Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds

[Deuce Bigolo]

I actually preferred his collaborations with the female singer(maggie whats her name) better

Family Man & Moonlight Shadow

I think his music when compared to the classical greats probably comes up short but then it should never be compared

Different eras etc etc

[Deuce Bigolo]

As hit or miss as Jean Michael Jarres Oxygene

Still remember the video that accompanied it

Something to send you spinning if you'd had one too many

[steve56]

Maggie Riley wasnt she in Cado Belle?Deuce Bigolo wrote:

> I actually preferred his collaborations with the female
> singer(maggie whats her name) better
>
> Family Man & Moonlight Shadow
>
> I think his music when compared to the classical greats
> probably comes up short but then it should never be compared
>
> Different eras etc etc

[steve56]

In 1970 was a member of the band Kevin Ayers And The Whole World.Alice In Blunderland wrote:

> I have never even thought about him in a classical sense, more
> as a pop/rock performer.
>
>
> Deuce Bigolo wrote:
>
> > I actually preferred his collaborations with the female
> > singer(maggie whats her name) better
> >
> > Family Man & Moonlight Shadow
> >
> > I think his music when compared to the classical greats
> > probably comes up short but then it should never be compared
> >
> > Different eras etc etc

[steve56]

Orson Welles version.Deuce Bigolo wrote:

> Yes the original radio broadcast was so good that the listening
> public thought it was for real
>
> Enough said

[KennySue]

Herbie Flowers played Bass on Jeff Waynes's War of the World. He's most well know work is on Lou Reed's Transformer album, especially Walk on the Wild Side. (Major Tenth Interval - Brilliant!)


Also, Phil Lynot (of Thin Lizzy)- another great bass player* - was Nathaniel, the Parson. "No, Nathaniel, No! There's must be something worth living for!"

*Guess what instrument I play.


And the Kiwi connection: Chris Thompson - born in England but raised in New Zealand before returning to the land of his birth and joining Manfred Mann's Earth Band.


Anyroad, unlike Orson Welle's version or either of the Hollywood movie versions at least Jeff Wayne's adaptation is set in England - not America! And it's got the Thunder Child in it! It's not War of the Worlds without the HMS Thunder Child!

"Farewell Thunder Child!"

And it's got H.G. Wells's actual words in it. He was quite a good writer and people tend to concentrate on his scientific and social themes and ideas and ignore his writing - the words he chooses to use and what he does with them. The rhythm of his writing. The poetry of his prose.

"And this was no disciplined march; it was a stampede--a stampede gigantic and terrible--without order and without a goal, six million people unarmed and unprovisioned, driving headlong. It was the beginning of the rout of civilisation, of the massacre of mankind."

War of the Worlds @ Project Gutenberg:

[steve56]

Flowers was in T Rex for years made a crap single in 77 called jubilee.