The Iron Man: The Musical By Pete Townshend

The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete Townshend is the sixth solo studio album by Pete Townshend of the Who, released in 1989 as a concept album adaptation of Ted Hughes' science fiction novel The Iron Man. The album features vocal performances from Roger Daltrey, Deborah Conway, John Lee Hooker, and Nina Simone, who all perform characters from Hughes' novel. Two songs found Townshend reunited with his bandmates from the Who, singer Roger Daltrey and bassist John Entwistle, who perform on "Dig" and "Fire". The Who would later perform "Dig" live during their 1989 reunion tour. "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. Cashbox said "A Friend is a Friend" was a highlight on the album, and "finds Pete in an uplifting vein, with falsetto vocals and strummed guitar." A stage version was mounted at the Young Vic theatre in London in 1993. On the strength of the theatrical production, Warner Bros. optioned the story for a film which was eventually adapted into the animated film The Iron Giant. Townshend received an executive-producer credit on the film. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iro...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)