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The Coming Of The Martians
A1	The Eve Of The War
A2	Horsell Common And The Heat Ray
The Coming Of The Martians
B1	The Artilleryman And The Fighting Machine
B2	Forever Autumn Written-By – Gary Osborne, Paul Vigrass
B3	Thunder Child Written-By – Gary Osborne
The Earth Under The Martians
C1	The Red Weed (Part 1)
C2	The Spirit Of Man Written-By – Gary Osborne
C3	The Red Weed (Part 2)
The Earth Under The Martians
D1	Brave New World Written-By – Gary Osborne
D2	Dead London
D3	Epilogue (Part 1)
D4	Epilogue (Part 2) (NASA)

Companies, etc.

• Licensed To – CBS Records
• Licensed From – Ollie Record Productions
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – CBS Records
• Copyright (c) – CBS Records
• Made By – Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd.
• Published By – April Music Ltd.
• Published By – Jeff Wayne Music
• Published By – Leeds Music
• Recorded At – Advision Studios
• Mastered At – Tape One

Credits

• Art Direction, Design [Logo] – John Pasche
• Bass – Herbie Flowers
• Composed By, Orchestrated By, Conductor, Producer, Executive-Producer – Jeff Wayne
• Directed By [Dramatic And Narrative Sections] – Charles Dubin, Jeff Wayne
• Drums – Barry Morgan
• Featuring – Justin Hayward
• Featuring [Artilleryman] – David Essex
• Featuring [Beth] – Julie Covington
• Featuring [Journalist] – Richard Burton
• Featuring [The Heat Ray] – Jo Partridge
• Featuring [The Parson] – Phil Lynott
• Featuring [Thundercloud] – Chris Thompson
• Guitar – Chris Spedding, Jo Partridge
• Keyboards, Synthesizer – Ken 'Prof' Freeman*
• Keyboards, Voice [Epilogue Voices] – Jeff Wayne
• Lacquer Cut By – BilBo
• Lyrics By – Gary Osborne, Paul Vigrass (tracks: B2)
• Mastered By – Bill Foster
• Painting – Geoff Taylor , Michael Trim, Peter Goodfellow
• Percussion – Barry De Souza, Ray Cooper, Roy Jones
• Recorded By – Geoff Young
• Recorded By [Assistant] – Laurence Diana
• Tar (Drum), Santoor, Zither – George Fenton
• Written-By [Dramatized] – Doreen Wayne

Notes

This version should not be confused with the almost identical version which has side durations printed on the face labels. No durations are printed on this version.

Catalogue number "CBS 96000" is printed on the spine of the sleeve. "96000" is found on the rear sleeve. "S CBS 96000" is printed on the face labels of Side A, B and D.

This 2 record set is housed in plain white inner sleeves within a gatefold outer sleeve. It is accompanied with a 16 page colour booklet of album artwork, lyrics and credits.

© 1978 CBS Records. ℗ 1978 CBS Records.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Rights Society: MCPS / BIEM
• Matrix / Runout (Hand-etched side A variant 1): CBS.S82671 A7 9600 A7 BILBO O
• Matrix / Runout (Hand-etched side B variant 1): CBS-S.9600.B-8 82671-B-8
• Matrix / Runout (Hand-etched side C variant 1): CBS.S.82672 A7 96000 C7 BILBO
• Matrix / Runout (Hand-etched side D variant 1): CBS-S.96000.D-9 82672.B.9
• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout etched variant 2): CBS S 96000-A-9 82671-A9
• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout etched variant 2): CBS-S-82671 B7 96000 B7 BILBO
• Matrix / Runout (Side C runout etched variant 2): CBS-S-96000-A-8 82672-C8 BILBO
• Matrix / Runout (Side D runout etched variant 2): CBS-S 96000-D-10 82672-B-10
• Matrix / Runout (Face label side A): S CBS 82671 A*
• Matrix / Runout (Face label side B): S CBS 82671 B*
• Matrix / Runout (Face label side C): (PC2 35290) S CBS 82672 A°
• Matrix / Runout (Face label side D): S CBS 82672 B*
• Label Code: LC 0149
• Other (Distribution code): CB 252
• Other (Format code): 63
• Other (Catalogue number record 1, face label): S CBS 82671
• Other (Catalogue number record 2, face label): S CBS 82672

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
CBS 96000, CBS 82671, CBS 82672	Jeff Wayne	Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds ‎(2xLP, Album)	CBS, CBS, CBS	CBS 96000, CBS 82671, CBS 82672	UK	1978
PC2 35290	Jeff Wayne	Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds ‎(2xLP, Album, Gat)	Columbia	PC2 35290	US	1978
CBS 96000	Jeff Wayne	Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds ‎(2xLP, Album, W/Lbl)	CBS	CBS 96000	UK	1978
PC235290	Jeff Wayne	Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds ‎(2xLP, Gat)	Columbia	PC235290	US	1978
S2BP 220201, CBS 96000	Jeff Wayne	Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds ‎(2xLP, Album)	CBS, CBS	S2BP 220201, CBS 96000	Australia	1978