Untitled - The War of the Worlds

THE
COMING
OF
THE MARTIANS
THE EARTH UNDER
THE MARTIANS
TRACK ONE.
Track six.
T EVE OF THE WAR
T RED WEED
Jeff Wayne featuring Liam Neeson
and Gary Barlow
Jeff Wayne
Track TWO.
HORSELL COMMON
AND THE HEAT RAY
Track seven.
T SPIRIT OF MAN
featuring Joss
Stone and Maverick Sabre
Jeff Wayne featuring Liam Neeson
Track THREE.
T ARTILLERYMAN AND
THE FIGHTING MACHINE
Track eight.
BRAVE NEW WORLD
Featuring Ricky Wilson
Jeff Wayne
Track FOUR.
FOREVER AUTUMN
Featuring Gary Barlow
Track nine.
DEAD LONDON
Featuring Liam Neeson
Track FIVE.
BONUS TRACK.
THUNDER CHILD
T SPIRIT OF MAN (RAGGAMUFFIN MIX)
Featuring Alex Clare
Featuring Joss Stone and Maverick Sabre
HORSELL COMMON.
PANIC IN THE STREET.
THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
The Journalist: No one would have believed, in the
last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs
were being watched by intelligences which inhabited the
timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed we
were being scrutinised, as someone with a microscope
studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of
water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on
other planets, and yet, across the gulf of space, minds
immeasurably superior to ours, regarded this Earth with
envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their
plans against us.
The Sung Thoughts of The Journalist:
“The chances of anything coming from Mars
are a million to one,” he said.
“The chances of anything coming from Mars,
are a million to one - but still they come!”
The Journalist: Next morning a crowd gathered
on the Common, hypnotised by the unscrewing of the
cylinder. Two feet of shining screw projected when
suddenly the lid fell off.
The Journalist: A few young men crept closer to the
pit. A tall funnel rose, then an invisible ray of heat leapt
from man to man and there was a bright glare, as each
was instantly turned to fire. Every tree and bush became
a mass of flames at the touch of this savage, unearthly
Heat Ray.
The Journalist: On Horsell Common, the
Martians continued hammering and stirring, sleepless,
indefatigable, at work upon the machines they were
making. Now and again a light, like the beam of a
warship’s searchlight, swept the common - and the Heat
Ray was ready to follow.
The Journalist: At dawn, a falling star with a trail
of green mist landed with a flash like summer lightning.
This was the second cylinder.
The Sung Thoughts of The Journalist:
The summer sun is fading as the year grows old,
And darker days are drawing near.
The winter winds will be much colder,
Now you’re not here.
I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky,
And one by one they disappear.
I wish that I was flying with them,
Now you’re not here.
Like the sun through the trees you came to love me.
Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away.
Through Autumn’s golden gown we used to kick our way,
You always loved this time of year.
Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now,
‘cause you’re not here,
‘cause you’re not here,
‘cause you’re not here.
Like the sun through the trees you came to love me
Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away.
A gentle rain falls softly on my weary eyes,
As if to hide a lonely tear.
My life will be Forever Autumn,
‘cause you’re not here,
‘cause you’re not here,
‘cause you’re not here.
MARTIANS: ULLA! ULLA! ULLA! ULLA!
The Voice of Humanity:
There were ships of shapes and sizes,
Scattered out along the bay.
And I thought I heard her calling,
As the steamer pulled away.
The invaders must have seen them,
As across the coast they filed.
Standing firm between them,
There lay Thunder Child.
Moving swiftly through the waters,
Cannons blazing as she came.
Brought a mighty metal warlord,
Crashing down in sheets of flame.
Sensing victory was nearing,
Thinking fortune must have smiled.
People started cheering,
“Come on Thunder Child”
“Come on Thunder Child”.
Calling, cheering,
“Come on Thunder Child”
“Come on Thunder Child”.
Lashing ropes and smashing timbers,
Flashing Heat Rays pierced the deck.
Dashing hopes for our deliverance,
As we watched the sinking wreck.
With the smoke of battle clearing,
Over graves in waves defiled.
Slowly disappearing,
Farewell Thunder Child!
Slowly disappearing,
Farewell Thunder Child!
Farewell Thunder Child!
Farewell Thunder…
Child. child, child, child, child!
MARTIANS: ULLA!
THUNDER CHILD.
THE RED WEED.
THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS
Parson Nathaniel:
Once there was a time when I believed without hesitation.
That the power of love and truth could conquer
all in the name of salvation.
Tell me what kind of weapon is love,
when it comes to the fight.
And just how much protection is truth
against all Satan’s might.
Beth:
Beth:
No Nathaniel.
Oh no, Nathaniel.
No, Nathaniel, no,
There must be more to life.
There has to be a way,
That we can restore to life,
The light that we have lost.
There must be something worth living for.
There must be something worth trying for.
Even some things worth dying for.
And if one man can stand tall.
There must be some hope for us all.
Somewhere, somewhere in The Spirit of Man.
Listen, do you hear them drawing near
in their search for the sinners?
Feeding on the power of our fear and the evil within us.
Incarnation of Satan’s creation of all that we dread.
When the demons arrive those alive
would be better off dead!
