My husband introduced me to this album, I absolutely love it. Unfortunately he passed away in 2020 from cancer aged 47. I had this song played at his funeral. Life will be forever Autumn without you Lee 💔
I am so sorry for your loss, especially as he was so young. I am a 51 year old UK male and I was lucky enough to experience this album when it came out in the laye 70's as a kid. I know it so well, most of the words too. My dad had a high end hifi and headphone setup back then, so I had an amazing experience which stays with me today.
@@eleanorrolph476 i lost my daughter and son yr half apart ive laid them together with the words on the headstone my life will be forever autumn cos your not here yes its the bollocks x
For my little boy who passed away in my arms Christmas 1998 he was 5 years old my heart is shattered forever 💔😭 mummy needs you so much I'm broken forever I can't cope with out you 💔💔😭
God bless you and give you peace. If it helps a little, believe he is always with you. You carry him in your heart throughout eternity. Love and Blessings.
Jeff Wayne and Justin Hayward ex Moody Blues both brilliant at atmosphere! "Nights in White Satin, Never Reaching the End, Music I Have Written, Never Meaning to Send". Scared to Declare Love. Forever Autumn, Love Declared BUT Never Lost. IF you carry the LOVE Had & Refuse to Lose and the Love You Never Declared But Keep, You have Lost BUT Not Lost. The MEMORY IS CHERISHED FOREVER.
Thankyou for thinking off others,I lost my beautiful,witty,clever daughter,she was born in Autumn,she took her beautiful life,then I lost my husband and soulmate,he was killed in a motorcycle accident,my heart and soul is broken,I carry them in my heart,my beloved Amanda and Martin love doesn’t die 💔💔💔😭😭x
@@idakriel3995 my english teacher MISS HAWKES played this album through out our whole english class term in 1978 it was an amazing time to be listening to this iconic classic album
My husband has just passed and wants this song to be played I am going tomorrow to play it for him he loved it his so g to me, I am in tears god bless my love my sole mate my friend I love you so muxh
My thoughts and prayers are with you. Although your mum is not physically with now she will live in your heart forever and you will be together again one day.
I was 24 yrs old in 1978 and the Australian Army when I first listen this Album MY Brother bought it we listen to it together we still do im 70 now he is 69 music bonded us together love u bro
Lost the love of my life to horrific cancer in 6wks. We travelled & was always recovering lost music & books. He'd never heard this + mum loved it also. She didn't have a life - so I gave her mine. Choosing a song for a funeral is heart breaking, but did ok. Can never get over grief though... So Joy, keep your chin up = it's the best we can do! xx
I bought this album in 1978 I’m 73 now and still listen to it and it’s one of my favourite albums of all time the original cast were the best and can never be replaced
My mother passed away in November 2014 and this song was played at her funeral. It never fails to get me sobbing - I didn't attend her funeral since I was only 10 at the time but not a day goes by that I don't regret not going, but I wasn't ready to say goodbye and I never will be. Miss you, mother xx
To all the heartbroken; We all voluntarily incarnated here on earth, to experience a disconnect, a godless life learning experience... perhaps as a necessary contrast from our previous heavenly existence! Perhaps try transpose the feeling of this song of; the (temporary) loss we feel here on earth, to; the forgotten belonging/Love/ Homeliness of our previous Home in heaven. Even if you are Atheist, Look-up NDE experiences & learn what they see beyond the "veil' learn again where we Came from/ & are going back to!, you will see through a new lens!.
One of my most treasured posessions is this album mounted in a picture frame on the wall behind me. This was the story of my youth and why I came to love science fiction. That led to a lifelong love of technology, then a career, a wife and children. Now in my late 50's I look back at what this album gave me, while I look at the exact album that I played in my youth, owned and played frequently by my parents, now mounted on the wall behind me. For my parerents, "because you're not here".
Thanks for sharing your story. There's a better world coming my friend... it's heavenly and free but we have to choose the one who made it all. Colossians 1:16
My beautiful Dad Song who made his transition on the day of his 65th Birthday on 14th June 2020. Played this at his funeral and I couldn't listen to it for sometime as my heart hurt but now I play it every day and my 4 year old trying to sing it. ❤️💙💜 miss my beautiful Dad sooo much.
This song never fails to get me all emotional & teary eyed.Richard Burton's narration gives me goosebumps 😢❤Has anyone here ever listened to the full album & really gotten into the story?Highly recommend,you won't regret it 😍❤❤
I lost my dad at 68 to bowel disease it died suddenly there nothing I cud for him I sat all day and night with my dad when he passed it was like my best friend me for good I saw his spirit leave his I saw there all thing and I believe in after life now is energy is around me every ware go it's there with me always and never forget 😊😊
My husband and I always felt the Moody Blues were our band. He died 10 years ago from diabetic complications, 6 months before our 40th anniversary. I still weep when I hear this.
