taught Phillip Schofield to sing so that he could appear in ‘Joseph’ in the West End, coming to the school to give us a tutorial. When asking for a volunteer my friend Louisa got up and sang this song which was the first time that I had ever heard it. Needless to say I loved the song and have always enjoyed it ever since. It is a song about love and loss and getting on with the rest of your life….
Now listen to the song…
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