Beth:
There must be something worth living for.
There must be something worth trying for.
Even some things worth dying for.
And if one man can stand tall.
There must be hope for us all.
Somewhere, somewhere in The Spirit of Man.
No Nathaniel.
No Nathaniel.
Oh no Nathaniel.
(whisper) Nathaniel.
No Nathaniel.
No Nathaniel.
Oh no Nathaniel ,
Nathaniel
Beth:
Parson Nathaniel:
No, there is nothing!
Beth:
Parson Nathaniel:
I don’t believe it’s so.
Beth:
Even some things worth dying for,
Parson Nathaniel:
Name me one thing?
Beth:
If just one man could stand tall,
There would be some hope for us all…
Beth & Parson Nathaniel:
Somewhere,
Somewhere in The Spirit of Man
I’m not trying to tell you what to be,
Oh no, oh no, not me.
But if mankind is to survive,
The people left alive,
They’re gonna have to build this world anew,
Yes and we will have to be the chosen few.
Just think of all the poverty, the hatred and the lies,
And imagine the destruction of all that you despise.
Slowly from the ashes,
The phoenix will arise,
In a Brave New World,
With just a handful of men,
We’ll start all over again.
All over again, again, again.
All over again, again, again.
All over again, I’ve got a plan!
There must be something worth living for.
There must be something worth trying for.
Parson Nathaniel:
The Spirit of Beth:
The Artilleryman:
Now our domination of the Earth is fading fast,
And out of the confusion the chance has come at last.
To build a better future from the ashes of the past.
In a Brave New World,
Give me a handful of men,
We’ll start all over again.
Look! Man is born in freedom but he soon becomes a slave,
In cages of convention, from the cradle to the grave.
The weak fall by the wayside, but the strong will be saved.
In a Brave New World,
With just a handful of men.
We’ll start all over again.
I’m not trying to tell you what to be,
Oh no, oh no, not me.
But if mankind is to survive,
The people left alive,
They’re gonna have to build this world anew,
And it’s going to have to start with me and you. Yes!
THE SPIRIT OF MAN.
BRAVE NEW WORLD.
The Journalist: There were a dozen dead bodies in
MARTIAN: ULLA! UL-
The Journalist: In Bloomsbury, the stillness
The Journalist: Abruptly the sound ceased. Suddenly
the desolation, the solitude, became unendurable. While
that voice sounded, London had still seemed alive. But
suddenly there was a change, the passing of something,
I knew not what. Except now, all that remained was this
gaunt quiet.
the Euston Road, their outlines softened by the Black
Dust. All was still, houses locked and empty, shops closed
- but looters had helped themselves to wine and food,
and outside a jewellers’ some gold chains and a watch
were scattered on the pavement.
grew even more profound; an odd, unnerving feeling
of suspense, as though the destruction which had
annihilated the countryside, might at any moment strike
these gracious houses in the very heart of London, and
leave all in smoking ruins.
MARTIAN: ULLA!
The Journalist: I stopped, staring towards the
sound. It seemed as if that mighty desert of houses had
found a voice for its fear and solitude.
MARTIAN: ULLA!
The Journalist: The desolating cry worked upon
my mind. The wailing took possession of me. I was
intensely weary, footsore, hungry and thirsty. Why was
I wandering alone in the city of the dead? Why was
I alive, when London was lying in state in its black
shroud? I felt intolerably lonely, drifting from street
to empty street, drawn inexorably towards that cry.
MARTIAN: ULLA!
The Journalist: I saw over the trees glittering in the
sunlight, the hood of the Martian Fighting Machine from
which the howling came.
I crossed Regents Canal, now a spongy mass of dark red
vegetation, and pushed on towards Primrose Hill. There
stood a second Fighting Machine, upright, but as still as
the first.
t h e s p i r i t of m a n
( r a g g a m uff i n m i x )
Beth:
No Nathaniel
Oh no, Nathaniel
Parson Nathaniel:
Beth:
Somewhere in The Spirit
Somewhere, somewhere in The Spirit
Parson Nathaniel:
Listen, do you hear them drawing near
in their search for the sinners?
Feeding on the power of our fear and the evil within us.
Incarnation of Satan’s creation of all that we dread.
When the demons arrive those alive
would be better off dead!
Beth:
There must be something worth living for.
There must be something worth trying for.
Even some things worth dying for.
And if one man can stand tall.
There must be hope for us all.
Somewhere, somewhere in The Spirit of Man.
Somewhere, somewhere in The Spirit
Parson Nathaniel:
Once there was a time when I believed without hesitation.
That the power of love and truth could conquer
all in the name of salvation.
Tell me what kind of weapon is love,
when it comes to the fight.
And just how much protection is truth
against all Satan’s might.
Beth:
There must be something worth living for.
There must be something worth trying for.
Even some things worth dying for.
And if one man can stand tall.
There must be some hope for us all.
Somewhere, somewhere in The Spirit of Man.
Now darkness has descended on our land
And all your prayers cannot save us,
Like fools we’ve let the Devil take command
Of the souls that God gave us,
To the Altar of Evil like lambs to the slaughter we’re led,
When the demons arrive, the survivors will envy the dead.
Beth:
There must be something worth living for.
