Feeling empty inside. Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great. As he journeys across Mountain passes Insignificance sweeps over him. He is running from his everything. Includes Album Cover, Release Year, and User Reviews. The Libertines - The Man Who Would Be King. Features Song Lyrics for Jimmy Ellis's The Best of Orion: The Man Who Would Be King album. Directed by John Huston. Features Song Lyrics for Jimmy Ellis's The Best of Orion: The Man Who Would Be King album. "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) is a story by Rudyard Kipling about two British adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan, a remote part of Afghanistan.The story was first published in The Phantom Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (1888). When I hear this song, I think of the story of Moses. Pete Doherty is looking a little "under the weather" in the beginning...but he pulls through! Includes Album Cover, Release Year, and User Reviews. All the lyrics and translations to the album The Best of Orion: The Man Who Would Be King by Jimmy Ellis He is running from his Wildest thoughts. Farewell to the King is a 1989 American action adventure drama film written and directed by John Milius. The film won 'The Discovery Award' at the British Independent Film Awards 2015. With Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey. "The Minstrel Boy" is an Irish patriotic song written by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) who set it to the melody of The Moreen, an old Irish air. It also appeared in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (1895), and numerous later editions of that collection. It reflects on the story, as two friends – who seem to be at the top – drift away from each other and begin to despise each other, mirroring the bandmates' turbulent relationship and eventual splitting of the band … The Son of God Goes Forth to War (1812) is a hymn by Reginald Heber which appears, with reworked lyrics, in the novella The Man Who Would Be King (1888), by Rudyard Kipling and, set to the Irish tune The Moreen / The Minstrel Boy, in the film The Man Who Would Be King (1975), directed by John Huston. Orion: The Man Who Would Be King. His reflection of the beauty Round him. It was adapted and directed by John Huston and starred Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Saeed Jaffrey, and Christopher Plummer as Kipling (giving a name to the novella's anonymous narrator). Released by Bay Cities in 1975 (BCD 3007) containing music from The Man Who Would Be King (1975).