"If you have a perception of him as an out-of-control rock'n'roller, that's not the guy I worked with." Jeff Wayne needed someone to play an apocalyptic preacher in The War Of The Worlds. In Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott, he found the perfect voice

The cover art for The War of the Worlds musical and a 1982 black and white photograph of Phil Lynott at a mixing desk.

Musician and composer Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds was released in 1978.

The musical – based on H.G. Wells' 1898 novel of the same name – was mostly recorded in Advision Studios, in Fitzrovia, London the previous year. The story centres around an unnamed person's survival during an alien invasion, and Wayne enlisted the likes of Richard Burton, David Essex, Julie Covington and The Moody Blues' Justin Hayward to bring Wells' apocalyptic vision to life.