Andrew Lloyd Webber: Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?

The question

Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Composer of musical theatre

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I regret not buying an Andy Warhol “Marilyn” for $15,000.

Andy Warhol, Interview Magazine, 5 March 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 212 →

Omid Djalili British stand-up comedian and actor

The concept of New Labour.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗

Meghan Trainor American singer-songwriter

At the beginning of 2019, I brought my entire family with me on my honeymoon to Bora Bora.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2024 source ↗

Busta Rhymes American rapper

I bought myself a diamond pinky ring for two million dollars.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 December 2020 source ↗

Shappi Khorsandi Iranian-born British comedian

A walk-on part for my mum in Les Misérables. It was in a charity auction. She always dreamed of being in a West End show.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2017 source ↗

More from Andrew Lloyd Webber

View profile →

Question What is the best advice you have ever received? Time & hindsight

Harold Prince went to see it and he wrote me a letter saying don’t be discouraged about this because actually there’s some quite good songs in here. But he also said something which stayed with me all my life, which is that you can’t listen to a musical if you can’t look at it, by which he was actually saying that the designs for Jeeves were absolutely hideous.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, New York City, 13 September 2019 source ↗