An odd thing to say, but this album is the best adaptation of the novel, everything about it is terrifying in the right ways. The music is amazing throughout, but this track however, is fucking beautiful. A favourite of mine. Also the transition at 4:10 is... just... gah... perfection
I hadn't heard this song since 1980 when my Dad used to play it over and over after my Mom committed suicide. He used to scare me and my sister with the 'machines from Mars' and only seeing the cover artwork now brings back shivers to my spine. It's funny that after all these years, I can still sing along the lyrics, though only now I understand the words 'cause you're not here'. At that time, aged 5, when hearing this song I could only feel an intense loneliness, which has taken me decades to get rid off. My Dad is 77 now, he had a stroke last year but is still there for me, just like he always was throughout all the tough times. I would like to listen this song together with him and cry out all those tears I could not cry when I was too young to understand what had happened.
I lost a very close friend to cancer this song was played at her funeral i love the song it helps me through hard times its been nearly 9 years since she past not a day goes by i dont think of her wishing she was still here love u ali xxx
I've been listening to this for nearly 40 years now, and I still love it. For me, "Forever Autumn" and "Thunderchild" are the highlights of a totally brilliant album.
my thoughts exactly, im just 23 but my father used to play these songs in the car and i was already in love with the book before listening to it and it has grown so much on me i cant help bt cry with both of those songs
40 years were does time 🚶♀️ 🎠 ? Went to a car boot sale last Sunday found a mint copy of the War of the world's cost all of £2 ! ❤❤❤a real masterpiece
In 1978 the local radio station played this over 4 nights and I dutifully recorded it on happy tapes I bought with my dinner money from the chemist on the way home from school.Tapes have long gone but I have three pristine albums with all the drawings in them
Today it is 25 years since my beloved father suddenly passed away (26.6.1997l and this is the first song I listened to after the terrible news came through. It is ironic that Welsh actor Richard Burton narrated this. My father was also Welsh. Very emotional but beautiful to listen to. Rest in paradise dad x
If you can find it on UA-cam, there is another adaptation of this production with British actor Liam Neeson doing the narration. It is a staged play interpretation, and simply mesmerizing!!
HOLY SHIT. Am I the only one that noticed that they actually animated the heat ray in the video? You can see it going back and forth across _Thunder child's_ Fo'csle and A turret
I think of my beautiful cat Surely (Pronounced like Shirley) who was only 2 when she died. We got her a week after my husband and I married in October of '92 and almost exactly 2 years later she went missing and was found dead a week later. My heart was shattered. She loved playing in the leaves and being out doors,, exploring and all. It's been several years and I still miss my little Surely Bo Birley.
Well, I'd dispute that, but I know where you're coming from! Have you heard 'Like a stone'? The lead singer, Chris Cornell, committed suicide at the age of 39! Then there's 'while my guitar gently weeps' by George Harrison. So many great songs from that era! Where's all the genius talent gone?
Assuming there's unlimited beer! Burton and O'Toole were head and shoulders better than the other two. Sadly too young to have either Burton or O'Toole on the stage
My father died in 1996 from cancer I dedicated this song to him he loved autumn and when I was a child we would kick our way through autumns golden gown in the park together oh how I still miss him! 😢 rest in peace my wonderful intelligent kind father until we meet again ❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤🕊🕊🕊
There is no volume loud enough to do this track justice. So many elements, so many emotion-inducing moments. The strings, that guitar, Burton's voice, Justin's vocal, the lyrics...the goosebumps. I cave in, every single time.
My brother and I used to listen to this soundtrack on a Sony reel to reel when we were young, always in the dark,was the best musically and Burton's voice made your mind go into another world
Takes me to my childhood. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. When autumn was a very special time and Christmas was so much more special. Can anyone else explain why?. It just was the best time.😣
It was the best time. We thought we owed our parents and society a thank you, todays younger generation of snowflakes believe their parents and society owe them.
Uk 🇬🇧 England listening 2025 this song is for my mum when she passes not yet but this what she wants more than a tunnneee and good tunnneee justin hayward thank you stu
Was nine years old when I discovered this album. The 1970s was a great decade for music. Brings back memories on 1978/79. A triple whammy Star wars, Close Encounters of the third kind. And Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds.
This was one of my dad's favourite things to listen to in the car on many day trips to the seaside sadly we lost him ten months ago and forever autumn was played at his funeral I love you dad miss you terribly 😢
Sorry for your loss , I lost my dad last year so I know your pain . God bless your dad. It's a tough road ahead but you'll get though it at your own pace.
