What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

1978 Rock-Disco-Orchestral telling of H.G. Wells' late nineteenth-century sci-fi novel.

Not too disimilar to the Alan Parsons Project house sound. There are only about half a dozen songs, and about the same number of musical themes (some are reprised) to sustain the 85 minutes of this "double" album (ask your Dad...), but the real star of the show for me is the narration from Richard Burton. The only person I could think of that could do the same job would be Orson Welles !!

The album comes across as musical theatre really, but it was released as a Rock album IMHO, and ironically the live spectacular which started up only a few years back can still be found filling arenas.

Chock-full of majorly cheesy moments, but on the whole this is a great listen if you appreciate dramatic music, and it's wonderfully recorded.


AllMusic 4/5 stars.

Edit:

Out of curiosity I've just had a look to see if the Orson Welles Mercury Theatre radio broadcast is available on CD. It is, and I've just ordered a copy. It's not music, but...