They come in threes

We watched a rerun of the War of the Worlds where Tom Cruise does a lot of running from the bad guys.  Then during my daily ripping of the old record pile I plucked out the War of the Worlds music version by Jeff Wayne.  I can't even remember buying this and it's a double album.  It is music song and a narrative by Richard Burton and this time it is set in England.  I remember listening to this story numerous times from one end to the other and you need at least 100 minutes for the whole thing.  I must have had plenty of spare time once.  Finally, the mail came and inside was a copy of Red Mars filling another gap in my Hugo  List.  The Martians are invading this address at least.