Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds

[Ben]

Anybody else like this?

Youtube video

[Mrluvaluva]

I love War Of The Worlds. Richard Burton does a great job of narration and it has some great music (if we are talking the musical version which I think we are).

[Pyramid*]

Talk about a blast from the past!

I remember reading the book when I was a kid!

[Shaun]

My best friend used to play this a lot. It's excellent. I want to read the book, I liked the 2005 film.

[Ben]

I never watched the 2005 film, I've seen the original, that was pretty good and the book was also good.

[Kizzy]

Used to play this to death in my grungy gothy days as a teen *sigh*

[*Kate*]

The Planet Suite

[Sticks]

I have the complete album on a two CD set

[Mrluvaluva]

Originally Posted by Sticks

I have the complete album on a two CD set

I got the 30th anniversary edition.

I would love to go and see "War of The Worlds - Alive on Stage!" in December. I'm thinking of getting tickets.

[Mrluvaluva]

On the subject, someone may find this of interest, or not :

Orson Welles - War Of The Worlds - Original Full Radio Broadcast from 1938

Youtube video

"The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds.

The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated "news bulletins", which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a 'sustaining show' (it ran without commercial breaks), thus adding to the program's quality of realism. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated. In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage. The program's news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast, but the episode secured Orson Welles' fame."