The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete Townshend


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.
The three then-surviving members of The Who performed as a group in two songs, "Dig" and "Fire", although the latter was a cover of The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown's hit.
"A Friend Is a Friend" and "I Won't Run Anymore" were commercially released as singles; "Fire" was issued as a promo-only single in the United States.
A stage version was mounted at the Young Vic theatre in London in 1993. On the strength of this, Warner Bros. 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

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" – 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

  14. "Dig" – 4:09
  15. "Man Machines" – 4:34
  16. "I Eat Heavy Metal" – 4:04

    Bonus tracks from the 2006 Japanese Imperial release

  18. "A Friend Is a Friend"
  19. "All Shall Be Well"

    Non-album tracks

  20. "Real World"
  21. "Penny Drop"
  22. "Dig"
  23. "Iron Man Recitative", "Can You Really Dance?", and "Man and Machines " appeared on Scoop 3 in 2001
  24. "Dig"