I'm too young to remember what this was all about, the cold war maybe?
www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-2890188/Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-crush-new-star-Cats.html
Rice-Davies, a friend and flatmate of Christine Keeler, contacted Lloyd Webber when he began to write the musical Stephen Ward, about her landlord and friend of that name, the man at the centre of the furore who they both believed to have been the victim of an Establishment cover-up.
Webber has used his seat in the House of Lords to call for the court transcript and witness statements related to Stephen Ward’s trial to be released and for a posthumous pardon.
‘There is something in those papers that they do not want us to see,’ he says.
‘I have been told by somebody who knows somebody who has seen it – a very senior ex-member of the civil service – that the content is explosive.
'What could there possibly be that would need to be kept under wraps until 2046? It gives rise to enormous, rather unhealthy speculation.’
Webber says he has lost a friend in Rice-Davies: ‘We had a lot of fun together. Mandy was very impressive, she really was not what you might think.
'I would have written that show five times over for the privilege of meeting Mandy and discovering what a brilliant, intelligent woman she was,’ he says, talking about her publicly for the first time since her death from cancer.
‘I think Mandy knew a lot more than she would ever tell anybody.
'There is something that nobody wants us to know about.’