Parson Nathaniel:
No, there is nothing!
Beth:
There must be something worth trying for.
Parson Nathaniel:
I don’t believe it’s so.
Beth:
Even some things worth dying for,
Parson Nathaniel:
Name me one thing?
Beth:
If just one man could stand tall,
There would be some hope for us all…
Beth & Parson Nathaniel:
Somewhere,
Somewhere in The Spirit of Man
Beth:
Somewhere, somewhere in The Spirit
Somewhere, somewhere in The Spirit...
DEAD LONDON.
THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS.
In Autumn 1895, English novelist
HG Wells was enjoying an afternoon
stroll with his brother Frank in
Woking, Surrey. “Suppose some
beings from another planet were to
drop out of the sky suddenly,” mused
Frank, “and began laying about them
here; creatures of superior power
behaving like a drunken man-of-war’s
crew let loose amongst some gentle
savages.” This remark, Wells later
recalled, was the point of departure
for ‘The War of The Worlds’.
WELLS
Novelist / Teacher /
Historian / Journalist
HG set to thinking seriously about
the prospect of an invasion of Earth,
regarding it not as a preposterous
daydream, but as an entirely
feasible notion worthy of proper
consideration. Days later, during a
walk on Horsell Common, HG began
visualising the action properly. As
always, he was meticulous in this and
selected carefully where the Martians
would land, the initial battles would
occur and which places he would
have the invaders destroy. Indeed, the
first Martian cylinder lands close to
Wells’ home, near sandpits between
Horsell, Ottershaw and Woking –
‘the Thing that was to bring so much
struggle and calamity and death to the
Earth – and where the Martians’ deadly
Heat Ray is first unleashed.’
Wells was better qualified than most
novelists of the day to meet the challenges of
such a complicated and multifaceted concept,
having both a sound scientific background and
a keen understanding of astronomical matters.
He was always careful, especially in his fictional work, to
draw upon known science rather than speculative data.
At the time, HG was living with his second wife, Amy
Catherine Robbins, on Maybury Road, at the bottom of
Maybury Hill. There he planned the Martian invasion in
scrupulous detail; conceiving the Red Weed, the Handling
and Flying Machines, the iconic tripod Fighting Machines,
the Heat Ray weapon and canisters
of poisonous black smoke, and the
many and varied grotesque ways in
which to slaughter his countryman.
Wells took particular pleasure in
composing the more gruesome
parts, for in a letter sent to his friend
Elizabeth Healey, the relish with
which he planned such things is clear
to see: ‘I’m doing the dearest little
serial for Pearson’s new magazine,
in which I completely wreck and
destroy Woking – killing my
neighbours in painful and eccentric
ways – then proceed via Kingston
and Richmond to London, which I
sack, selecting South Kensington for
feats of peculiar atrocity.’
Wells mostly took his inspiration
for the human atrocity elements
of the story, from the treatment
of the Tasmanians at the hands
of the invading Europeans, in the
seventeenth century. Numerous
comparisons are made throughout
the text between the treatment
of Mankind under the Martians,
and that of Mankind upon its own
perceived inferior species.
Wells wrote ‘The War of The
Worlds’ amid
the
industrial
revolution, with Queen Victoria on
the throne and the British Empire at
the height of power. The technology of
the time was the steam engine and horsedrawn carts. Anything beyond that was... pure
science fiction.
‘The War of The Worlds’ first appeared in serialized
form in Pearson’s Magazine, monthly between April and
December 1897. In January 1898, it was published for
the first time as a book by William Heinemann. Since
then, it has never ceased to be out of print and has been
translated into countless languages. In 2014, interest in
Wells’ best known saga, shows no signs of faltering.
Born in Forest Hills, New York, Jeff
Wayne is an award winning composer,
arranger, conductor and producer
including for stage, film, TV, radio,
records, advertising and interactive
projects.
His writing and production credits
include: The Who, Ladysmith Black
Mambazo, Catherine Zeta Jones,
Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins,
Russell
Watson,
Rhydian,
Jason
Donovan, The London Symphony
Orchestra and Choir, Justin Hayward
(Moody Blues), David Essex, Phil Lynott
(Thin Lizzy), Human League, Orbital,
Todd Terry, N-Trance, Dario G, Hybrid,
Croatian piano virtuoso Maksim, Kerry
Ellis, Ricky Wilson (Kaiser Chiefs),
Marti Pellow (Wet Wet Wet), Joss
Stone, Maverick Sabre, Alex Clare,
Gary Barlow and Liam Neeson as well
as ITVs ‘The Big Match’, ‘The World of
Sport’ ,‘The World Cup, BBC TV’s 60
Minutes, TV-am/Good Morning Britain
- the UK’s first breakfast TV station),
and LBC, the UK’s first 24-hour radio
news station.
JEFF
of HAD (Hertfordshire Action on
Disability) and a Vice President of the
LTA Dan Maskell Trust.
WA YNE
Composer / Arranger /
Conductor / Producer
Jeff’s music has also been performed
to by jugglers, dancers, ice skaters,
magicians, fire-eaters, animals, ‘Ali G’ on
the 2005 MTV Awards plus Pendulum’s
performance on The Pyramid stage at
Glastonbury-2012 sharing top-of-the-bill
status with Beyonce as well as gymnasts at
the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Jeff has also created and published The Book
of Tennis and its 8-part TV series The Book of
Tennis Chronicles seen in many countries.
