Cast
- Richard Burton – spoken words (The Journalist: the narrator-protagonist)
- David Essex – spoken words and vocals (The Artilleryman)
- Phil Lynott – spoken words and vocals (Parson Nathaniel)
- Julie Covington – spoken words and vocals (Beth)
- Justin Hayward – vocals (The Sung Thoughts of The Journalist: "Forever Autumn")
- Chris Thompson – vocals (The Voice of Humanity: "Thunder Child")
- Jerry Wayne – spoken words ("Epilogue, Part 2")
- Ken "Prof" Freeman – keyboards
- Chris Spedding – guitars
- Jo Partridge – guitars (mainly The Heat Ray), mandolin
- George Fenton – santur, zither, tar
- Herbie Flowers – bass guitar
- Barry Morgan – drums
- Barry da Souza, Roy Jones, Ray Cooper – percussion
- Paul Vigrass, Gary Osborne, Billy Lawrie – backing vocals
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Famous quotes containing the word cast:
“Why need Christians be still intolerant and superstitious? The simple-minded sailors were unwilling to cast overboard Jonah at his own request.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It was always the work that was the gyroscope in my life. I don’t know who could have lived with me. As an architect you’re absolutely devoured. A woman’s cast in a lot of roles and a man isn’t. I couldn’t be an architect and be a wife and mother.”
—Eleanore Kendall Pettersen (b. 1916)
“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 8:12.
Referring to “the children of the kingdom ... cast out into outer darkness.” The words are also used in the parable of the talents, in Matthew 25:30, said of the “unprofitable servant.”