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unusual facts about Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – The New Generation


Chris Spedding

Spedding featured extensively on the album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds issued in 1978, and much later was one of only two musicians from that album to tour with Jeff Wayne and the cast between 2006 and 2012, and then perform on the new album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – The New Generation.


Another Planet / Voyager

The song "Another Planet" contains samples from Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds, and was included on the CD edition of Hold Your Colour when it was released in July 2005.

Hollywood Wives: The New Generation

The film is based on the Hollywood Wives: The New Generation the book of the same name, which was a spin-off from the 1983 successful novel Hollywood Wives, both written by Jackie Collins.

Hollywood Wives: The New Generation, also released as Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives: The New Generation, is a 2003 television film directed by Joyce Chopra.

Image Metrics

The company provided the modeling and facial animation for a photo-realistic, 11-foot 3D hologram of the late Burton for the Live on Stage! production of "Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of The Worlds." Image Metrics animated a Richard Burton in his mid 30's to recreate his role as journalist George Herbert.

Radio Delmare

For their theme tune they choose "The Eve Of The War" by Jeff Wayne.

Raúl Márquez

Márquez currently works on the announcing team for Showtime on their Spanish-language broadcasts, as well as the English-language ShoBox: The New Generation series.

T.N.T. for the Brain

The Introduction samples "Horsell Common and the Heat Ray" from Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.


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