I know its only been 2 days since you posted this, but this is clearly an underrated comment.

He's just lent against a wall waiting patiently for them to finish.

@@megasuperhyperspeed Big mistake. Should have leave when he could

@@Minillus No need, he's the main character, he has plot armour.

@@jacktaylor8195 Kinda

Some prefer sound of music? Not I !

I'm 33 and have been listening to this album since as long as I can remember my mum playing it when I was a young child. ❤️

My parents bought me this , one of the first LP I ever owned and still listen today. Love Phil Lynotts singing on this.

I'm 'model' 77', but 70's prog & classic rock albums are my favorites. I discovered this album relatively late, but it's one that gives me goosebumps.

62 years old, same here. Tonight started singing The spirit of man out of the blue, when walking the dog in the dark.

So true

She reminds me of Starfire from that Teen titans cartoon

There's a reason why Julie Covington is the original Evita!

Agreed. Her version of don't Cry For Me Argentina is my all time favourite.

ur face is ethereal

Takes me back to a 10 year old boy, listening to the 4 album story

4:30

without fail

Seeing the drug addictions he fighting in is private life then.

YES, HE GAVE THE BEST PERFORMANCE

Yeah, the one shown on The Show Must Go On wasn't a patch on this version.

@@ro63rto They have another version up now, haven't heard it yet, but the singers supposed to be better.

@@bganonimouse2754 Watched the entire 2006 show last night. Preferred it to the Liam Neason/Marty Pellow version that was shown a while back.

@@ro63rto I only saw a bit, but will watch later. I did find the Richard Burton animation / thing in the air a bit weird. But agree about Pellow. Apart from his voice, Pellow's presence on stage was quite flat and too emotionless.

Covid 19 84 don't comply

Legends cry spontaneously to both and forever autumn

I like the red weed and brave now world

The gods themselves will champion the first 3 tracks of the album 😛

Love the "Artilleryman and The Fighting Machine".

The Doomed Bravery of Good Men, and the Indomitable Human Spirit.

Is there something worth living for!!!!

Forget about goodness and mercy! They're gone.....

Covid 19 84 don't comply

Pray, I said! Destroy the Devil, I said! But no. They wouldn't listen.

No There is Nothing

You are a nutter

i have that album too...played it sooooooooo many times growing up

It sure is

Don't ever get rid of it. Pass it down to your kids or grand kids.

Beautiful post..made my day

I was given the album as a Christmas present in 1980...all I knew of it was "Forever Autumn". It's a masterpiece, and this interchange between Phil and Julie is one of the best parts of it.

Well it was self inflicted abuse really

LOVED THAT GUY MESMERISING

Heroin will do that mostly.

@@sirandrelefaedelinoge sad sac

@@garyroberts1496 Ahh, Gary Roberts, the voice of reason in a world gone mad!

Chilling

Major crush on the genious that was Philip Paris Lynott. Exotic from his Father and his stunningly beautiful mother, loved and admired always

I too listened to this album with my father as a child - he introduced me to the kind of music I still adore to this day . Thunderchild was my favorite too and forever autumn. I still start singing a line from this epic album and my dad cant help but join in. I'm so sorry for your loss but I hope you're comforted knowing a daughter is still singing Thunderchild with her dad out there somewhere.

@gotta wonder I just came back from a long shift and reading this has cheered me up. Thank you.

@@bensilk6431And that comment just made my day. Hope your father would like the notion that theres other " Thunder childs" out there still listening.

Sorry about your father mate

Farewell thunderchild 💙

It sounds like the martian actually understands them and they’re like “you know you got a point there…” Or “i hate my job”

Mate it's 'UUUUUUULLLAAAHHHHHH!'

The Martians speak French dude

It sounds so mournful, almost regretting.

@@axjagfilms , For years , I thought that the Martians were saying , " move along ". I read the narrator's words and they were actually saying , "Ulla", lol.

I'm going to watch this live aswell I am really looking forward to it

The whole album is a credit to mans musical and storytelling abilities

The story and music truly made this an excellent master peace

His part was great but definitely listen to the rest of the album/story if you like this. :)

thin lizzy? that voice? really same?

Covid 19 84 don't comply

Lol I'm 21 my mum always puts this on, dare say I find this nostalgic

I couldn't believe my fuckin ears when I found out it was Phil Lynott

I think she does respond to him when he says "we must leave here" and she says the house is still standing.

stupid theory sorry, it is clear she is real.

That's a very interesting take. It is rather strange the narrator never spoke to Beth directly, especially since she enters the scene screaming Nathaniel's name.

@@SaltyFrenchFries moreover, Beth didn't even exist in the novel, where everything happens from the narrator's point of view.

In the words of Nathaniel: I don't believe it's so

You got that right🤣

No Nathaniel no.

Lucky! Mine kept saying Uuullllaaaahhhh!😂

same

4:37 that slide… it’s about the perfect musical gesture for this moment.

