To accompany the opening of the new musical, a recording was released of the original cast of Starlight Express. The record sleeve states:
- "This recording contains the main songs from "Starlight Express", which opened at the Apollo Victoria Theatre on March 27th 1984. It was recorded live in the theatre over three performances in April 1984 and subsequently at Audio International Studios, London."
- - Andrew Lloyd Webber
The album is dedicated "to Imogen and Nicholas and that day on the Valley Railroad". This is a reference to Andrew Lloyd Webber's children, for whom he wrote the show.
- Starlight Express in the theatre runs about two hours twenty minutes. The Cassette of the double album will take about one hour forty minutes before it bursts. So we've had to streamline the show a little, though the story and the dream are the same. Of course, if you come round to the theatre we could tell you some more, who wins the other races, and all about Control, who owns the railroad. But that would all be strictly off the record.
- - Richard Stilgoe
The recording was released on Double LP, Double Cassette, and Double CD. It was re-mastered and re-released in 2005 on Double CD.
StEx London 1984 - TV Commercial
Cover from the original 1984 LP release.
Song List
Act 1
- Overture
- Rolling Stock
- Call Me Rusty (incorporates "Taunting Rusty")
- A Lotta Locomotion (incorporates "Rusty, You Can't Be Serious")
- Pumping Iron
- Freight
- AC/DC *
- He Whistled At Me ** (incorporates "Hitching and Switching")
- The Race
- There's Me (incorporates "That Was Unfair")
- Poppa's Blues (incorporates "Rusty Why You Looking Sad")
- Belle the Sleeping Car
- Starlight Express (incorporates "Starlight Express Intro")
Act 2
- The Rap
- U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D. (incorporates "Pearl Twirl")
- Rolling Stock (reprise)
- C.B. (incorporates "I Was Robbed")
- Right Place, Right Time **
- I Am The Starlight
- He Whistled At Me (reprise) (incorporates "Rusty and Dustin")
- Race: The Final
- No Comeback **
- One Rock & Roll Too Many
- Only He
- Only You (incorporates "Rusty King of the Track")
- Light at the End of the Tunnel
* Produced by Alan Shacklock
** Remixed by Dave MacKay
Cast List
| Rusty | Ray Shell | Pearl | Stephanie Lawrence |
| Greaseball | Jeff Shankley | Dinah | Frances Ruffelle |
| Electra | Jeffrey Daniel | Buffy/Control | Nancy Wood |
| Poppa/Starlight Express | Lon Satton | Ashley | Chrissy Wickham |
| Rocky 1/Gang | Danny John Jules | Krupp/Gang | Eddie Kemp |
| Rocky 2/Gang | Attlee Baptiste | Wrench | Carole Amphlett |
| Rocky 3/Gang | Richard Bodkin | Purse/Gang | Koffi Missah |
| Flat-top/Gook | Paul Reeves | Volta/Sleeper | Voyd |
| Dustin/Gang | Gary Love | Joule/Sleeper | Debbie Wake |
| C.B. | Michael Staniforth | Belle | P. P. Arnold |
| Bobo/Lube | Tom Jobe | Turnov/Gang | Bobby Collins |
| Espresso | Ruel George Campbell | Hashamoto/Gang | Drue Williams |
| Weltschaft/Tank | Mark Davis | City of Milton Keynes | Raymond Hatfield |
| Swing | Eleanor Bertram | Swing | Uduak Ephraim |
| Swing | Sebastian Craig | Swing | Pollyanna Buckingham |
Trivia
Sarah Brightman vocals can be heard during the song AC/DC, singing the high notes she is known for within the background alongside the components.