Tennis has been part of Jeff’s life from age 5, including
captaining and playing No 1 for his high school and college
teams. Today he captains Hertfordshire County Men, is a member
of the International Club of Great Britain, has won national
Veteran Singles and Doubles titles and represented Great Britain.
Pro-am tournaments include for Muscular Dystrophy, Olympic
Games and Save The Children, and is a long-standing Patron
Jeff and Geraldine live in Hertfordshire
and have four children: daughters
Anna-Marie - an actress and producer;
Jemma - an author and journalist; and
sons Zeb – a musician and DJ on the
international club scene; and Joab,
recently graduated from Birmingham
University in philosophy, and a former
touring tennis player.
First released in June, 1978, Jeff’s
musical interpretation of HG Wells
‘The War of The Worlds’ has achieved
international acclaim with over 15
million sales to date and is among the
longest running albums in UK chart
history, currently over 330 weeks.
It has enjoyed two international hit
singles – ‘The Eve of The War’ and
‘Forever Autumn’, won two UK Ivor
Novello Awards and the US Best
Recording in Science Fiction and
Fantasy (judged by Alfred Hitchcock,
George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg’).
In 2006, the arena tour - The War of The
Worlds – Alive on Stage! was launched,
with Jeff conducting a renowned cast.
Audiences and critics hailed it as one
of the most innovative marriages of
music, technology and live performance,
culminating with Jeff winning Classic
Rock’s Showman of The Year Award.
Alive! returned in 2007, 2009, 2010 and
2012 across the UK, Europe, Australia and New
Zealand, concluding with “The Final Arena Tour”
in 2014, with an exciting new direction to be
announced in 2015.
In 2006 a DVD filmed for Universal Pictures at London’s Wembley
Arena hit No 1 for 7 straight weeks and broadcast on Sky Arts.
A new DVD filmed at London’s 02 arena in December 2012 was
launched in December 2013 but pipped to the Xmas No1 Music
DVD slot first by Beyonce, then One Direction!
T HE P L AY ERS
T HE P L AY ERS (In Order of Appearance)
Liam Neeson is an award-winning
actor who has been internationally
recognized for his work in both
major studio blockbusters and
acclaimed independent features.
He has been honored for his
depictions of three very different
real-life figures. Neeson received
Academy Award®, Golden Globe
and BAFTA Award nominations
for his performance as Oskar
Schindler in Steven Spielberg’s
1993 Oscar®-winning Best Picture
“Schindler’s List.” Three years
later, he played the title role in
Neil Jordan’s biopic “Michael
Collins,” earning another Golden
Globe nomination and winning
an Evening Standard British
Film Award and the 1996 Venice
Film Festival’s Volpi Cup for his
impassioned portrayal of the Irish
Republican hero. In 2004, Neeson
starred as controversial sex
researcher Alfred Kinsey in Bill
Condon’s “Kinsey,” for which he
garnered his third Golden Globe
nomination and an Independent
Spirit Award nomination, and
won a Los Angeles Film Critics
Award.
N GEORGE
E EHERBERT,
SON
THE JOURNALIST
Neeson most recently appeared in
Seth MacFarlane’s comedy “A Million
Ways to Die in the West”, hit comedy
“Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,”
Scott Frank’s crime thriller “A Walk
Among the Tombstones,” director Jaume
Collet-Serra’s “Non-Stop” and in writer/
director Paul Haggis’ romantic drama “Third
Person.”
Among his upcoming projects in 2015 will be the muchanticipated “Tak3n” and “Run All Night” (directed by
Jaume Collet-Serra).
Liam also lent his voice to Open Road Film’s animated
film “The Nut Job,” directed by Peter Lepeniotis –
released in January 2014; and
the hugely successful “The Lego
Movie,” directed by Phil Lord –
released in February 2014; “The
Prophet” (May 2014) , based on
the classic Kahlil Gibran book;
and Millennium Entertainment’s
animated film “Khumba” directed
by Anthony Silverston – released
in 2013.
In 2012 Neeson reprised his role
as unstoppable CIA operative
Bryan Mills in “Taken 2,” the
successful follow-up to the 2008
hit crime thriller “Taken.” He also
starred in Peter Berg’s actioner
“Battleship,” was Zeus in “Wrath
of the Titans,” and starred in Joe
Carnahan’s thriller “The Grey,”
which topped the box office in
its opening weekend. His recent
film credits also include Jaume
Collet-Serra’s thriller “Unknown”;
Paul Haggis’ thriller “The Next
Three Days”; “The A-Team”; and
“Clash of the Titans”; as well as
the indie films “Chloe,” directed
by Atom Egoyan, and “After.
Life.” In July, he appeared in “The
Dark Night Rises” for director
Christopher Nolan,
In 2008 Neeson starred in Taken,
the runaway box-office hit. Neeson
also appeared in Disney’s box office
success The Chronicles of Narnia:
Prince Caspian where he reprised his
role as the voice of the Lion, Aslan, in
the sequel to the 2005 hit The Chronicles of
Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
He also co-starred that year in Batman Begins, directed by
Christopher Nolan.
