Artist: Jeff Wayne Genre(s):
Dance: Pop
Discography:
ULLAdubULLA: The Remix Album Year: 2000
Tracks: 26
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 world for more than a quarter century after. He was born in New York, the boy of role player Jerry Wayne, only he complete up being elevated for four days in England, when his father was cast in the character of Sky Masterson in the original London production of Guys and Dolls. In New York, he attended Forest Hills High School and his keen pursuit in euphony, which encompassed both classical and jazz, resulted in Wayne's perusal in camera -- his teachers included John Mehegan. He played out the rest of his youth in California and initially accompanied college as a journalism bookman ahead switch to music, and he supported himself in those years acting keyboards with various bands, when he wasn't indulging in his former large passionateness, tennis. Eventually, he chose music as his vocation path, and was helped along well when his father produced a musical play on the West End entitled Two Cities (which asterisked a young Edward Woodward) -- a musical adjustment of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities; that production may easily have specify Wayne on the path to the creation of his magnum piece of music. With Two Cities to his credit, Wayne jumped into music report and production feet get-go, amassing substantial professional credits in television music and commercial jingles, and then motion picture music, during the recent 1960s and early seventies. He moved into book production in a big way in the early seventies when he produced
Rock On, the David Essex album that yielded a number one stumble with its title track (which too earned a Grammy nomination). His production work on Essex's deuce subsequent albums, and on the picture show
Stardust -- prima Essex -- brought him to the care of the sway euphony community in England and earned him the loyalty of such players as Chris Spedding and Jo Partridge, world Health Organization would loom big in his future projects. Among the attributes that made Wayne so popular with these musicians, the most famed were his precise (and identical demanding) musical sensibilities, which sometimes meant running into a magnanimous number of takes merely as well held his artists -- singers and musicians alike -- to a very high standard, consanguineal to that of classical music, with very impressive results on record, and he had a gravid power to do work with what were then identical primitive synthesizers, generating unique sounds that crossed freely 'tween classic and pop.Mad Anthony Wayne dog-tired a big chunk of 1977 and a piece of 1978 working on
War of the Worlds, for which he recruited some of the top melodious and acting talent of the eRA, including Richard Burton (as storyteller), singers Justin Hayward and Phil Lynott (and Essex), and actress/singer Julie Covington. Based on several accounts of the roger Huntington 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 synthesiser and guitar, respectively, or Wayne spun an elaborate electronic keyboard line over a Herbie Flowers bass voice region, everyone was actually acting at once, generating the euphony live in the studio apartment. The intricately produced and packaged double-album, a strangely compelling mix of progressive rock, hard rock, classical, and literary influences, was a immense attain in England, where it rode the charts for 6 eld and became the biggest marketing English "soundtrack" (it wasn't a soundtrack, of course of study, or a chuck album, simply it commonly got classified as unitary or the early, based on its dramatic content) in a quarter of a century. It sold good end-to-end Europe and almost of the rest of the earthly concern -- a specific German-language adaptation, narrated by Curd Jergens, was too prepared for that market place. Ironically, it had the chance to be much larger than that in America when the single extracted from the first LP, "Always Autumn," sung dynasty by Justin Hayward, began getting major airplay -- based on radio play alone, the 45 nudged into the top 40, just the record society was so dim getting actual copies of the single into stores so that people could buy it, that by the time the record book was uncommitted for leverage, it had already started down the charts and was being returned from many retailers. As a result, the album ne'er ground more than a wide-cut religious cult following in the United States. The experience of working with Wayne was so salutary for Justin Hayward that he chose the producer to cultivate on his next solo LP,
Night Flight, and Wayne was too the producer of the medicine for the picture
MacVicar, leading Roger Daltrey. Following a bracing of television-related projects, in 1992 he unveiled his next conceptual stick out, the musical translation of
Spartacus, which included Anthony Hopkins and isaac Bashevis Singer (and future star actress) Catherine Zeta-Jones in its cast. He has too appeared as a guest conductor with the London Symphony Orchestra, prima them in the operation of highlights from his
Warfare of the Worlds score. In the mid '90s, that album was remastered for the European market place, and he likewise did a remixed and remastered version of highlights from the album with new vocals and other embellishments.
