Okay, please pay attention otherwise this will get confusing real quick…

What we’re talking about here is not the Steven Spielberg/Tom Cruise Hollywood movie War of the Worlds, but THE War of the Worlds, a ’70s-vintage musical recording by Jeff Wayne — and no, not Jeff Lynne of ELO fame, but Jeff Wayne.

If you still haven’t a clue of what the hell I’m talking about you’ll just have to trust me on this… The War of the Worlds was one of those “concept albums” released in the midst of the disco era. It spawned a couple of minor hits in its day, though what I liked about it (being all of 12 at the time) were the drawrings that came in the enclosed booklet.

Anyway, now it’s apparently a full-on geezer cash-grab live arena tour and DVD. Here’s the promo for it:

The show and disc are both limited to the UK at the moment and thank god for that — when the highlight of your concert is a cameo by one of the Moody Blues, you know you’re in for a snooze-fest.

As I get older I find myself more and more overly-sensitive to anything that can be construed as nostalgia, but after watching — actually, fast-forwarding through — The War of the Worlds DVD I can say with confidence that there’s no danger of that here. It hasn’t aged well at all.

Come to think of it, it was probably pretty lame when it first came out…