Critics hated the Royal Academy’s show of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s art. One wrote: “Really useless. Why can’t the man keep his private collection of saccharine Victorian art private?” But more than 226,000 people – an average of 2,693 a day – paid to see his treasures. The doorstep-sized catalogue (£15 paperback, £35 hardback) had to be reprinted three times.” The show turns out to be one of the RA’s most popular exhibitions of the past decade.