Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War Of The Worlds -Act 1- Life Begins Again Tour Reconstruction

00:00 HG Wells Intro
04:11 The Eve Of The War (Justin Hayward)
14:27 Horsell Common And The Heat Ray
26:23 The Artilleryman And The Fighting Machine (Ricky Wilson)
38:44 Forever Autumn (Justin Hayward)
46:55 Thunder Child (Alex Clare)

A long one

This is a video of my personal recreation of the Life Begins Again Tour, although only act 1, it's still very accurate to what you would hear if you saw it live.

The Eve Of The War:
Mainly what was in the other video, except for an updated mix and some new video elements to hide some of my mistakes.

Horsell Common And The Heat Ray:
Taken from the 2012 DVD, with bass frequencies below 150hz replaced with the album version, to get rid of the really loud kick drum. The solo was shortened down to match how it is played nowadays.

The Artilleryman And The Fighting Machine:
Also taken from the 2012 DVD, with sound effects taken from an audience recording of a 2022 show, and the part where the fighting machines are introduced has been extended to match the live version. The synths from the audible version of The Eve Of The War were also put in. Ignore Kevin Clifton as the Artilleryman on the video.

Forever Autumn:
Perhaps my favourite mix, I isolated the instruments on the new 2022 version, sound effects from the piano instrumental from 2018, and every other bit from the 2012 album version to create a very punchy-sounding mix which is similar to the live tracks. The ending has been extended just like the shows, and the Carrie dialogue taken from an Ai isolated audience recording from a show.

Thunder Child:
The instrumentation is mainly the audiobook version, I took everything but bass and speech/vocals from the audiobook, and put them into the album version; with the audible version having a nice punchy-kick, it also sounds similar to the live tracks. The break before the 'Ulla' at the end was a matrix of an audience recording, and a vocal-less version of the same bit from The Eve Of The War. Ignore Nathan James in the video singing.

The video is made up of live audience recordings, as well as some parts of CGI which matches what is seen on the screen. This video couldn't have been done without the live recordings so thanks everyone who's videos I used. A couple videos were taken from family members who's videos are not on YouTube.

Thanks for watching, I was very happy with this video.

I have started work on act 2, but don’t know when it will be released

YouTube Live Recordings (In Order Of Appearance):
   • Intro and The Eve of the War. The War of t...  
   • Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds Live London...  
   • Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of...  
   • jeff wayne war of the worlds life brings a...  
   • Jeff Waynes Musical Version Of The War Of ...  
   • Jeff Waynes War of the worlds 2  
   • jeff wayne war of the worlds life brings a...  
   • The crazy crazy heat ray on Horsell Common  
   • Jeff Wayne's The War Of The Worlds Glasgow...  
   • Jeff Waynes Musical Version Of The War Of ...  
   • Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds Live At Lon...  
   • Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds Utilita...   (my video)
   • War Of The Worlds - Newcastle 7/4/22  
   • The War of the Worlds. Newcastle 07-04-2022  
   • Forever Autumn - Justin Hayward @ The O2 A...  
   • Forever Autumn Justin Hayward Jeff Wayne's...  
   • Jeff Waynes War of the worlds 4  
   • Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds O2 London 2...