The War of the Worlds
by Jeff Wayne
- Type: Album
- Released: 9 June 1978
- Label: CBS
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:44:00
- Community rating: 3.63/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Jeff Wayne's staggeringly ambitious musical adaptation of H.G. Wells's classic sci-fi novel is a profoundly epic, wildly eclectic progressive rock opera. 'The War of the Worlds' brilliantly pairs Richard Burton's gripping spoken-word narration with soaring symphonic rock, deeply atmospheric synthesizer motifs, and heavily rhythmic, disco-infused orchestrations.
Genres
Descriptors: science fiction, conceptual, progressive, aliens, theatrical
Tracklist
- The Eve of the War (feat. Richard Burton & Justin Hayward) (9:07)
- Horsell Common and the Heat Ray (11:35)
- The Artilleryman and the Fighting Machine (10:36)
- Forever Autumn (7:41)
- Thunder Child (6:06)
- The Red Weed (Part 1) (5:53)
- The Spirit of Man (11:37)
- The Red Weed (Part 2) (5:24)
- The Artilleryman Returns (1:27)
- Brave New World (12:14)
- Dead London - Part 1 (8:35)
- Epilogue, Pt. 1 (2:31)
- Epilogue, Pt. 2 (NASA) (1:50)
- The Spirit of Man 2009 (feat. Richard Burton, Jennifer Ellison & Shannon Noll) (4:16)
- The Eve Of The War & Forever Autumn Medley (feat. Richard Burton) (5:01)
Credits
- Jeff Wayne - primary artist, composed by, orchestrated by, conductor, producer, executive producer, keyboards, voice [dialogue]
- John Pasche - art direction, design [logo]
- Herbie Flowers - bass
- Charles Dubin - directed by [dramatic and narrative sections]
- Jerry Wayne - directed by [dramatic and narrative sections], voice [epilogue voices by]
- George Fenton - drum [tar], santoor [santur], zither
- Barry Morgan - drums
- Pest - effects [sfx]
- Chris Spedding - guitar
- Jo Partridge - guitar, voice actor [the heat ray]
- Ken Freeman - keyboards, synthesizer
- BilBo - lacquer cut by
- Bill Foster - mastered by
- Geoff Taylor - painting
- Michael Trim - painting
- Peter Goodfellow - painting
- Barry De Souza - percussion
- Ray Cooper - percussion
- Roy Jones - percussion
- Geoff Young - recorded by
- Laurence Diana - recorded by [assisted]
- David Essex - voice actor [artilleryman]
- Julie Covington - voice actor [beth]
- Richard Burton - voice actor [journalist]
- Phil Lynott - voice actor [the parson]
- H.G. Wells - written-by [adapted from]
- Gary Osborne - lyrics by, written-by, lyrics by, performer
- Justin Hayward - performer
- Paul Vigrass - written-by, lyrics by, performer
- Billy Lawrie - performer
- Chris Thompson - performer
- Doreen Wayne - voice [dialogue]