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“Dead London” is the tenth track on Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978), the seminal progressive rock concept album based on H.G. Wells’ novel. One of the album’s darkest and most desolate compositions, the track presents a vision of a post-apocalyptic London, abandoned, silent, and ruled by Martian tripods that are now slowly failing. Featuring somber narration by Richard Burton and haunting instrumental passages, it captures the emotional low point in the narrative—the apparent end of human civilization.