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Jeffrey "Jeff" Wayne is a musician mostly known for his musical version of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. He also wrote several advertising jingles in the 1970s which appeared on television in the United Kingdom, notably the Gordon's Gin commercial, which was systematically covered and re-covered by the Human League. Other well-known themes he wrote include Good Morning Britain (TV-am) and London's LBC radio. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...
For other uses, see The War of the Worlds (disambiguation). ...
Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ...
The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel (or novella) which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ...
Gordons is a popular brand of gin produced in the United Kingdom and under license in New Zealand and several other former British territories. ...
The Human League are an English synthpop band formed in 1977, who, after several changes in line up, achieved great popularity in the 1980s and a limited comeback in the mid-1990s. ...
Good Morning Britain was TV-ams flagship breakfast television show, which broadcast from 7am until 9am five days a week between 1983 and 1992. ...
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Jeff Wayne was born 1 July, 1943 in Forest Hills, Queens. His father, Jerry Wayne, was an actor, singer and theatre producer who had a profound influence on Jeff's life in many ways, inspiring his love of music and of tennis, and introducing him to H. G. Wells' book The War of the Worlds. Wayne took classical piano lessons from the age of five, moving onto jazz piano, and was taught tennis by his father. He spent four years of his childhood in the UK after his father won the role of romantic gambler Sky Masterson in the original West End musical production of Guys and Dolls. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon and The Island of Doctor Moreau. ...
The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel (or novella) which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. ...
Guys And Dolls is a successful 1950 musical. ...
Guys and Dolls Original Broadway Cast recording (1950) Guys And Dolls is a hit 1950 musical, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser. ...
Four years later they returned to New York. Wayne graduated from Stephen Halsey Jr. High and then attended Forest Hills High School for one year (including playing for its tennis team), before moving to California. He graduated from Grant High School, then from Los Angeles Valley College with a journalism degree. He also played keyboards in local bands and coached tennis to support himself through those years. After completing his journalism degree he switched to music, and played keyboards briefly with the Sandpipers. Forest Hills High School (FHHS) is a public secondary school in Queens, New York City. ...
Music career begins In 1966, his father Jerry offered Jeff Wayne the opportunity to compose the score for his upcoming West End musical Two Cities based on Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities which ran at London's Palace Theatre. The musical was a great success, winning for Edward Woodward the Evening Standard Award for Best Male Performance in a Musical for 1968-69. Returning to the UK, Wayne's musical career truly began. He became a record producer and helped produce David Essex's album Rock On. Essex was later recruited by Wayne as a voice actor in The War of the Worlds, playing the part of The Artilleryman. “Dickens†redirects here. ...
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens. ...
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Rock On is the name of several albums: Rock On, a 1971 album by Humble Pie Rock On, a 1972 album by Richard Thompson collaboration The Bunch Rock On, a 1973 album by David Essex Rock On, a 1979 album by Alvin Stardust Rock On, a 1991 album by Del...
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The War of the Worlds In 1978, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds was released and achieved international success, including worldwide hit singles "The Eve of the War" and "Forever Autumn", with vocals performed by Justin Hayward in both. It has also won two Ivor Novello Awards along with The Best Recording in Science Fiction and Fantasy, (the judges included Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Alfred Hitchcock). The record was re-released in 1995 on audio CD with five tracks remastered and added onto the second disk that were mostly created without Wayne's input. For other uses, see The War of the Worlds (disambiguation). ...
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The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards awarded for songwriting and composing. ...
Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Wayne kept a fairly low profile in the decade after The War of the Worlds, but continued to be active in composing and producing. He produced the music for the movie McVicar, released in 1980; he composed the tune for the 'turkish delight' advertisement in 1981, the theme tune for Good Morning Britain in 1982 on TV-am, and composed additional music for the 1984 album Beyond the Planets, Kevin Peek and Rick Wakeman's progressive rock reworking of Holst's orchestral suite. Good Morning Britain was TV-ams flagship breakfast television show, which broadcast from 7am until 9am five days a week between 1983 and 1992. ...
TV-am was a breakfast television station that broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1992. ...
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Gustav Holst Gustav Holst (September 21, 1874, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire - May 25, 1934, London) [1] [2] was an English composer and was a music teacher for over 20 years. ...
In 1992 Jeff Wayne released Spartacus, his first major release since The War of the Worlds. It had many of the ingredients for success: a stellar cast, including Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta Jones, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Marillion's Fish; a libretto by Gary Osborne, who had produced most of the haunting lyrics of The War of the Worlds; and a story combining powerful themes of oppression, desperation, love and death. Despite its potential, however, the album was a disappointment both artistically and commercially, with none of the engaging musicality or novel orchestration of The War of the Worlds. Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (IPA: ) (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning film, stage and television actor. ...
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a Grammy Award-winning male group from South Africa that sings in the vocal style of isicathamiya and mbube. ...
Marillion is a British Rock group. ...
