He’s the enormously respected composer, arranger and tour conductor of 70s prog masterpiece The Musical Version of The War of The Worlds. It’s sold more than 15 million copies. But what’s less known about Jeff Wayne, the maestro of Martian invasion, is his long and illustrious career of composing scores for TV themes and commercials, from the late 60s up to the release of TWOTW in 1978, and far beyond.
“My dad had commissioned me to write the score for his West End musical Two Cities – an adaptation of Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities,” Wayne says. “One of the investors was at the time one of the top directors in advertising. Because he liked my score of the musical, he asked me to compose the music for a commercial.”
