Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of The Worlds

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It featured a libretto by Gary Osborne and a story combining powerful themes of oppression, desperation, love and death. Wayne announced a new Musical Version of The War of the Worlds album to be released in June 2012 titled Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – The New Generation.

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The tour premiered at Nottingham's Motorpoint Arena on 23 March and once again starred Justin Hayward as the sung thoughts of The Journalist. After The War of the Worlds, Wayne continued to compose and produce music, such as the music for the 1979 television film The Knowledge and the Who's movie McVicar released in 1980. Wayne's first television series, The Book of Tennis Chronicles, was broadcast worldwide in 2005 and distributed by Fox Sports. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.In 1970 or 1971, he made a single, "The Bittermen Theme", featuring Chris Spedding on guitar, a version of which was used in a television commercial for Ansells bitter. Wayne's two-disc composition sold millions of copies around the world [5] and was the 40th best selling album of all time in the UK by 2009. The game also featured computer-generated visualisations of numerous scenes from the album – an idea Wayne would later revisit. Jeff Wayne spent four years of his childhood in the UK when his father played romantic gambler Sky Masterson in the original West End musical production of Guys and Dolls. After completing his journalism degree he switched to music, playing keyboards briefly with the Sandpipers.

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Universal Pictures released a DVD of the show, filmed at Wembley Arena using 23 high definition cameras and directed by David Mallet. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. A keen player and follower of tennis throughout his life, Wayne remains involved with the sport; he has won the British National Indoor Veterans singles and doubles titles, and the National Clay Court doubles.In 1978, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds was released, achieving international success. Wayne composed music for the Fry's Turkish Delight advertisement in 1981, the theme for Good Morning Britain in 1982 on TV-am, and music for the 1984 album Beyond the Planets, [1] Kevin Peek and Rick Wakeman's progressive rock recording of Holst's orchestral suite. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. It features well-known tennis players and events, set against events in world history from 1877 to 2005. Wayne was involved in producing Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds in 1998, a computer game that included 45 minutes of music from his Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, re-scored and remixed in an electronica style with techno beats.