I was raving through my mother's vinyl collection in the loft, and came across this. Now we have this on CD, and it is awesome. If you've never listened to it, do it. Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. Do it.
Anyway, it's awesome, it's got some amazing artwork on the sleeve and in the book that came with it that I want to share.
This is the fold out of the sleeve itself and the scene is that of when the first martian crashed to earth, described as 'the cylinder'. The painting is by Peter Goodfellow.
The first page from the book. The painting is my Geoff Taylor and is called 'Panic in the streets.'
"...the beginning of the rout of civilization, the massacre of Mankind..."
'Thunder Child' by Michael Trim.
"...the Thunder Child vanished forever, taking with her Man's last hope of victory. The Earth belonged to the Martians..."
'The Red Weed' by Geoff Taylor.
"...the Red Weed began to creep like a slimy red animal across the land, it's living scarlet feelers crawling, crawling!"
'Parson Nathaniel' by Peter Goodfellow.
"...they must be cast out - and I have been chosen to do it!"
'Brave New World' by Geoff Taylor.
"We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves. You know where? Underground!"
'The Birds' by Geoff Taylor.
"...out of the hood hung red shreds at which the hungry birds now pecked and tore."
Oooold stuff. Good stuff.-HJ x
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