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Back in the late 70s, Jeff Wayne organized the production of a musical version of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds. He got Richard Burton to voice the lead character and Justin Hayward (of the Moody Blues) to perform on it, and Elton John's lyricist wrote most of the music.
It did not suck.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kevinelong introduced me to it in 1986, and I've been inflicting it on people ever since.
In 1995, owing to the vagaries of UK copyright law, Sony rereleased the album, including some additional remixes and radio versions of tracks, to maintain the existing copyright. Copyright laws that require that the rightsholder actually continue to deliver some ongoing social benefit in return for the privelige of government sanctioned protection of intellectual property rights rock. I narrowly missed obtaining a copy of the special edition promotional EP that Sony released at the time, sadly.
Earlier this year, I noted that someone had pulled together an actual musical stage production of the piece, and seriously contemplated going to Britain to see it. Unfortunately, it was close to closing in London when I found out about it, and seeing it outside of London didn't seem like it would really be the same.
However, it appears that they also took video, and will be releasing a dvd of it in November.
The trailer is here.
Baby.
Just wow.
I am looking forward to it with antici-
It did not suck.
kevinelong introduced me to it in 1986, and I've been inflicting it on people ever since.In 1995, owing to the vagaries of UK copyright law, Sony rereleased the album, including some additional remixes and radio versions of tracks, to maintain the existing copyright. Copyright laws that require that the rightsholder actually continue to deliver some ongoing social benefit in return for the privelige of government sanctioned protection of intellectual property rights rock. I narrowly missed obtaining a copy of the special edition promotional EP that Sony released at the time, sadly.
Earlier this year, I noted that someone had pulled together an actual musical stage production of the piece, and seriously contemplated going to Britain to see it. Unfortunately, it was close to closing in London when I found out about it, and seeing it outside of London didn't seem like it would really be the same.
However, it appears that they also took video, and will be releasing a dvd of it in November.
The trailer is here.
Baby.
Just wow.
I am looking forward to it with antici-
