Radio Ga Ga was then competing with radio as an important medium for promoting records. The video for "Radio Ga Ga" would receive a Best Art Direction nomination. Roger Taylor was quoted: Taylor originally conceived of it as "Radio " (from something his toddler son once said), which doubled as a criticism of radio for the decrease in variety of programming and the type of music being played. The song makes reference to two important radio events of the 20th century; Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds" in the lyric "through wars of worlds/invaded by Mars",
Orson Welles "With Orson Welles: Stories of a Life in Film". Welles provided narration for the tracks "Defender" from Manowar's 1987 album "Fighting the World" and "Dark Avenger" on their 1982 album, "Battle Hymns". During the 1980s, Welles worked on such film projects as "The Dreamers", based on two stories by Isak Dinesen and starring Oja Kodar, and "Orson Welles' Magic Show", which reused material from his failed TV pilot. Another project he worked on was "Filming The Trial", the second in a proposed series of documentaries examining his feature films. While much was shot for these projects, none of them was