Horsell Common and the Heat Ray by Jeff Wayne (Ft. Richard Burton)
Horsell Common and the Heat Ray by Jeff Wayne (Ft. Richard Burton)

Horsell Common and the Heat Ray

Jeff Wayne & Richard Burton * Track #2 On Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds

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Horsell Common and the Heat Ray by Jeff Wayne (Ft. Richard Burton)

Release Date
Fri Jun 09 1978
Performed by
Jeff WayneRichard Burton
Produced by
Jeff Wayne
Writed by
Gary Osborne & Jeff Wayne
About

The second 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 con...

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Horsell Common and the Heat Ray Lyrics

[Instrumental (0:00 - 1:08)]

[Narrator: Richard Burton ("The Journalist")]
Next morning, a crowd gathered on the Common, hypnotised by the unscrewing of the cylinder. Two feet of shining screw projected when suddenly, the lid fell off. Two luminous disk-like eyes appeared above the rim. A huge rounded bulk, larger than a bear, rose up slowly, glistening like wet leather. Its lipless mouth quivered and slathered, and snakelike tentacles writhed as the clumsy body heaved and pulsated...

[Instrumental (1:53 - 3:14)]

[Narrator: Richard Burton ("The Journalist")]
A few young men crept closer to the pit. A tall funnel rose and an invisible ray of heat leapt from man to man, and there was a bright glare as each was instantly turned to fire. Every tree and bush became a mass of flames at the touch of this savage, unearthly Heat Ray...

[Instrumental (3:33 - 5:26)]

[Narrator: Richard Burton ("The Journalist")]
People clawed their way off the Common, and I ran too. I felt I was being toyed with, that when I was on the very verge of safety, this mysterious death would leap after me and strike me down. At last I reached Maybury Hill, and in the dim coolness of my home, I wrote an account for my newspaper before I sank into a restless, haunted sleep...

[Instrumental (5:48 - 6:46)]

[Narrator: Richard Burton ("The Journalist")]
I awoke to alien sounds of hammering from the pit, and hurried to the railway station to buy the paper. Around me, the daily routine of life; working, eating, sleeping, was continuing serenely as it had for countless years. On Horsell Common, the Martians continued hammering and stirring, sleepless, indefatigable, at work on the machines they were making. Now and again a light like the beam of a warship's searchlight swept the Common, and the Heat Ray was ready to follow...

[Instrumental (7:36 - 9:51)]

[Narrator: Richard Burton ("The Journalist")]
In the afternoon, a company of soldiers came through and deployed along the edge of the Common, to form a cordon. That evening, there was a violent crash, and I realised with horror that my home was now within range of the Martian's Heat Ray. At dawn, a falling star with a trail of green mist, landed with a flash like summer lightning. This was the second cylinder...

[Instrumental (10:40 - 11:35)]

Horsell Common and the Heat Ray Q&A

Who wrote Horsell Common and the Heat Ray's ?

Horsell Common and the Heat Ray was written by Gary Osborne & Jeff Wayne.

Who produced Horsell Common and the Heat Ray's ?

Horsell Common and the Heat Ray was produced by Jeff Wayne.

When did Jeff Wayne release Horsell Common and the Heat Ray?

Jeff Wayne released Horsell Common and the Heat Ray on Fri Jun 09 1978.

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