Wednesday, October 18, 2023

♫♪♫ The War Of The World's..... Jeff Wayne's Musical Version... ♫♪♫

 

 

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11 comments:

  1. Smoked a couple of round bales worth listening to this.

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  2. Right up there with Rick Wakeman’s Journey to the Center of the Earth

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  3. Great album with Richard Burton's rich voice narrating. The Martian attack is the best part. The life under the Martians is so-so.

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  4. It's a huge achievement -- and never mind that it's not absolutely faithful to Wells's novel! I wish Jeff Wayne had done more such works. There are a lot of classic SF novels that could use that kind of "sub-creation."

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  5. Bear Claw laughs remembering the story heard as a kid from one of the Mississippi ancestors about listening to the radio grabbing a bottle of booze and hiding out in the swamps

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  6. " The chances of anything coming from Mars is a million to one..."

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  7. I had a copy of a copy where the tape ran out before the end when I was 8 or so. God I loved it. Had the fanfare from Brave New World as my ringtone forever.

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  8. Phil Lynott, Julie Covington and Herbie Flowers at 52:00.

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  9. In 2012 Jeff did a New Generation version with Liam Neeson taking the place of Burton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne%27s_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds_%E2%80%93_The_New_Generation

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  10. I've always been a Moody Blues fan, so when a buddy told me Justin Hayward had a big part on the album, I went out and bought it. Amazing. Since then I've gotten it on CD and then picked up the filmed version on DVD. At a Moodies concert in Indiana, after a short intermission, Justin Hayward came out alone and sang Forever Autumn. Blew me away, since it's not a Moodies song.

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  11. I thought everyone on the planet had forgotten about this, I still have the vinyl and the book that came with it. Glad to know I'm not alone...

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