Composer and lyricist, born in London, England, UK. In 1959, Lock Up Your Daughters ended the US domination of the musical theatre in London. He followed it with Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'be (1959), Oliver (1960, adapted from Dickens's Oliver Twist), and Blitz! (1962), a cavalcade of East End life during the Second World War. Maggie May, a between-the-wars story of a Liverpool prostitute, followed in 1964, but his Robin Hood musical, Twang! (1965), was a flop, as was La Strada (1969).