I was in hospital in 1978. My uncle taped it and I played it so much he had to do another copy. It's still one of my favourite albums of all time. Forever Autumn is also still one of my favourite songs ever. This album though owes its success due to - imo - Richard Burton's silky voice.
I daren't think how they were dancing! Wounded animals?? zombie-like refugees ? I do remember a dance version of Eve of the War from the 1990's mind, you could boogie to that! :-)
I,ll never forget the my dad bought this Album home in 1979, he was so exited, we sat down with lights off and a couple of candles lit, I was 15 at the time and it really scared my sisters lol, anyway it blew my mind and I haven,t stopped listening to probably one of the best Albums of all time.
So many broken hearted people, including me. This song is our anthem. The way my darling wife came to me, and left is exactltly how it was in the song.
Magnificent, glorious, majestic. In memory of my beloved husband. Greg Alexander Burnett. Until we meet again, l will keep on listening to your favourite band of all time.
This is the song of my early childhood. It was the first audio cassette i've heard. My father bring it to me from the England. I was seven years old. Till the present time, there is no such a masterpiece like this. Jeff Wayne, it is the greatest rock opera for all time!
Im with you on this. I was a similar age [8yrs!]. It was the first storybook cassette I listened to. Yes, it was a concept album, but to an 8yr old it was a story with music. I was mesmerised. I listened to it with one of my brothers and we were both silent in his bedroom for the whole time. One of the best moments of my childhood memory. Being transported into a world of fear then hope then triumph!
He was living in Stoke on Trent at the time and Shelton bar, the steel works was glowing red in the night sky and it's said that's where he got his idea from
Tomorrow I will be visiting London to see the "Jeff Wayne's The Musical War of The Worlds: Live Experience". This music has been a staple of my childhood and early adult life and I cannot wait to experience this magic live!
@@gvigary1 it was fantastic! I was disappointed when it finished, as I wished I could’ve spent the whole day there. My only small gripe is that for a “musical experience” it hardly touched on the any of the songs, barring “Forever Autumn” and the first 2 minutes of “The Spirit of Man” I must say though, the VR sequence for forever autumn was spectacular
@@TheChrisleekay damn and the man is just there. never in the history of the world. could any body else have given this classic such a more scary feel.
Richard Burton was the finest actor of his generation no doubt, and he was fortunate to have been married to the most beautiful woman in the world, not once, but twice... RIP Richard & Elizabeth.
I was lucky enough to see the stage show directed by Jeff Wayne where Justin Hayward performed this song. Ricahard Burton only appeared as a hologram. It was still very reminiscent of the 1978 album. I remember it fondly and still drink coffee from my mug I bought from the merchandise stall. The Martian fighting machine sending lasers into the audience was chilling.
@@rncbshef84 I am so glad I saw Justin perform that song on stage. Not truly live, but I was glad I was there nonetheless. Jeff Wayne created a musical that can be celebrated for the generations moving forward. BTW coffee tastes like the survival of the human race from that mug! Green flashes mean nothing to the person who just sipped.
Lost my mum in Feb this year.she loved this whole album. Losing any family member is the hardest thing I have had to endure in my 50 years.rest peacefully mum ❣
Lost dad 2 years ago today. This was his song. We inherited his truck the first time we drove it after he passed this was on the radio almost like a sign. And yes we had it at his funeral
My husband introduced me to this album, I absolutely love it. Unfortunately he passed away in 2020 from cancer aged 47. I had this song played at his funeral. Life will be forever Autumn without you Lee 💔
So sorry for your loss. Hugs💜💜💜
Sorry for your Loss , Joy . Perfect Eulogy Song .
it would be "precious to hear at any funeral"....
Such a beautiful song for a funeral, farewell. Or more precisely.....a beautiful song for ' until we meet again'.😇🙏💯❤️🥂
I am so sorry for your loss, especially as he was so young. I am a 51 year old UK male and I was lucky enough to experience this album when it came out in the laye 70's as a kid. I know it so well, most of the words too. My dad had a high end hifi and headphone setup back then, so I had an amazing experience which stays with me today.
My Dad loved this so much.❤
I'm old too. Put this on for my son when he was 6. He loved it
This Dad still loves it!😍
listened to this in 1978 when i was 18.i am 60 now still listening to it
still listening at 58 and still closing my eyes and loving it ..peace to all
Same here.
Damn, I’m 15. Glad to hear that people who listened to it back when it came out still listen to it.
I am 59, heard it with 17, also still listening to it, great music
Caro
Have always loved this album/musical. Saw the live musical after receiving some bad news and I still regard it as one of the highlights of my life.
❤
My name is Autumn, my mum named me after this song, such a beautiful song
My mum called me leafy 🍃
A song sung by a genius with a lovely voice.... I envy you :D
That is so awesome, your mum rocks!
My mom named me Aqualung. She was a huge Jethro Tull fan.
Justin Heywood vocals.
Never has there been such a perfect selection of voices to both sing and to narrate. No one could have ever done this better than Hayward and Burton.
too true my friend jeff wayne is the bollocks xxxx
Absolutely
*Hayward
Almost as though someone was watching ;)
@@eleanorrolph476 i lost my daughter and son yr half apart ive laid them together with the words on the headstone my life will be forever autumn cos your not here yes its the bollocks x
For my little boy who passed away in my arms Christmas 1998 he was 5 years old my heart is shattered forever 💔😭 mummy needs you so much I'm broken forever I can't cope with out you 💔💔😭
God bless you and give you peace. If it helps a little, believe he is always with you. You carry him in your heart throughout eternity. Love and Blessings.
god bless u and ur little boy.. god will look after him till u meet again
So so sorry, I dont know if I could cope if one of my children passed. May God bless you and your little boy. ❤❤❤❤❤
🥺😢
Heartbreaking,😢
Reading comments from people who have lost loved ones and listening to this is tough, my heart goes out to each and everyone of you
Jeff Wayne and Justin Hayward ex Moody Blues both brilliant at atmosphere! "Nights in White Satin, Never Reaching the End, Music I Have Written, Never Meaning to Send". Scared to Declare Love. Forever Autumn, Love Declared BUT Never Lost. IF you carry the LOVE Had & Refuse to Lose and the Love You Never Declared But Keep, You have Lost BUT Not Lost. The MEMORY IS CHERISHED FOREVER.
Thankyou for thinking off others,I lost my beautiful,witty,clever daughter,she was born in Autumn,she took her beautiful life,then I lost my husband and soulmate,he was killed in a motorcycle accident,my heart and soul is broken,I carry them in my heart,my beloved Amanda and Martin love doesn’t die 💔💔💔😭😭x
They lie!
@@Biggestislandshut up you don’t know if they are but I agree with the comment, not your reply
Thank you ❤
There will never be another Richard Burton.
He was a fantastic narrator.
My only wish is that he lived for longer than he did: and continued to narrate both prose and poetry. I don't know what it is about the Welsh...
Dogs snalled
Amen!
There cannot.
Beautiful voice and handsome with it
This really is a brilliant album,it never gets old 🗝️. 64yrs old , love it.
63 years old and still listen to it and yes the memories is sad cause I lost my brother who introduced this to me 😢
@@idakriel3995 my english teacher MISS HAWKES played this album through out our whole english class term in 1978 it was an amazing time to be listening to this iconic classic album
I'm 64 as well this album never gets old 🧓
62 years here and still listen to it
The year's gets old so it does ❤
My husband has just passed and wants this song to be played I am going tomorrow to play it for him he loved it his so g to me, I am in tears god bless my love my sole mate my friend I love you so muxh
That's sad to hear hope your ok
@dianajackson618 thank you for your loverly reply
🙏
Very sad time i love this tune and had it played at my brothers funeral be strong
Im good hope you ok
To my wife who was suddenly taken from me and the children in the Autumn of 2004.
You loved the Autumn
I dedicate this song to my mum who passed away this morning. I love you mum. Im going to miss you.😢
Hugs. So sorry
Though you miss your Mum, remember Your Mum.
God Bless x
My thoughts and prayers are with you. Although your mum is not physically with now she will live in your heart forever and you will be together again one day.
Sorry sorry for your loss, I know what it's like.
Richard Burton's voice is the voice of excellence !
Always.
Yes. As is Justin Hayward's. Formidable combination.
One could pick Burton's voice out of ten thousand! It's just so distinctive, a Welsh voice full of coal dust and gravel
Yessir!
RIP Richard Burton.
@seanmckenna4155wow, wow and wow.
I was 24 yrs old in 1978 and the Australian Army when I first listen this Album MY Brother bought it we listen to it together we still do im 70 now he is 69 music bonded us together love u bro
Memories of my late dad played at his funeral 6 years next month
How beautiful ❤
Lost the love of my life to horrific cancer in 6wks. We travelled & was always recovering lost music & books. He'd never heard this + mum loved it also. She didn't have a life - so I gave her mine. Choosing a song for a funeral is heart breaking, but did ok. Can never get over grief though... So Joy, keep your chin up = it's the best we can do! xx
Sending you love and understanding from Scotland my friend .
He was lucky that he had you
One day at a time. :)
Honestly no, but it gets easier to live with
I bought this album in 1978 I’m 73 now and still listen to it and it’s one of my favourite albums of all time the original cast were the best and can never be replaced
I agree... I'm 67 and still regard this album as one of the best ever released...
