We are Iron Man! A lowbrow literary mystery. Was Black Sabbath’s Iron Man, as featured in the final seconds of the Iron Man trailer, inspired by Stan Lee’s Iron Man or Ted Hughes’ Iron Man or both or neither or something else? Very enjoyable piece of detective work. via BiNS
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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
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Pete Ashton
I vaguely recall Mark Sampson (he of Iron Man Records) saying that there’s a connection with Gormley’s Iron Man statue in Victoria Square, but I have a feeling the song predates the statue. Mark definitely knows his music trivia though.
Wikipedia have their own take on it… here… though that gets hotly debated in the comments section.
I think it’s about any of those but something much more basic, a teenage tantrum projected onto a grand scale.
“nobody wants him he just stares at the world planing his vengance that he will soon unfurl”. Then they’ll be sorry!
The awkward, lumbering Iron Man… possessing a great power you can barely control… seems a perfect metaphor for adolesence.