CD1
THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS:
01 - Eve of the War.mp3
02 - Horsell Common and the Heat Ray.mp3
03 - The Artilleryman and the Fighting Machine.mp3
04 - Forever Autumn.mp3
05 - Thunder Child.mp3
CD2
THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS:
01 - The Red Weed (Part 1).mp3
02 - The Spirit Of Man.mp3
03 - The Red Weed (Part 2).mp3
04 - The Artilleryman Returns.mp3
05 - Brave New World.mp3
06 - Dead London.mp3
07 - Epilogue (Part 1).mp3
08 - Epilogue (Part 2) NASA.mp3
Disc Three - is devoted to the best club remixes of the album from 1979-2005.
CD3
The Remixes – 1979 - 2005
01 - Ulladubulla [Papa Ootzie Remix].mp3
02 - Eve Of The War [Hybrid's Fire In The Sky Mix].mp3
03 - Forever Autumn [N-Trance Remix].mp3
04 - Horsell Common & The Heat Ray [Max Mondo Mix].mp3
05 - The Spirit Of Dub [Frederikse-Schurrer Remix].mp3
06 - Eve Of The War [Hani Remix].mp3
07 - The Artilleryman & The Fighting Machine [Max Mondo Remix].mp3
08 - Brave New World [Todd Terry Remix].mp3
09 - Forever Autumn [Dark Autumn Dub - Frederikse-Schurrer Remix].mp3
10 - The Red Weed [Mister Joyboy Remix].mp3
11 - The Spirit Of Destiny (The Parson Versus Palene).mp3
12 - Eve Of The War [Disco Remix].mp3
13 - The Spirit Of Man [Max Mondo Remix].mp3
14 - Eve Of The War [Ben Liebrand Remix].mp3
15 - Brave New World [Dario G Remix].mp3
16 - Dead London [Mister Joyboy Remix].mp3
17 - Eve Of The War vs Animal & Man.mp3
Discs 4-6:
Include never-before-heard rarities, outtakes and unreleased tracks from the original recording sessions including on disc 6 the entire, unabridged Richard Burton performance of which only 40% made its way on to the original album.
CD4
The Coming Of The Martians: Revisited (Original Studio Outakes I Of III)
01 - The 4 Narrators (Opening Passage).mp3
02 - The Eve Of The War (Unused Intro).mp3
03 - The Eve Of The War (Early Take).mp3
04 - The Eve Of The War (Stripped Mix).mp3
05 - The Eve Of The War.mp3
06 - 'that' Laugh.mp3
07 - Out-Takes (Horsell Common And The Heatray) 1.mp3
08 - Out-Takes (Horsell Common And The Heatray) 2.mp3
09 - Out-Takes (Horsell Common And The Heatray) 3.mp3
10 - Horsell Common And The Heatray (Early Take).mp3
11 - Out-Takes (Horsell Common And The Heatray) 4.mp3
12 - The Heatray Vs The Jangle Piano (Martian Vs Man).mp3
13 - The Artilleryman And The Fighting Machine (Early Band Take).mp3
14 - Richard Burton Outtake.mp3
15 - Lego Toys (Original 1969 Tv Commercial Featuring Paul Vigrass & Gary Osborne).mp3
16 - Forever Autumn (1972 Version By Paul Vigrass & Gary Osborne).mp3
17 - Bar Count-Under Attack (Forever Autumn).mp3
18 - Forever Autumn (Early Version).mp3
19 - Bar Count Continues (Forever Autumn).mp3
20 - Paperboys (Original Outtakes) 1.mp3
21 - Paperboys (Original Outtakes) 2.mp3
22 - Paperboy Shouts And Panicking Crowds 1.mp3
23 - Paperboy Shouts And Panicking Crowds 2.mp3
24 - ''ugly Brutes'' And ''see Them'' (Forever Autumn) 1.mp3
25 - Forever Autumn (Early Version).mp3
26 - Thunder [CENSORED] (Early Version).mp3
27 - Thunder [CENSORED] (Later Version).mp3
28 - The 4 Narrators (The Earth Belonged To The Martians).mp3
29 - The 4 Narrators (The Red Weed).mp3
30 - The Red Weed (Early Version).mp3
31 - Unused Outtake (The Red Weed).mp3
32 - The Red Weed (Unused Part 1).mp3
33 - The Red Weed (Unused Part 2.mp3
34 - Jeff's ''worth A Listen'' (Red Weed Alternative).mp3
35 - Original 75'' Radio Commercial.mp3
CD5
The Earth Under The Martians… Revisited (Original Studio Out-Takes: II Of III)
01 - Parson Nathanial (2005 Revisited Version).mp3
02 - The Spirit Of Man (Early Version With Unused Acting Parts).mp3
03 - The Spirit Of Man (Early Version Guide Vocals).mp3
04 - The Spirit Of Man (Jerry, Doreen & Phil Acting Outtakes).mp3
05 - The Spirit Of Man (Alternative Version).mp3
06 - Are You Ready Jeff (Acting Outtakes From The Spirit Of Man) 1.mp3
07 - Are You Ready Jeff (Acting Outtakes From The Spirit Of Man) 2.mp3
08 - The Spirit Of Man.mp3
09 - The Spirit Of Man (Outtakes, Including Original Unused Script) 1.mp3
10 - The Spirit Of Man (Outtakes, Including Original Unused Script) 2.mp3
11 - The Spirit Of Man (Outtakes, Including Original Unused Script) 3.mp3
12 - The Spirit Of Man (Beth & Parson Outtakes, Including Original Unused Script).mp3
13 - The Spirit Of Man (Outtakes, Including Original Unused Script) 4.mp3
14 - The Spirit Of 'mayan' (Parson Outtakes).mp3
15 - The Spirit Of Man (Beth Is Killed).mp3
16 - The Spirit Of Man (Beth Is Killed - Original Outtake).mp3
17 - The Spirit Of Man (Guitar Solo).mp3
18 - 'outcries' (From The Spirit Of Man).mp3
19 - The Spirited Man (Strings And Acoustic Guitar Alternative).mp3
20 - The Spirit Of Man (Beth Outtakes) 1.mp3
21 - The Spirit Of Man (Beth Outtakes) 2.mp3
22 - The Spirit Of Man (Beth Outtakes) 3.mp3
23 - The Spirit Of Man (Beth Outtakes) 4.mp3
24 - The Spirit Of Man (Beth Outtakes) 5.mp3
25 - The Spirit Of Man (Beth Outtakes) 6.mp3
26 - The Spirit Of Guitars (Guitars And Strings From The Spirit Of Man).mp3
27 - Tea For Two Jerry And Phil's Late Night Cabaret.mp3
28 - Parson Nathanial Scream Outtakes (From The Spirit Of Man) 1.mp3
29 - Parson Nathanial Scream Outtakes (From The Spirit Of Man) 2.mp3
30 - Original Parson Scream Outtakes.mp3
31 - Original Spanish Parson Scream Outtakes.mp3
32 - German Journalist And Parson Outtakes.mp3
33 - Spanish Journalist And Parson Scream Outtake.mp3
34 - And There Was Nothing I Could Do To Prevent It (Outtakes And Master).mp3
35 - Parson Nathaniel (Original Unused Song).mp3
36 - Less Piano And More Air Please.mp3
37 - The Artilleryman Returns (With Unused Parts).mp3
38 - The Artilleryman's Outtakes (From Brave New World) 1.mp3
39 - The Artilleryman's Outtakes (From Brave New World) 2.mp3
40 - The Artilleryman's Outtakes (From Brave New World) 3.mp3
41 - Brave New World (Early Piano Demo).mp3
42 - Brave New World (Early Band Take).mp3
43 - The Artilleryman's I've Got A Plan Outtakes (From Brave New World).mp3
44 - Brave New World (Accoustic Alternative).mp3
45 - Brave New World (Alternative Version).mp3
46 - The Spanish Artilleryman's Plan (From Brave New World).mp3
47 - Acting Outtakes (From Brave New World) 1.mp3
48 - Acting Outtakes (From Brave New World) 2.mp3
49 - Acting Outtakes (From Brave New World) 3.mp3
50 - Acting Outtakes (From Brave New World) 4.mp3
51 - Acting Outtakes (From Brave New World) 5.mp3
52 - Original 40 Radio Commercial.mp3
53 - Regressing Bar Count.mp3
CD6
The Earth Under The Martians… Revisited (Continued) (Original Studio Out-Takes: III Of III)
01 - Dead London (Early Version, Feat. Original Piano Demo).mp3
02 - Dead London (Early Band Run-Through).mp3
03 - Murderous Out-Takes (From Dead London) 1.mp3
04 - Murderous Out-Takes (From Dead London) 2.mp3
05 - Bar Count (From Dead London).mp3
06 - Breathless Out-Take (From Dead London).mp3
07 - Epilogue 1 (Early Band Take).mp3
08 - The Four Narrators (Epilogue).mp3
09 - Unused Alternative Nasa Epilogue Out-Takes 1.mp3
10 - Unused Alternative Nasa Epilogue Out-Takes 2.mp3
11 - Unused Alternative Nasa Epilogue Out-Takes 3.mp3
12 - Nasa Epilogue Spanish Version.mp3
13 - Spanish Narrator Out-Takes 1.mp3
14 - Spanish Narrator Out-Takes 2.mp3
15 - Spanish Narrator Out-Takes 3.mp3
16 - Spanish Narrator Out-Takes 4.mp3
17 - The Eve Of The War.mp3
18 - The Falling Star.mp3
19 - Horsell Common And The Heat Ray.mp3
20 - The Fighting Begins.mp3
21 - The Artilleryman And The Fighting Machine.mp3
22 - The Exodus From London.mp3
23 - The Thunder [CENSORED].mp3
24 - The Red Weed.mp3
25 - How I Fell In With The Parson.mp3
26 - The Days Of Imprisonment.mp3
27 - What We Saw From The Ruined House.mp3
28 - The Artilleryman And The Brave New World.mp3
29 - Dead London.mp3
30 - The Epilogue.mp3
31 - Nasa Epilogue.mp3
Biography:
Jeff Wayne was already a well-known figure in British rock circles when he created The War of the Worlds, the piece for which he would remain known to the public for more than a quarter century after. He was born in New York, the son of actor Jerry Wayne, but he ended up being raised for four years in England, when his father was cast in the role of Sky Masterson in the original London production of Guys and Dolls. In New York, he attended Forest Hills High School and his keen interest in music, which encompassed both classical and jazz, resulted in Wayne`s studying privately -- his teachers included John Mehegan. He spent the rest of his youth in California and initially attended college as a journalism student before switching to music, and he supported himself in those years playing keyboards with various bands, when he wasn`t indulging in his other great passion, tennis. Eventually, he chose music as his career path, and was helped along considerably when his father produced a musical play on the West End entitled Two Cities (which starred a young Edward Woodward) -- a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens` A Tale of Two Cities; that production may well have set Wayne on the path to the creation of his magnum opus.