Neeson made his Broadway debut in 1993 receiving a
Tony® Award nomination in the Roundabout Theater’s
revival of Eugene O’Neill’s 1921 drama Anna Christie.
GARY
BARLOW
THE SUNG THOUGHTS
OF THE JOURNALIST
After 20 years in the business, with
over 50 million records sold including:
eight No.1 albums, fourteen No.1 singles,
seven million concert tickets as well as
being the proud recipient of six Ivor Novello
Awards, Gary Barlow is regarded as one of
Britain’s most successful singer songwriters. Together
with Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and
Robbie Williams he is also a member of one of the
biggest British bands of all time - Take That.
Gary was recently named in the Queen’s birthday
honours list and was awarded an OBE for his huge
contribution to British music as
well as his significant charitable
endeavours. Gary also helped to organise
two of the most recent BBC Children in
Need concerts: 2009 and 2011 (the latter
of which helped bring in the most donations
ever for the charity). He also recently organised the
hugely successful Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert
outside Buckingham Palace, gathering together some
of the biggest names from the last 60 years to perform
including: Paul McCartney, Elton John, Robbie Williams,
Stevie Wonder, Tom Jones, Kylie Minogue, Shirley Bassey,
and Grace Jones.
T HE P L AY ERS
T HE P L AY ERS
RICKY
On a heady, breathless, euphoric
night at London’s Scala in June
2012, an excited and packed
crowd were there to celebrate
the magic of Alex Clare’s voice
and his now world-wide hit
single - ‘Too Close’.
WILSON
Used as the soundtrack for
Microsoft’s international Internet
Explorer 9 campaign, ‘Too Close’
was, of course, the reason a good
part of the crowd was there, but
it could have been so different an
outcome.
THE ARTILLERYMAN
ALEX
CLARE
THE VOICE OF HUMANITY
Released in April, 2011, it was
the second single from Alex’s
debut album, ‘The Lateness of
the Hour’, and both seemed fated
to be a footnote to a career that
burnt brightly but all too briefly.
Ricky Wilson (born Charles Richard
Wilson, 17 January 1978) is the
lead singer of English band Kaiser
Chiefs, a 5-piece band from Leeds
that have become a British cultural
institution over the course of the
past decade. With songs including the
Number 1 UK & European airplay hit
of 2007 ‘Ruby’, ‘I Predict A Riot’, ‘Never
Miss A Beat’ and ‘Oh My God’ amongst
their most successful.
Aside from the band, Ricky has hosted a
Radio show on BBC 6Music, co-presented
BBC TV’s T in the Park Festival coverage,
and was a guest on the longstanding UK TV show
Never Mind the Buzzcocks in 2005 and guest hosted the
show in 2006. Wilson has also been on the panel of the
BBC Television comedy series Shooting Stars in 2009.
Ricky will be performing in
2012/2013 the role of The
Artilleryman in Jeff Wayne’s
Musical Version of ‘The War of
The Worlds - Alive on Stage! The
New Generation’.
In summer 2012 Kaiser Chiefs
returned to the Main Stage of
Reading & Leeds Festivals for the
third time, playing before Foo Fighters.
Before the formation of the Kaiser Chiefs
in 1996, Wilson was a member of the band
Parva with his fellow band mates.
Wilson is well known for his dynamic nature on stage
and has stated himself that he becomes ‘over-excited’.
Ricky Wilson appears courtesy of Fiction Records
“Before ‘Lateness’ was even
released,” Alex remembers, “it
picked up quite a bit of critical
acclaim, and a lot of people
were starting to get into it.” You
sense there is a ‘but’ coming up,
and so it proves. “But radio just
wouldn’t touch it,” he continues.
Cue the inevitable soul-searching
and the running of a slide-rule
over Alex’s prospects. “We got to
the point of the final single release,
and before it came out, my label cut
loose and gave me the old boot out the
door – which is okay, I understand how
these things work.”
That last remark is very Alex – pragmatic
and grounded, he’s a man with a well-developed
hinterland, happy to whip up a gourmet dish (he
is a trained chef) or while away an afternoon on a
riverbank, fishing rod in hand. He is also notably
unwilling to wallow in the past.
Not that he’s had much time to
of late, and we have Microsoft to
thank for that.
Alex says, “I kind of knew the
whole Microsoft thing was
kicking off. The people making
the advert were trying to get in
touch, they’d tried to get through
to the label but hadn’t got a
response so they started emailing
me, through my publisher. And
of course, I went, ‘Yeah, go for
it’; but I never thought anything
would come of it. But I was
wrong – thankfully. I was busy
studying at the yeshiva, and
suddenly, ‘Too Close’ went to No
1 in Germany – which was nice!
– and then No 4 in the UK, and
it’s reached the Top 20 in the US.
So, yeah, happy days.
For now, he acknowledges,
the success of ‘Too Close’ –
and the subsequent, belated
breakthrough of ‘The Lateness
of the Hour’ – means that he is
still touring and promoting songs
released more than a year ago
(and recorded long before that).
