{"id":16844,"date":"2010-06-05T10:16:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=16844"},"modified":"2010-06-05T00:35:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T07:35:50","slug":"the-war-of-the-worlds-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/16844","title":{"rendered":"The War of the Worlds, 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jeff Wayne’s 1978 progressive rock disco show tunes concept album War of the Worlds<\/a><\/em> is both a masterpiece and a hairbrained idea. <\/p>\n

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I have the original two LP set, illustrated with large paintings by artists Peter Goodfellow, Geoff Taylor and Michael Trim (pictured) – showing a Victorian world gone mad. Richard Burton narrates the invasion, with text from H.G. Wells original novel.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\nJeff Wayne: Eve of the War
\nWar of the Worlds live performance, 2007<\/em><\/p>\n

The album wasn’t too popular in the US, but did incredibly well overseas. Also involved in the production was Justin Hayward (of The Moody Blues<\/a>), Phil Lynott, Julie Covington, David Essex and Chris Thompson.<\/p>\n

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The orchestration – especially the vocoder-made voices of the Martians – stays in your head. In the last decade, two remix albums were were released [here’s the first one<\/a>, the second<\/a>], following a 1998 computer game version.<\/a> And an animated film is in progress, concert tour, 7-disc box set,<\/a> et cetera.<\/em><\/p>\n

For more about this odd find, visit the official site here.<\/a> Detailed Wiki here.<\/a> And MySpace.<\/a><\/p>\n

The whole thing is quite mind blowing.<\/p>\n

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\nJeff Wayne: Forever Autumn<\/a>
\nWar of the Worlds live performance, 2007<\/em>
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