Artist: Pete Townshend
Album: The Iron Man: The Musical By Pete Townshend
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 1989/2016
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 47:36
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 1,05 GB

Tracklist:

01. Pete Townshend – I Won’t Run Anymore (04:51)
02. Pete Townshend – Over The Top (03:32)
03. Pete Townshend – Man Machines (00:42)
04. Pete Townshend – Dig (04:09)
05. Pete Townshend – A Friend Is A Friend (04:48)
06. Pete Townshend – I Eat Heavy Metal (03:59)
07. Pete Townshend – All Shall Be Well (04:02)
08. Pete Townshend – Was There Life (04:20)
09. Pete Townshend – Fast Food (04:26)
10. Pete Townshend – A Fool Says (02:51)
11. Pete Townshend – Fire (03:48)
12. Pete Townshend – New Life (06:03)

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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.

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.Pete Townshend adapted “The Iron Man,” a children’s fable written by the British poet Ted Hughes, for his sixth studio solo album, Iron Man: A Musical. Casting himself, Roger Daltrey, Nina Simone, and John Lee Hooker in leading roles, the album doesn’t suffer from a lack of talent, it suffers from a lack of songs. Townshend has failed to come up with a set of compelling melodies for Hughes’ poems and the arrangements are obvious and overblown, making Iron Man an overwrought, ambitious failure. –AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine