Jeff Wayne
Jeffry Jeff Wayne is an American musician. In 1978 he released Jeff Waynes Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, his musical adaptation of H. G. Wells sciencefiction novel The War of the Worlds. Wayne wrote approximately 3,000 advertising jingles in the 1970s which appeared on television in the United Kingdom, notably a Gordons Gin commercial which was covered by The Human League. Wayne also composed numerous wellknown television themes, including Good Morning Britain , ITVs The Big Match and The World of Sport, BBCs 60 Minutes, and foryears, the UKs first news radio station, LBC. Wayne wrote feature film and documentary film scores and was musical director for various artists. Wayne published a book called The Book of Tennis and created, produced and scored eight thirtyminute episodes of The Book of Tennis Chronicles that was distributed by Fox Sports in approximately twenty countries, and was broadcast in the US on The Tennis Channel between 2005 and 2008.
Jeff Wayne was born onJuly 1943 in Forest Hills, Queens. His father, Jerry Wayne, was an actor, singer and theatre producer who had a profound influence on Jeffs life, inspiring his love of music and tennis, and introducing him to H. G. Wells book The War of the Worlds. Wayne studied classical piano from the age of five, learned jazz piano and was taught tennis by his father. He spent four years of his childhood in the UK when his father played romantic gambler Sky Masterson in the original West End musical production of Guys and Dolls.
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