Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

She and her husband had arrived early for her lesson and it was while waiting that they chanced to hear him practising a piece from Handel's Atalanta namely the aria Care Selve. Crawford was not the first choice for the role of Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. Several months passed during which Lloyd Webber had already created a pitch video featuring his then-wife Sarah Brightman as the female lead Christine and British rocker Steve Harley as the Phantom singing the title song in the manner of a contemporary New Wave video.

He is best known for playing the hapless Frank Spencer in the popular 1970s British sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (which made him a household name) as well as for originating the title role in The Phantom of the Opera. Michael Crawford OBE (born 19 January 1942) is an English actor and singer.