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The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete Townshend

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Released
  
27 June 1989

Length
  
45:36

Artist
  
Pete Townshend

Producer
  
Pete Townshend

Genre
  
Rock music

Recorded
  
1986-1989

The Iron Man The Musical by Pete Townshend (1989)
  
Psychoderelict (1993)

Release date
  
19 June 1989

Label
  
Atlantic Records

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Studio
  
Eel Pie Studios, London

Similar
  
Pete Townshend albums, Rock music albums

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The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete Townshend, released in 1989, is an adaptation of Ted Hughes' story The Iron Man, produced and largely composed and performed by Pete Townshend of The Who. It also stars Roger Daltrey, Deborah Conway, John Lee Hooker, and Nina Simone.

Contents

The three then-surviving members of The Who (Daltrey, John Entwistle, and Townshend) performed as a group in two songs, "Dig" and "Fire", although the latter was not penned by Townshend. (The Who would later perform "Dig" live during their 1989 reunion tour.)

"A Friend is a Friend" and "I Won't Run Anymore" were released as singles; "Fire" was also issued as a promo-only in the United States.

A stage version was mounted at the Young Vic theatre in London in 1993. On the strength of this, Warners optioned the story for a movie which, with a very different adaptation of the story, became The Iron Giant; Townshend received an Executive Producer credit.

Characters

  • Hogarth: Pete Townshend
  • The Vixen: Deborah Conway
  • The Iron Man: John Lee Hooker
  • The Space Dragon: Nina Simone
  • Hogarth's Father: Roger Daltrey
  • The Crow: Chyna
  • The Jay: Nicola Emmanuelle
  • The Frog: Billy Nicholls
  • The Owl: Simon Townshend
  • The Badger: Cleveland Watkiss

    • Track listing

    All songs written by Pete Townshend except where noted.

    1. "I Won't Run Any More" – 4:51 Vocals by Pete Townshend with Deborah Conway
    2. "Over the Top" – 3:31 Vocals by John Lee Hooker
    3. "Man Machines" – 0:42 Vocals by Simon Townshend
    4. "Dig" – 4:07 Performed by The Who
    5. "A Friend Is a Friend" – 4:44 Vocals by Pete Townshend
    6. "I Eat Heavy Metal" – 4:01 Vocals by John Lee Hooker
    7. "All Shall Be Well" – 4:02 Vocals by Pete Townshend with Deborah Conway and Chyna
    8. "Was There Life" – 4:19 Vocals by Pete Townshend
    9. "Fast Food" – 4:26 Vocals by Nina Simone
    10. "A Fool Says..." – 2:51 Vocals by Pete Townshend
    11. "Fire" (Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Mike Finesilver, Peter Ker) – 3:47 Performed by The Who
    12. "New Life/Reprise" – 6:00 Vocals by Chyna with Pete Townshend and Nicola Emmanuel. Contains small extract of a live performance of "Magic Bus"

    Bonus tracks from the 2006 US Hip-O Records release

    1. "Dig" (Simon Townshend vocal version) – 4:09
    2. "Man Machines" (long version) – 4:34
    3. "I Eat Heavy Metal" (demo) – 4:04

    Bonus tracks from the 2006 Japanese Imperial release

    1. "A Friend Is a Friend" (live at the Fillmore West, 1996)
    2. "All Shall Be Well" (live at the Fillmore West, 1996)

    Non-album tracks

    1. "Real World" (instrumental released on 12" and CD singles of "A Friend is a Friend", a different mix of it was on "Scoop 3" in 2001)
    2. "Penny Drop" (appeared on the Timothy White Radio Show; promo copies of the interview were pressed on vinyl by DIR Broadcasting)
    3. "Dig" (demo released on the 1989 UK CD single of "I Won't Run Anymore")
    4. "Iron Man Recitative", "Can You Really Dance?", and "Man and Machines (demo)" appeared on Scoop 3 in 2001
    5. "Dig" (concert version appeared on The Who's 1989 reunion tour concert album Join Together)

    Songs

    1I Won't Run Any MoreDeborah Conway4:51
    2Over the TopJohn Lee Hooker3:32
    3Man MachinesSimon Townshend0:42

    References

    The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete Townshend Wikipedia
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