Pete Townshend - The Iron Man (1989/2016) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

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. 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.

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.

Tracklist:

01 - I Won't Run Anymore
02 - Over The Top
03 - Man Machines
04 - Dig
05 - A Friend Is A Friend
06 - I Eat Heavy Metal
07 - All Shall Be Well
08 - Was There Life
09 - Fast Food
10 - A Fool Says
11 - Fire
12 - New Life

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


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