Jeff Wayne was a shrewd musician, producer, arranger, and British nationalized American visionary, who was an experienced television and advertising tuning specialist.
An underrated talent needed his own label which would lead him to create this great work along with others of similar characteristics.
Years before publication, Jeff Wayne would begin to conceive this project as a musical work, which gradually matured, thinking that it would be better to adapt the work to an album in order to preserve the theatrical essence of the project with dialogues performed by actors and a narration in the purest style of radio serial.
Over time this project grew even more and in 1976 Wayne had the collaboration of notable musicians, vocalists and actors to give life to this ambitious work that went far beyond the usual concept album of the rock operas of Webber and Rice ( Avoid or Jesus Christ Superstar)
Finally, the actor Richard Burton would be the narrator journalist of the play, which also had a stellar roster of musicians such as David Essex, Phil Lynott, Julie Covington, Justin Hayward, Chris Thompson, Chris Speeding, George Fenton, Ray Cooper, Gary Osborne, Herbie Flowers, among many others.
The result was a spectacular album dramatized with a suggestive combination of narrative, with dramatic dialogues and instrumental and vocal themes, the latter two under the canons of progressive rock and rock with echoes by Alan Parsons Project, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Rick Wakeman, Yes, Genesis, Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp and the rock operas of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
A true masterpiece
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