Julie Covington fantastic singer still remember her from the rock folies.

Yep, got to stick to the facts!

Not to be confused with Martian dust devils

Such a silly line to be delivered so sincerely.

It was going to be but it got cancelled

Why would you think you're the only one

I imagine there is many of us

We are not alone

yes

And the sound of the glass breaking representing the mental breakdow of the priest. The ultimate hope for the priest (or humanity). Crush and vanish by a martian spaceship.

Last month went to a car boot sale and picked up the vinyl war of the world's for the princely sum of £2

Yes the bass part is fantastic!

Me too! He's a great bassist

He's still doing a jazz breakfast in Brighton.

I've always wanted to name my son Nathaniel after this song, such a beautiful name.

This gives me two great ideas for my future kids’ names. If I have a son, he’ll be Nathaniel, and if a daughter, she’ll be Beth.

@@vicentehizon6202 so if you have a boy and a girl they'd be named after a man and his wife?

@@Penguig it’s only a thought for names

Snap my parents named me Nathanael😁

Add 2 to the collection 😔

I vote Harry’s mum.

You named him after an insane overly religious coward?

@@greenrockgirl5150 At least Nathaniel is a valid religious name on its own but still...

@@nategage Make it 3 xD

I hear you. I love forever autumn and Thunderchild but theres not one piece of this album that's not fantastic.

If it was edited slightly, it could be re-released now with Covid 19 as "the devil within us".

@funko freddie & co They try to make a movie of the Jeff Wayne Musical for decades. Steven Spielberg was interested in doing a movie back in 1979 but sent a letter to Jeff Wayne that he's was too busy to do it, which ultimately led to the 2005 Paramount film. Then in 2004, Jeff Wayne announced that they were going a $48 Million budget CGI animated film for a Summer 2008 release. Despite getting a decent way in development such as a completed script, storyboards, concept art and 5 minutes of animation footage plus test footage of the Martian machines been shown online and private conventions, it never happen and all of the assets made for that film was latter used for the 2006-2009 stage shows. They just could never get the funding nor the interest of international backers (mainly American), as the Jeff Wayne Musical is very unpopular in the United States. In the eyes of Hollywood producers, they view it as the 1980 Flash Gordon movie, which was a major hit in the UK and European territories but was a box office bomb in the United States. In the modern Hollywood mindset, if it can't do well in the United States or China then it's not worth making, hints why you see major film studios like Warner Bros and Fox are more willing to make films based on Japanese/Asian franchises like Godzilla, Alita: Battle Angel, & Ghost in the Shell over British/European franchises. Through if you're interested, here's a link to the test footage for that unmade $48 Million budget Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds CGI animated film to get a taste of what could had been had the film not went under development hell: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jLelY8V2lpvYnIU.html

@@s452_Gojisaurus the thing is though, it would be popular in the UK. Especially by me lmao. I was disappointed by the BBC version. It was too bland and boring. It's a shame because if it was a musical it would be 100% better. Honestly though, I reckon a movie might pop up at some point, but I won't expect it to have the highest budget.

@@Chrmel0 There was the 2005 movie, my personal favourite, although I don't really think Tom Cruise was the best man for the role🤣

Amazing right?

Me to

It's love over despair and the madness we have now in the world.

Bro, this is not some song off of spirit and hope, it’s about the War of the Worlds. It’s literally part of the Album.

Thank you for saying that my Love had a beautiful voice

wynyardjohn I remember her in Rock Follies.

@@joedredd13215 was that in the late 1970s as I was born in 1975

@@tracyhedges6604 mid 70,s is right 👍

What do you mean, "was"?

You were raised right - kudos to your parents 😊

UUUUULLLLLLAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!! UUUUUULLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

Mute be ooooolllllllaàaa

12 year olds love tiktok rap as of 2021!

Listen to Joe Cocker's song 'Noubliez Jamais' maybe download lyrics as well and play for your daughter as an answer to her statement :)

Yeet the child

"not even music"? she must be deaf.

As a twelve year old with an ancient dad, this is the greatest thing I’ve ever witnessed. Along with Raleigh choppers! 🤗 I’ve grew up as if I was in the 1900s, and I love it. The other kids just don’t understand. I was definitely born in the wrong generation! Gems like this are ‘worth trying for’ 🤗❤️

I did, discovered it at the age of thirteen.

​​​@@riotfshooRight?I too was introduced to a love of music by my father and I cant tell you how this struck me as a child. I went to school and was asking do you like war of the worlds to anyone who would listen and not a one knew what I was on about lol, but here I am listening to it 30 something odd years later and sooo grateful my dad had this in his collection. There really are " somethings worth trying for".

Oy don't count us out just yet

I was introduced to this when I was about 10 and instantly fell in absolute love with it. Incredible.

Not always the case believe me