With Two Cities to his credit, Wayne jumped into music composition and production feet first, amassing substantial professional credits in television music and commercial jingles, and then film music, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He moved into record production in a big way in the early 1970s when he produced Rock On, the David Essex album that yielded a number one hit with its title track (which also earned a Grammy nomination). His production work on Essex`s two subsequent albums, and on the movie Stardust -- starring Essex -- brought him to the attention of the rock music community in England and earned him the loyalty of such players as Chris Spedding and Jo Partridge, who would loom large in his future projects. Among the attributes that made Wayne so popular with these musicians, the most notable were his precise (and very demanding) musical sensibilities, which sometimes meant running into a large number of takes but also held his artists -- singers and musicians alike -- to a very high standard, akin to that of classical music, with very impressive results on record, and he had a great ability to work with what were then very primitive synthesizers, generating unique sounds that crossed freely between classical and pop.
Wayne spent a big chunk of 1977 and a piece of 1978 working on War of the Worlds, for which he recruited some of the top musical and acting talent of the era, including Richard Burton (as narrator), singers Justin Hayward and Phil Lynott (and Essex), and actress/singer Julie Covington. Based on various accounts of the sessions, one reason that resulting album worked as well as it did was that overdubbing on the instrumental tracks was held to a minimum -- when Wayne and Spedding or Partridge crossed swords, as it were, on synthesizer and guitar, respectively, or Wayne spun an elaborate electronic keyboard line over a Herbie Flowers bass part, everyone was actually playing at once, generating the music live in the studio. The elaborately produced and packaged double-album, a strangely compelling mix of progressive rock, hard rock, classical, and literary influences, was a huge hit in England, where it rode the charts for six years and became the biggest selling English "soundtrack" (it wasn`t a soundtrack, of course, or a cast album, but it usually got classified as one or the other, based on its dramatic content) in a quarter of a century. It sold well throughout Europe and most of the rest of the world -- a specific German-language adaptation, narrated by Curd Jergens, was also prepared for that market. Ironically, it had the chance to be much bigger than that in America when the single extracted from the first LP, "Forever Autumn," sung by Justin Hayward, began getting major airplay -- based on radio play alone, the 45 nudged into the top 40, but the record company was so slow getting actual copies of the single into stores so that people could buy it, that by the time the record was available for purchase, it had already started down the charts and was being returned from many retailers. As a result, the album never found more than a wide cult following in the United States.
The experience of working with Wayne was so good for Justin Hayward that he chose the producer to work on his next solo LP, Night Flight, and Wayne was also the producer of the music for the movie MacVicar, starring Roger Daltrey. Following a brace of television-related projects, in 1992 he unveiled his next conceptual project, the musical version of Spartacus, which included Anthony Hopkins and singer (and future star actress) Catherine Zeta-Jones in its cast. He has also appeared as a guest conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra, leading them in the performance of highlights from his War of the Worlds score. In the mid- `90s, that album was remastered for the European market, and he also did a remixed and remastered version of highlights from the album with new vocals and other embellishments.