Alex’s new material is, he says,
“pretty different, and a lot less
negative – everything seems to be a
lot more optimistic. But then, I’ve got a
lot to be thankful for.” The mesmerising
collision on ‘The Lateness of the Hour’
between Diplo & Switch’s alternately brutal
and fragile dubstep soundscapes and Alex’s once
heard, never forgotten, pin-you-to-your-seat blue-eyedsoul holler and croon may have been a one-off (and what
a one-off). If he has had to wait for the world to play catchup, well, he says, so be it. “That’s life. And it goes on.”
Alex Clare appears courtesy of Island Records
T HE P L AY ERS
Joss Stone has been obsessed
with soul music since she was a
little girl. By the time she was
in her early teens she had begun
to intuitively hone her now
trademark
gravelly-but-lustrous
vocals by singing along to Aretha
Franklin’s Greatest Hits. She began
pursuing a singing career at 13,
secured a record deal at 15, and
recorded her star-making debut
album, The Soul Sessions, which
was released in 2003. 10 years
on from those stunning debut
sessions, with a recent release of
The Soul Sessions Volume 2.
T HE P L AY ERS
JOSS
STONE
BETH, PARSON NATHANIEL’S WIFE
Following her critically acclaimed
arrival on the music scene, which
preceded the plethora of soulinspired female artists that came
along in her wake, things took off
for Joss in an enormous way. Her
second record, 2004’s Mind Body
& Soul capitalised on The Soul
Sessions’ commercial momentum
and critical adoration and earned
Stone three Grammy nominations,
including one for Best New Artist.
It also spawned a self-penned UK
Top 10 single, ‘You Had Me’, and
earned her Two Brit Awards that
same year. Her third album, 2007’s
Introducing Joss Stone, was a more
independent, less packaged effort,
on which Joss further showcased her
songwriting abilities, and revealed the
singer had truly been embraced by the
American audience when it crashed into
the US charts at No.2, marking the highest
debut ever for a female British solo artist on
the Billboard charts.
In her short young life and already long career, Joss has
performed onstage with the likes of James Brown, Gladys
Knight, Solomon Burke, Blondie, Smokey Robinson and
Melissa Etheridge. With over 11 million album sales to
date, she has also contributed to albums by Jeff Beck
and Ringo Starr, played the
Super Bowl pre-game show,
performed on the Grammy’s - and
indeed won a Grammy herself!
In her twenty-five years she’s
participated more moments of
absolute musical wonder than
most people can hope for in
an entire lifetime. And she’s
approached it all with a sense of
independence and joie de vivre.
Stone has always been a bit of
a rebel, whether she’s dancing
barefoot onstage or dyeing her
hair various colors or speaking
out on issues she’s passionate
about, part of what her fans
love about her is that she’s a
free-spirit, following her own
instincts at all times.
Joss’ final album with former
label EMI was 2009’s Colour
Me Free, which she recorded
in a week in her Mum’s club in
Devon. That was followed in
2011 by LP1, her first release on
her own newly founded label,
Stone’d Records, a collaboration
with Dave Stewart, on which Joss
went for a similar come-whatmay approach, but with a little
more sophistication. In amongst
that, she was also recording songs
for an album with Super Heavy, a
side project featuring a bunch of
legendary musicians including Mick
Jagger, Damian Marley, A.R. Rahman
and Dave Stewart.
Despite some of the dramas that have
followed or beset Stone in her short life so far,
it is this approach to music - intuitive and freeform
– merged with the backdrop of nearly a decade of hardearned experience in the industry – that characterises the
Stone mindset. If she wants to do something badly enough
she gets it done, no matter what the obstacles – but only
if she’s having fun along the way.
MAVERICK
SABRE
London-born, Irish-raised singersongwriter Maverick Sabre has
his name ringing round the world
right now, and rightly so.
Festival,
collaborated
with
Professor Green on the club
smash Jungle (NME Award for
Best Dance-floor Filler) and with
Chase & Status on Fire In Your
Eyes Again. It was no surprise
that Sabre’s debut EP reached
number 2 in the iTunes charts.
PARSON NATHANIEL
First championed by BBC Radio
1 & 1Xtra’s MistaJam as one of
his ‘Ones to Watch for 2011’, and
subsequently described by BBC
Radio 1’s Huw Stephens as the
‘male Amy Winehouse’, Maverick
Sabre’s gritty yet soulful voice is
drawing audiences in and leaving
them hooked. From Hackney
to Wexford and back again,
Maverick has silenced crowds
with his catchy lamenting socialpolitical content.
Just out of his teens, this young
rising star is generating a huge
buzz and has been tipped by
Hot Press as ‘the Irish newcomer
who will give the established
artists
serious
competition’.
His single Let Me Go, released
on 25th July 2011, has been
playlisted on all the UK’s top Radio
Stations including Radio 1, Kiss,
Xfm and Capital. The music video
for the single hit well over 1 million
views in under 3 weeks and left people
impatiently waiting for the debut album,
which was released in October 2011 by
Mercury Records.
