Started his career as a suit salesman at Simpson's, a department store in London's Piccadilly.
Subject of a persistent urban legend which claims that he was invited to a dinner party at the home of Sharon Tate on the night that she was murdered by followers of Charles Manson. There seems to be no truth in this myth, as Lloyd was performing at a live show in New York during the week of Tate's death, and there is no evidence to suggest that he had ever met Tate or her husband, Roman Polanski, while she was still living.