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Antonio Ghislanzoni, nineteenth century Italian librettist. ...
In 1998, Jeff Wayne was involved in producing Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds, a PC computer game including 45 minutes of music from his Musical Version of The War of the Worlds which was re-scored and remixed in a newer electronica style with techno beats. Jeff Waynes The War of the Worlds is a Real-time strategy game developed by Rage Software Limited and released in 1998. ...
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In 2004, Jeff Wayne and Ollie Record Productions began work on a feature-length animated CGI film version of his Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, slated for release in 2007. The $48 million project will make use of both state-of-the-art CGI and motion capture technology. The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. ...
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In 2005 it was announced that the musical would be going on a UK tour in 2006. The show makes use of a 10-piece band and a 48-piece string orchestra, as well as voice actors, screen projected images and animatronics to recreate the original album on stage. A second UK tour is being planned for December 2007.
In the summer of 2005 following over a year’s work remixing (stereo and surround sound), repackaging and remastering, The War of The Worlds was re-released in the UK and Internationally. The album became one of the big hits of the year occupying 10 consecutive weeks in the Top 10 of the UK Album charts. The new release pushed sales to 3 million double albums in the UK, and approaching 14 million world-wide. It is now in the upper ends of the all-time best selling list since charts began, as well as amongst the elite of the longest running albums in chart history approaching, as of this writing, 300 weeks.
His first television series, The Book of Tennis Chronicles, began broadcasting worldwide in 2005 (distributed by Fox Sports) and parallels the lives and tribulations of the greatest tennis players, and events, set against the most dramatic and quirky moments in world history, starting in 1877 and up to present time. Wayne created and produced the 8 half-hours series as well as scoring its music. The series was Executive Produced by Damian Collier, Jeff Wayne's producing partner. Damian Collier is a producer for film, TV, music and stage[1] // Collier has produced both independently (through his Damian Collier Entertainment vehicle) and with major film studios such as Paramount Pictures, Fox, and Universal Pictures, and major record labels including Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Music and Sony/ATV Music...
Tennis Tennis has remained an active part of Wayne's life; he has won at club, county, and national levels including, the British National Indoor Veterans singles and doubles titles, and the National Clay Court doubles. In 1992 he partnered his long time friend and former Great Britain No. 1 and Davis Cup captain Roger Taylor at the European Veteran Championships. 1999 also saw Wayne represent Great Britain competing for the Austria Cup in Spain, and achieved an ITF world ranking in his age group. In 2006 Wayne begin his 17th year as Hertfordshire County Men’s Captain (winners of this years National County Week title) and was elected into the International Lawn Tennis Club of Great Britain. Wayne has also played many pro-am tournaments including for: Muscular Dystrophy, Olympic Games fund raising, and Save the Children. Roger Taylor is a British tennis player. ...
Muscular dystrophy refers to a group of genetic, hereditary muscle diseases that cause progressive muscle weakness. ...
The five Olympic rings were designed in 1913, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games at Antwerp, 1920. ...
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Family Jeff and Geraldine live in Hertfordshire, England, and have four children: Anna-Marie Wayne - an actress now based in California [1], Jemma Wayne - an author with her debut book Bare Necessities launched September 2005, sons Zeb Wayne, DJ’ing on the London club scene as well as composing and producing music, and Joab Wayne at school and training to become a professional tennis player. For the similarly named county in the West Midlands region, see Herefordshire. ...
Anna-Marie Wayne is a British Actress who began her career on TV and stage at an early age. ...
Current activity In April 2006 Wayne began a 14 date sold out concert tour of The War of the Worlds around the UK which he produced alongside Damian Collier, taking in the Royal Albert Hall and the newly refurbished Wembley Arena. Wayne conducted the Black Smoke Band and the 48 piece ULLAdubULLA strings. Damian Collier is a producer for film, TV, music and stage[1] // Collier has produced both independently (through his Damian Collier Entertainment vehicle) and with major film studios such as Paramount Pictures, Fox, and Universal Pictures, and major record labels including Sony BMG, EMI, Universal Music and Sony/ATV Music...
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The show at Wembley Arena was filmed using 23 High Def cameras and was directed by David Mallett. Universal Pictures released a DVD of the show. Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ...
Wayne and Collier will be bringing the tour back to UK arenas in December 2007, ending at London's O2 Arena (the Millennium Dome). They are also currently booking the show worldwide. . It features superscript or subscript characters that are substituted or omitted because of technical limitations. ...
Discography For other uses, see The War of the Worlds (disambiguation). ...
Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...
Highlights from Jeff Waynes Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a compilation album by Jeff Wayne. ...
Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ...
Jeff Waynes Musical Version of Spartacus was a 1992 concept album by Jeff Wayne and others, telling the story of Roman gladiator, Spartacus. ...
Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...
External links - Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds official website
- Interview with Jeff Wayne talking about his Jewish roots, Martians and family
- Jeff Wayne Biography at allmusic.com
- Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds review (album and DVD) at War Of The Worlds Invasion website
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