![]() The album art is also brilliantly rendered. It will reward repeated listening as it is rich in detail and depth. If you are not aware of this work or have not experienced it then do yourself a favour and get yourself a copy. ![]() It, like the book, is a true classic featuring Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues, Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy and of course the incomparable voice of Richard Burton as the narrator. When CDs first came out this was one album I had to get. Wells was a visionary and Wayne’s rendition of his story in the concept album is no less visionary. They are spoken by Richard Burton who lends to them a gravitas which has the effect of chilling the listener to the bone. These words are an adaptation of the first paragraph of the HG Wells novel of the same name upon which Jeff Wayne based his superb concept album. 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…” ![]() ![]() Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. No-one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. ![]() “No-one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. ![]()
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