As well as writing material with the hottest producers and
laying strong foundations for what is sure to be a hugely
successful future, Maverick has been featured on Later
With Jools Holland, live on BBC2 from Glastonbury
Rapidly rising from strength
to strength, Maverick has been
busy touring alongside chart
toppers Plan B, Cee Lo Green,
Snoop Dogg and The Script as
well as collaborators Chase &
Status. The summer of 2011
was
sizzling
for
Maverick,
as having signed to premier
booking agency William Morris,
the British festival circuit was
packed full with a healthy dose
of this young protégé.
He also featured on a remix of
his song ‘I Need’ with rappers
Chipmunk and Benny Banks. He
then featured on the track ‘We’ll
Never Know’ alongside rappers
Akala and Logic. On Sunday 29th
January 2012, he appeared on
the Sunday Night Sessions segment of
The Late Show with Joanne Good on BBC
London 94.9.
On 18th and 19th August 2012, Maverick
appeared on the 4Music stage at V Festival in
Staffordshire. Shortly thereafter, he announced
a headline UK tour for September-October 2012,
featuring special guest support Mercury Prize winner Ms
Dynamite, as well as Daley and Rudimental.
Maverick Sabre appears courtesy of Mercury Records
T HE P L AY ERS
DOREEN
JERRY
WAYNE
WAYNE
T VOICES OF NASA CONTROL
SCRIPT WRITER / AUTHOR
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Born Jerome Marvin Krauth in
1916 in Buffalo, New York, the
young Jerome survived Polio and
Diphtheria before he reached
high school – the experience
made him determined to not only
become physically strong, but to
live life to its full.
At university he studied Dentistry
and played tennis to national
standard, before leaving for New
York to follow his dreams of the
stage.
In 1939 he secured a slot singing
on national radio, changed his
name to the more listener-friendly
Jerry Wayne and started a career
that saw him score three U.S.
Number 1s and write over 150 songs
for himself and other artists.
He also fronted the popular Bobby
Byrne Big Band, head-lined across the
USA in vaudeville & major night-clubs,
and followed Frank Sinatra on the popular
radio program The Lucky Strike Hit Parade as
its resident male singer. During WW2 he received
commendations for entertaining the US forces.
In 1953 he landed the part of romantic gambler Sky
Masterson in the original West End production of ‘Guys
and Dolls’ at the Coliseum
Theatre. He loved England and
remained there with wife Cathie
and son Jeff for over four years,
appearing in musicals, films,
television shows, variety, and
making recordings.
In the sixties, he turned his
hand to theatrical producing
including his musical adaptation
of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Tale of Two
Cities’ – with son Jeff composing
the score with Jerry writing the
lyrics. This set in motion a fatherson collaboration that led to ‘The
War of The Worlds’, of which
Jerry was Executive Producer.
Jerry also became a published
author of several books and
continued to work on various
projects, including developing with
Jeff a third musical work (to follow
‘The War of The Worlds’ and ‘Spartacus’),
as well as writing and composing his own
theatrical musical, Staying Young, when he
fell ill with prostate cancer and passed away in
England on 15 September 1996.
He lived to see and enjoy Jeff and wife Geraldine’s four
children – Anna-Marie, Jemma, Zeb and Joab, whom he
loved very much.
Doreen Wayne was born in Hull,
and moved to London in 1964
opening a printing business –
Supatype – on the then famous
Carnaby Street.
Her first novel, The Love Strike,
was set in Hull, where she was
born and was followed by the
best-seller, Love Is A Well Raped
Word in 1968.
Supatype specialised in printing
scripts for movies and the
theatre.
She also wrote for newspapers,
magazines and television as well
as adapting the Charles Dickens’
novel ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ for
the West End musical Two Cities.
It played the Palace Theatre,
winning for its star, Edward
Woodward, the Evening Standard
award for Best Male Performance In
A Musical for 1968.
But she also began writing
books, the career she really had
always wanted.
Soon after opening, a new customer
showed up at the doors of Supatype
– Jerry Wayne, who needed a script
printed urgently for a theatrical
production soon to go into rehearsal. Soon
they started seeing each other.
They shared the love of books, theatre, music and
tennis, and were married on USA Independence Day, 4th
July 1966. Along the way Doreen sold Supatype to Jeff
Wayne’s company and she became a full time writer.
One of her most enjoyable assignments
was adapting HG Wells’ classic science
fiction story ‘The War of The Worlds’
collaborating with Jerry and Jeff Wayne.
After a long illness with Breast Cancer, Doreen passed
away in 1981, while working with Jerry and Jeff again on
another musical work, Spartacus.
T NEW GENERATION PRODUCTION TEAM
GARY OSBORNE
JEFF WAYNE
Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Keyboards and Producer
GAËTAN SCHURRER
Recording, Programming, Keyboards and
Additional Drums Production
THOMAS GANDEY
Mixing, Programming,
and Keyboards
Lyricist on Thunder Child,
The Spirit of Man and
Brave New World
Co-lyricist on Forever Autumn
Gary went into the music business at
15 and has worked as a songwriter,
producer, broadcaster and session
singer. After his first UK hit, Kiki
Dee’s ‘Amoureuse’, Gary contributed
lyrics and backing vocals to 5 Elton
John albums including hit singles
‘Blue Eyes’, ‘Part Time Love’ and ‘Little
Jeannie’. He’s had songs recorded
by artists as diverse as Alice Cooper,
Wilson Pickett and The Righteous
Brothers and reached the UK top 3
in 2006 with ‘Checkin’ It Out’ by Lil’
Chris.
