Eve of the War - Jeff Wayne - instrumental cover by Dave Monk

Here is my instrumental version of the fabulous "The Eve of the War" by Jeff Wayne. I am playing it on my 50's Series Fender Stratocaster through my Korg AX3000G. I hope you like it. Dave p.s. I always recommend earphones; preferably earbuds, for a clear sound. Don't forget to subscribe and click the Bell. Please remember that I am not Richard Burton! lol Backing superb track found here at Karaoke Version...https://www.karaoke-version.co.uk/custombackingtrack/jeff-wayne/eve-of-the-war.html. My channel ... https://www.youtube.com/OldGuitarMonkey My Website ... https://www.davidmonk.me.uk/ My Facebook page ... https://www.facebook.com/david.monk.79 The Song The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, made into a 2005 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, based on the 1898 novel by H. G. Wells. The opening track of Jeff Wayne’s 1978 concept album Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. A rock opera based on H. G. Wells’s classic 1898 science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, the album tells the story of an invasion of Earth by grotesque beings from the planet Mars, who conquer the planet using massive mechanical tripods armed with a “heat-ray” that incinerates everything it touches. “The Eve of the War” begins the first act of the album, subtitled “The Coming of the Martians”. It acts as a prologue, recounting the observation of bizarre atmospheric eruptions on Mars that signal the launching of the Martian invasion fleet, and the arrival on Earth of the first cylinder containing the invaders. It is primarily narration delivered by the central protagonist, “The Journalist”, played by Richard Burton. Lyrics JOURNALIST: No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us. Chorus "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one," he said. "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one - but still they come!"

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