Andrew Lloyd Webber has won a court battle with a dancer turned songwriter who claimed to have written the theme to the musical Cats.
The composer had faced a claim from Philip Christian over the authorship of the words and melody that eventually became Memory, the main theme from the West End and Broadway 1981 hit production.
Christian, 68, had told a court that a recording of a song that he had written was heard by a member of one of Lloyd Webber’s other shows, who then recited it to the composer in the run-up to the production of Cats.
In his breach of copyright claim against Lloyd Webber and the lyricist Sir Trevor Nunn, Christian argued that he owned the
