IRON MAIDEN – Fan Filmed Live Footage In Germany

“If Eternity Should Fail”
“Speed Of Light”
“Wrathchild”
“Children Of The Damned”
“Death Or Glory”
“The Red And The Black”
“The Trooper”
“Powerslave”
“The Great Unknown”
“The Book Of Souls”
“Fear Of The Dark”
“Iron Maiden”

Encore:
“The Number Of The Beast”
“Blood Brothers”
“Wasted Years”

Formed in 1976 by bassist Steve Harris (b. March 12, 1957, London) and guitarist Dave Murray (b. Dec. 23, 1958, London), Iron Maiden has had a revolving-door lineup of musicians. The first incarnation of the band was inspired by the do-it-yourself punk ethos, and the group released an EP, The Soundhouse Tapes, on its own label, Rock Hard Records. Iron Maiden, the band’s 1980 debut album for major label Capitol Records, was pure, unadulterated, screaming heavy metal. It reached the Top Five in Britain; the following year’s Killers went to Number 12. America was slower to embrace the denim- and leather-clad group, which distinguished itself from its peers with unusually literate songs (written by Harris) full of hellish imagery (the melting faces in “Children of the Damned”), with themes borrowed from films (“The Number of the Beast,” inspired by The Omen II) and ancient mythology (“Flight of Icarus”). Iron Maiden was one of the few bands of any genre to employ a mascot, a ten-foot rotting corpse named Eddie.

The Number of the Beast, featuring new vocalist Bruce Dickinson (b. Paul Bruce Dickinson, Aug. 7, 1958, Worksop, Eng.), topped the album chart in Britain and initiated a streak of seven consecutive platinum or gold albums in the United States, despite virtually no radio or MTV exposure. The followup, 1983’s Piece of Mind, reached Number 14 on Billboard’s Pop Albums chart, and 1984’s Powerslave went to Number 21 on the Billboard 200. By then, Iron Maiden were superstars of heavy metal and remained in the Top 25 of Billboard’s dominant album chart for several subsequent releases: Live After Death (Number 22, 1985), Somewhere In Time (Number 23, 1987), Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (Number 12, 1988), No Prayer for the Dying (Number 17, 1990), Fear of the Dark (Number 12, 1992). No Prayer for the Dying was Maiden’s last studio album to go gold in the U.S.; it contained “Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter,” a song originally recorded by Dickinson alone for the Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 5 soundtrack. Dickinson’s solo version went to Number One in the U.K. Guitarist Adrian Smith (b. Feb. 27, 1957, London), who had joined in 1980, left in 1990 to form A.S.A.P. with drummer Zak Starkey, son of Ringo Starr. Janick Gers replaced Smith. Dickinson left in 1993, replaced by Blaze Bayley. – Rolling Stone

Source: BW&BK

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