Me too
Hayward's haunting melancholic voice was just perfect. Then David Essex and who could forget Phil Lynott as the parson. Incredible
My mother passed away in November 2014 and this song was played at her funeral. It never fails to get me sobbing - I didn't attend her funeral since I was only 10 at the time but not a day goes by that I don't regret not going, but I wasn't ready to say goodbye and I never will be. Miss you, mother xx
💙🤗💙
To all the heartbroken;
We all voluntarily incarnated here on earth, to experience a disconnect, a godless life learning experience... perhaps as a necessary contrast from our previous heavenly existence!
Perhaps try transpose the feeling of this song of; the (temporary) loss we feel here on earth, to; the forgotten belonging/Love/ Homeliness of our previous Home in heaven. Even if you are Atheist,
Look-up NDE experiences & learn what they see beyond the "veil' learn again where we Came from/ & are going back to!, you will see through a new lens!.
God bless that little 10 yr old child xx
That's how life sometimes goes, little friend.....we cannot do otherwise than accept it, in the end...
I’m so very sorry Xxxxx
One of my most treasured posessions is this album mounted in a picture frame on the wall behind me. This was the story of my youth and why I came to love science fiction. That led to a lifelong love of technology, then a career, a wife and children. Now in my late 50's I look back at what this album gave me, while I look at the exact album that I played in my youth, owned and played frequently by my parents, now mounted on the wall behind me. For my parerents, "because you're not here".
Just a masterpiece ❤
Thanks for sharing your story. There's a better world coming my friend... it's heavenly and free but we have to choose the one who made it all. Colossians 1:16
Ewat a production hope there's more
I put this on here can't believe bow many people are still listening to it,it's heart warming warming 😢😢I'm 52 now and still love it xx
79 and listening !
@@rogerwilco4736 thank you for your reply Roger its a great song ,all the best my friend Tracy xxx
73 years old & still love this album 2025
My beautiful Dad Song who made his transition on the day of his 65th Birthday on 14th June 2020. Played this at his funeral and I couldn't listen to it for sometime as my heart hurt but now I play it every day and my 4 year old trying to sing it. ❤️💙💜 miss my beautiful Dad sooo much.
This song will go on forever steve
Beautiful dad ❤
This also was my fathers song🙏🏼♥️
Richard Burton that dark husky voice we old ones shall never forget
"Broadsword calling Danny Boy"
@@CountvonCount33 where eagles dare with Clint eastwood
This song has been with me all through my childhood and now at 48 I'm still this album ❤
This song never fails to get me all emotional & teary eyed.Richard Burton's narration gives me goosebumps 😢❤Has anyone here ever listened to the full album & really gotten into the story?Highly recommend,you won't regret it 😍❤❤
Yes indeed Sharon, on a late - night car journey . We were in a different world !
Yes!since I was a kid.Amazing album. I would say the best of all time.
yup since i was a kid 1979 had the original twin records with the artwork etc
Yes. Dead London and Thunderchild are my favourite tracks.
Where can I listen to the hole thing? I remember this as a child
I lost my dad at 68 to bowel disease it died suddenly there nothing I cud for him I sat all day and night with my dad when he passed it was like my best friend me for good I saw his spirit leave his I saw there all thing and I believe in after life now is energy is around me every ware go it's there with me always and never forget 😊😊
My husband and I always felt the Moody Blues were our band. He died 10 years ago from diabetic complications, 6 months before our 40th anniversary. I still weep when I hear this.
Sad.
My band from age 13 now 68. Still love them and this song. Sorry for your loss ❤
I wish you strength and continued love of life
This album means so much, to so many people. I could cry just thinking about those happy times when I was a child.
Sorry for you loss! xx
Every part of this album is mezmerizing and Richard Burton is another dimension to round it off
Richard Burton...that voice, a gift from God. 🏴
No, from his mom and dad!
No sf figure involved
First of all where did you see God in this video
Indeed.
Richard Burton was a brilliant narrator.
An odd thing to say, but this album is the best adaptation of the novel, everything about it is terrifying in the right ways. The music is amazing throughout, but this track however, is fucking beautiful. A favourite of mine. Also the transition at 4:10 is... just... gah... perfection
Spot on
I agree
Have you heard the live version from 2005?
On the nose mate. Particularly the casting of David Essex and Burton for me.
