The next day back at my desk in the office where I was training to become a solicitor the brief certainty I had enjoyed of a life in show business with Andrew Lloyd Webber had faded somewhat I would of course continue to keep an eye on the small ads in Melody Maker for groups needing a vocalist and would turn out a few more threechord songs tailored not to expose the limitations of my voice but it was still oddson that eventually I would stagger through my exams and wind up a respectable lawyer by the time I was twentyfive