Chairman of BASCA’s Songwriters
Executive, he also chairs The Ivor
Novello Awards committee. Gary and
his late dad, Musical Director Tony
Osborne, are the only father and son to
have both won Ivors.
TOM WOODSTOCK
Programming, Recording,
Keyboards, Guitars,
Backing Vocals and Heat Ray
CAL OWEN
Recording, Editing and
Backing Vocals
ZEB WAYNE
Keyboards, NewGen Sounds and
Creative Consultant
PAUL VIGRASS
Co-lyricist on Forever Autumn
Paul first recorded as a solo artiste
with RCA, fronted several bands
including Edison Lighthouse,
Matchbox, and Gigolo, touring and
achieved hit records around the
world including two internationally
acclaimed albums as duo ‘Vigrass and
Osborne’ with No.2 in the UK for the
original version of ‘Forever Autumn’
and No. 1 in many territories. Other
collaborations include Peter Wood
and Jake Hooker.
In 1980 the success of ‘The War of
The Worlds’ meant he was re-united
with Jeff to co-write the title track
and single for Justin Hayward’s solo
album; ‘Night Flight’.
Currently working on an album
of new songs to his lyrics, put to
compositions by writers, David
Benoit, Russ Freeman, and Stefano di
Battista and others. An actor in TV
and Films, appearing in ‘Pirates of
the Caribbean’, ‘Wrath of the Titans’
and ‘Anna Karenina’, and developing
film projects, when he can he’ll be at
the beach.
DAMIAN COLLIER
Executive Producer of
The New Generation
Damian has been involved with
‘The War of The Worlds’ since 1998,
including as a Producer of the
Arena Tours, and he plans to be
involved with ‘The New Generation’
productions
until 2098.
A producer and entrepreneur, he
graduated with a First Class degree
in Law, then practiced at two of
the world’s leading law firms, in
their UK, US, European and Asian
offices. He also worked at Goldman
Sachs. Damian is currently Managing
Director of The JWM Group
(jeffwaynemusic.com) and Founder &
CEO of Viral Spiral (viralspiralgroup.
com).
T CREATIVE TEAM
Composed, Arranged, Conducted and Produced by Jeff Wayne
Lyrics by Gary Osborne (Thunder Child, The Spirit of Man and Brave New World)
Forever Autumn by Paul Vigrass and Gary Osborne
The Eve of The War by Jeff Wayne
Adapted from the H.G. Wells Novel by Doreen Wayne
Executive Producer - Jerry Wayne
The Sound Effects Maker - Geraldine Wayne
Recorded and Mixed at OllieWood Recording Studios, Hertfordshire, England (11th January 2011 – 12th August 2012)
except Liam Neeson, recorded at The Audio Department, New York, USA (10th – 13th April 2011)
Recorded by Gaëtan Schurrer and Tom Woodstock
Mixed by Thomas Gandey
Programmed by Gaëtan Schurrer, Tom Woodstock and Thomas Gandey
Additional Drums Production by Gaëtan Schurrer
Mastered by Emily Lazar & Joe LaPorta at The Lodge, New York
Art Direction and Images by Fluid based on original paintings by Peter Goodfellow, Geoff Taylor and Michael Trim
New Generation Logo Design by fluidesign.co.uk based on the original by John Pasche
Production Associate - Lauren Plosker
T MUSICIANS
Dulcimer - Laurie Wisefield and Tom Woodstock
Keyboards - Jeff Wayne, Paul Hart (The Red Weed)
Additional Keyboards - Thomas Gandey, Gaëtan Schurrer
and Tom Woodstock
Synthesisers - Ken Freeman and Jeff Wayne
Drums – Gordy Marshall
Guitars - Chris Spedding, Laurie Wisefield and Tom Woodstock
Guitar (ULLAs) - Jo Partridge
Bass Guitar and Swanee Whistle - Herbie Flowers
Mandolin - Laurie Wisefield
Percussion - Ray Cooper
Tuned Percussion - Roy Jones
Tar, Santur, Autoharp - George Fenton
Strings - The Littlechap Strings
Solo Cello – Emma McCoy
… and Tom Woodstock as The Heat Ray
T ACCOMPANYING VOCALISTS
Billy Lawrie, Gary Osborne, Cal Owen, Chris Thompson, Paul Vigrass, Gary Barlow and Tom Woodstock
Martian Voices - Lewis MacLeod
About The Spirit of Man (Raggamuffin Mix)
No matter what faith or ideology one follows, or wherever
the plot of land in which we live on is – love and hate,
good and evil seem to always be joined at the hip. And no
matter where in history you wish to look, nothing seems
to ever change.
Gary Osborne’s lyrics have always stirred me, capturing those
extremes – in our case, originally needed to move HG Wells’
Victorian tale along at perhaps its darkest hour. But
away from The War of The Worlds, those lyrics could be
from ANY time, including, sadly, our world of today.
Parson Nathaniel – a man of the cloth, gave up all hope.
His wife Beth tried to restore it…
Jeff Wayne, Autumn 2014
To my father, this re-rendering of his original idea.