It's literally the only adaptation faithful to the book that isn't a low budget movie
One of the greatest concept albums ever made. Rock at its finest
I hadn't heard this song since 1980 when my Dad used to play it over and over after my Mom committed suicide. He used to scare me and my sister with the 'machines from Mars' and only seeing the cover artwork now brings back shivers to my spine. It's funny that after all these years, I can still sing along the lyrics, though only now I understand the words 'cause you're not here'. At that time, aged 5, when hearing this song I could only feel an intense loneliness, which has taken me decades to get rid off. My Dad is 77 now, he had a stroke last year but is still there for me, just like he always was throughout all the tough times. I would like to listen this song together with him and cry out all those tears I could not cry when I was too young to understand what had happened.
Do it Robbie, it’ll be healing for both you and your Dad to listen again together.
Sending you a hug and love 🙏🏻💚
Bloody Hell!. Same here in my Australian Family. My Dad. Hard.
I’m sorry for your loss
I cried a lot listening to this when my cat passed away on the 7th of February, 2019. Rest in Peace, Fia, I love you.
I lost a very close friend to cancer this song was played at her funeral i love the song it helps me through hard times its been nearly 9 years since she past not a day goes by i dont think of her wishing she was still here love u ali xxx
I've been listening to this for nearly 40 years now, and I still love it. For me, "Forever Autumn" and "Thunderchild" are the highlights of a totally brilliant album.
my thoughts exactly, im just 23 but my father used to play these songs in the car and i was already in love with the book before listening to it and it has grown so much on me i cant help bt cry with both of those songs
I would also add Brave New World and The Spirit of Man there. Such good songs
I tear up when I hear Thunderchild
40 years were does time 🚶♀️ 🎠 ? Went to a car boot sale last Sunday found a mint copy of the War of the world's cost all of £2 ! ❤❤❤a real masterpiece
Parson Nathaniel is another great track, you feel the parson decending into madness. 💔
"Through Autumn's golden gown, we used to kick our way"
Yes. This.
In 1978 the local radio station played this over 4 nights and I dutifully recorded it on happy tapes I bought with my dinner money from the chemist on the way home from school.Tapes have long gone but I have three pristine albums with all the drawings in them
I had forgotten how much i loved this .
Richard Burton had a magical voice, so does Justin Hayward. Top tune and excellent narration.
Isn't this a rare mix!! Love it so much
Today it is 25 years since my beloved father suddenly passed away (26.6.1997l and this is the first song I listened to after the terrible news came through. It is ironic that Welsh actor Richard Burton narrated this. My father was also Welsh. Very emotional but beautiful to listen to. Rest in paradise dad x
If you can find it on UA-cam, there is another adaptation of this production with British actor Liam Neeson doing the narration. It is a staged play interpretation, and simply mesmerizing!!
He was clearly important to you, and you’ll give the world his influence though you
HOLY SHIT.
Am I the only one that noticed that they actually animated the heat ray in the video?
You can see it going back and forth across _Thunder child's_ Fo'csle and A turret
I did not notice that only until I just see your comment! Thanks lol
Well spotted 👍
Yes about 4 seconds before I read your comment
I only noticed it because you pointed it out. 😂
I noticed.
My mother discovered Justin Hayward (and this song and this album ... but mostly Justin Hayward!) when she was 14 in 1978.
He was so handsome!
Richard Burton was fantastic at narrating this story. Justin Hayward, what a wonderful singer!! Love this album ❤❤❤❤
2024 anyone ????
Came upon this today October 16 2024
This is great!
Haven't listened to this for years...was about time again❤❤❤
Love this
November 18 2024 👍👍👍
It still tugs at my heart and brings tears to my eyes!
I saw Justin Haywood last nite in Lowell Massachusetts , and he sang this song, brought tears to my eyes! Wow so powerful so beautiful melody !!
Lucky you!
A Gentle Rain Falls Softly On My Weary Eyes... a superb line from a superb song.
I think of my beautiful cat Surely (Pronounced like Shirley) who was only 2 when she died. We got her a week after my husband and I married in October of '92 and almost exactly 2 years later she went missing and was found dead a week later. My heart was shattered. She loved playing in the leaves and being out doors,, exploring and all. It's been several years and I still miss my little Surely Bo Birley.
There are two lovely songs called Surley by the band Supertramp.
Never will be replicated. What a masterpiece!
Best album ever made. The music the singing and the narration of all the characters cannot be topped.
Third best... after Foxtrot and The wall.. 😉
Well, I'd dispute that, but I know where you're coming from! Have you heard 'Like a stone'? The lead singer, Chris Cornell, committed suicide at the age of 39! Then there's 'while my guitar gently weeps' by George Harrison.
So many great songs from that era! Where's all the genius talent gone?
This album is the most amazing blend of fear, desperation, despair, hope and love that music and narrative has ever portrayed perfectly .
