Decibel Geek TV has uploaded video footage from IRON MAIDEN’s performance at the Sweden Rock Festival in Sölvesborg, Sweden on June 7th. Watch HERE.
Since their explosion on the scene in the early eighties IRON MAIDEN have been hailed as one of the UK’s greatest live acts of all time with their fiery brand of music, spectacle and live performance all of which has excited their fans around the planet for over three decades.
Since their explosion on the scene in the early eighties IRON MAIDEN have been hailed as one of the UK’s greatest live acts of all time with their fiery brand of music, spectacle and live performance all of which has excited their fans around the planet for over three decades.
Due to substance abuse issues, vocalist Paul Di’Anno was dismissed from Iron Maiden after the Killer World Tour in 1981. His replacement was Bruce Dickinson, another former Samson member who joined that September and made his recorded debut with the band on 1982’s groundbreaking The Number of the Beast. Boasting songs such as the title track and “Hallowed Be Thy Name,” it became known as one of the all-time great rock albums. Though it was the band’s first chart-topping album in the U.K. and was a Top Ten seller in several other countries, Christian activists and conservative politicians in America claimed the band was Satanic (which Iron Maiden denied). Nevertheless, The Number of the Beast’s success made Iron Maiden international superstars, and despite the replacement of Burr with former Trust drummer Nicko McBrain, they changed very little of their style on 1983’s Piece of Mind. The band undertook two major tours before recording 1984’s Powerslave, which would go on to be another cult hit and featured the 13-minute epic “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” which was inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem. The product of Powerslave’s 11-month tour was 1985’s Live After Death, a double-live album featuring their biggest hit singles.
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