The three then-surviving original members of The Who (Daltrey,
John Entwistle, and Townshend) 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. (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. Cash Box said that "A Friend is a Friend" "finds Pete in an uplifting vein, with falsetto vocals and strummed guitar."[4]
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.