If there is a Bar in heaven...🤔
Richard Burton, Peter o toole , Richard Harris, Oliver Reed...what a night that would be...👍👍😄
Assuming there's unlimited beer! Burton and O'Toole were head and shoulders better than the other two. Sadly too young to have either Burton or O'Toole on the stage
Don’t forget h g wells and Ernest Hemingway
Would have ended in a right royal punch up!
@@narcdetester2102 add James Joyce and f Scott Fitzgerald
My father died in 1996 from cancer I dedicated this song to him he loved autumn and when I was a child we would kick our way through autumns golden gown in the park together oh how I still miss him! 😢 rest in peace my wonderful intelligent kind father until we meet again ❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤🙏❤🕊🕊🕊
There is no volume loud enough to do this track justice. So many elements, so many emotion-inducing moments. The strings, that guitar, Burton's voice, Justin's vocal, the lyrics...the goosebumps. I cave in, every single time.
Ik ben nu 73 ,wordt nog steeds emotioneel als ik dit hoor, wel 1van mijn favorieten ,kippenvel😢
I couldn't have put it better myself.Incredibly moving and stays with you
My brother and I used to listen to this soundtrack on a Sony reel to reel when we were young, always in the dark,was the best musically and Burton's voice made your mind go into another world
Well said ❤
Takes me to my childhood. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. When autumn was a very special time and Christmas was so much more special. Can anyone else explain why?. It just was the best time.😣
It was the best time. We thought we owed our parents and society a thank you, todays younger generation of snowflakes believe their parents and society owe them.
Back then, life was lived! Today mostly we go through the motions. I completely understand.❤️
Uk 🇬🇧 England listening 2025 this song is for my mum when she passes not yet but this what she wants more than a tunnneee and good tunnneee justin hayward thank you stu
Was nine years old when I discovered this album. The 1970s was a great decade for music. Brings back memories on 1978/79. A triple whammy Star wars, Close Encounters of the third kind. And Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds.
Me and my wife are going to see War of the Worlds next year in Hull ,both of us looking forward to it.
You forgot Star Trek. Yes, I saw them all in the 70's.
Battlestar Galactica was cool as well.
Always loved this song.justin Hayward has a fantastic voice..also richard Burton.could listen to his voice forever.
This song came out when my grandfather died. Late September. We had the same birthday. I miss him more Every Fall. It was our favorite time of yr.
This was one of my dad's favourite things to listen to in the car on many day trips to the seaside sadly we lost him ten months ago and forever autumn was played at his funeral
I love you dad miss you terribly 😢
Sorry for your loss , I lost my dad last year so I know your pain . God bless your dad. It's a tough road ahead but you'll get though it at your own pace.
@@phillipmanning4995 thank you for your kind words
I'm sorry for your loss. If your father loved this , then I'm guessing he was a great bloke..👍🏻👍🏻😞
Thank you for you kind words Dad truly was a great bloke he definitely was one in a million
It is a wonderful composition that strums the strings on many guitars and hearts. My thoughts to you all for your losses ❤
I was in hospital in 1978. My uncle taped it and I played it so much he had to do another copy. It's still one of my favourite albums of all time. Forever Autumn is also still one of my favourite songs ever. This album though owes its success due to - imo - Richard Burton's silky voice.
Love Richard Burton’s voice, and Justin’s. Fabulous album. I still listen to the original 💙🇦🇺
My God how beautiful. Justin's voice is angelic. He has the most awesome voice I've ever heard. 🌹
I've had 56 years of this wonderful man's voice. His music is sheer poetry
My husband has also just passed. Playing this at funeral
So sorry ❤
My mum died this year and the last one standing Feel for you
This was the 1st thing I listened to my 1st night in foster care I was 11 years old and to this day it's my go to song to comfort me
My brother was a DJ and this was one of my favorites albums he introduced me to, then I played for my children as they danced around the living room:)
I daren't think how they were dancing!
Wounded animals?? zombie-like refugees ?
I do remember a dance version of Eve of the War from the 1990's mind, you could boogie to that! :-)
@@davess61 they were high on soda 🥤 they danced like gazelles
When I listened to this song it give me goose bumps and I love this song arom British music
I,ll never forget the my dad bought this Album home in 1979, he was so exited, we sat down with lights off and a couple of candles lit, I was 15 at the time and it really scared my sisters lol, anyway it blew my mind and I haven,t stopped listening to probably one of the best Albums of all time.
Richard Burtons voice is so distinctive. Perfect.
So many broken hearted people, including me. This song is our anthem. The way my darling wife came to me, and left is exactltly how it was in the song.
No matter how you lose the loved one this song would be the one to play!
Never have I known such an amazing voice in Richard Burton!
As in I mean!
James Earl Jones gives Burton a run for his money on that count. Very close which ever you prefer.
