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Jeff Lynne's War Of The Worlds.

lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 7,939
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I've always been fascinated by this subject whether it be Orson Welles's original radio broadcast in 1938

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTvU9j3og5k

The 1953 film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL1BKHUOn_U

Or the 1978 Musical version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YwFvmnbj3E

Last night I watched on Sky Arts a live concert version, I was getting in to it when I noticed that the conductor wasn't ELO's Jeff Lynne! It was only after a 'Google' search that I realised for the last 40+ years I had actually thought it was Jeff Lynne and not Jeff Wayne whose musical it was. Even though it states quite clearly on the Album what Jeff it is I still believed it was Jeff Lynne's album.
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  • goldongoldon Member Posts: 9,061
    Covid killed them.......
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 169,670

    I did a double take when I saw the thread title as I'm a huge Jeff Lynne fan & had never heard that. ;)
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  • stokefcstokefc Member Posts: 7,830
    I always thought it was John Wayne's War of the worlds..pah
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  • pompeynicpompeynic Member Posts: 2,834
    My brother and I listened to the album many times growing up, Richard Burton’s deep melodious narration a perfect casting. A few years ago we went to the 02 to see the live version which was excellent. There was also the Tom Cruise film version .
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