@@68Jaguar420Gburton everytime mate sorry. Followed by sir David attenborough and Morgan Freeman. Imo
Watch the Burton tribute to Sinatra on you tube. It gives you goosebumps!
@@ericjackson9496 John Gielgud as well.
What can l say
Excellence in every sense of the word
Just perfect
I loved this song in the 1970's at 16,
I love it even more at 61
Magnificent, glorious, majestic. In memory of my beloved husband. Greg Alexander Burnett. Until we meet again, l will keep on listening to your favourite band of all time.
justin haywood and richard burton are just sublime on this track
This is the song of my early childhood. It was the first audio cassette i've heard. My father bring it to me from the England. I was seven years old. Till the present time, there is no such a masterpiece like this. Jeff Wayne, it is the greatest rock opera for all time!
Im with you on this. I was a similar age [8yrs!]. It was the first storybook cassette I listened to. Yes, it was a concept album, but to an 8yr old it was a story with music. I was mesmerised. I listened to it with one of my brothers and we were both silent in his bedroom for the whole time. One of the best moments of my childhood memory. Being transported into a world of fear then hope then triumph!
Beautiful Richard Burton. What an incredible voice and talent x
A snapshot from a much much much much much much classier age.
To John without you my life is Forever Autumn RIP my love
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Idling in bed at 2pm on a Sunday, hear a car pass playing this song, it inspired me to get up. Thank you random driver for helping me get up.
I heard it 43 years ago and I am listening now, old 62
Me to
X x nah your 62 years young 😇😇😇🥰🥰
I to heard this in1978 loved it then now 63 still love it
Me too❤❤
Also heard it in the late 1960s lying until a table at a party tripping, 79 now!
about ten of us as youngsters listened to this tripping with star wars in the background what a night
My darling Mum passed away weeks ago after a battle with MND and this was her funeral song. I’ll forever miss her 😢
I’m sorry to hear that you lost your Mum
I hope you feel well & best wishes to ya
Still listening to this tunnneee uk 🇬🇧 here 2024
The mind of H.G. Wells amazes me, how could he have had a vision of Aliens from Mars, the album still gives me goosebumps..✌❤
He was living in Stoke on Trent at the time and Shelton bar, the steel works was glowing red in the night sky and it's said that's where he got his idea from
That's a tune ❤
This by far is the best version.
Tomorrow I will be visiting London to see the "Jeff Wayne's The Musical War of The Worlds: Live Experience". This music has been a staple of my childhood and early adult life and I cannot wait to experience this magic live!
How was it? I was prompted to come here by an advert for that!
@@gvigary1 it was fantastic! I was disappointed when it finished, as I wished I could’ve spent the whole day there. My only small gripe is that for a “musical experience” it hardly touched on the any of the songs, barring “Forever Autumn” and the first 2 minutes of “The Spirit of Man”
I must say though, the VR sequence for forever autumn was spectacular
Awesome, enjoy
That spoken voice! A shiver down the spine, resonance.
Burton!!!
@@TheChrisleekay damn and the man is just there. never in the history of the world. could any body else have given this classic such a more scary feel.
Richard Burton was the finest actor of his generation no doubt, and he was fortunate to have been married to the most beautiful woman in the world, not once, but twice...
RIP Richard & Elizabeth.
I was lucky enough to see the stage show directed by Jeff Wayne where Justin Hayward performed this song. Ricahard Burton only appeared as a hologram. It was still very reminiscent of the 1978 album. I remember it fondly and still drink coffee from my mug I bought from the merchandise stall. The Martian fighting machine sending lasers into the audience was chilling.
I wish I had bought the mug... Haywood amazing
@@rncbshef84 I am so glad I saw Justin perform that song on stage. Not truly live, but I was glad I was there nonetheless. Jeff Wayne created a musical that can be celebrated for the generations moving forward. BTW coffee tastes like the survival of the human race from that mug! Green flashes mean nothing to the person who just sipped.
My husband absolutely loved this album , so at his funeral I played Forever Autumn. I play it every anniversary. I love it.
To my lost love............thank you for our time despite the decades since
An incredible blending of classical British art, if one can still say such a thing.
who can relate to this in this sad times wars ect hope everyone is safe
Powerful, precious memories of my childhood, my Dads song, gone 22yrs today, this still gives me goosebumps 💙💙 Dad 💙💙
Lost my mum in Feb this year.she loved this whole album. Losing any family member is the hardest thing I have had to endure in my 50 years.rest peacefully mum ❣
Lost dad 2 years ago today. This was his song. We inherited his truck the first time we drove it after he passed this was on the radio almost like a sign. And yes we had it at his funeral
I almost cried in that music at the musical.
Timeless. Whenever I hear this I think of my girlfriend Rachel who passed away in 2013. She loved this song. RIP. I love you