Iron Maiden News, Links, and Interviews

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Shared by a fb page - handwritten answers to questions from Steve, Bruce, Dave and Nicko from 1983 (Steve also from 1982). No Adrian, unfortunately. Such stuff is always curious.

Favorite Maiden song

Steve - Phantom (1982), Hallowed (1983)
Bruce - Children Of The Damned
Dave - To Tame A Land
Nicko - Where Eagles Dare or Die With Your Boots On

Favorite bands

Steve - Golden Earring, Jethro Tull
Bruce - Deep Purple
Dave - Deep Purple
Nicko - all heavy metal!

Favorite album

Steve - Foxtrot
Bruce - Made In Japan
Dave - Burn
Nicko - Ocean Boulevard

... and other things
 
Not exactly a band-related news, but I think this one's worth a spot here.

Guy, better known through his nickname Maverick (or Mav), the writer and curator of The Iron Maiden Commentary, sadly is no longer with us. He passed away on Christmas' Eve, aged 60 (he was born in 1964).
Mav had taken over The Iron Maiden Commentary from the original founder Baeleron and managed both the website (updates stopped in 2011) and the Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/theironmaidencommentary/posts/pfbid02z1GoZU7fMvjZ5YdmYh8kJw9z1CK9RG7AQyGzhMXBJw9VbSxJdJDmvjNNtTkzLbcTl

'Life down here is just a strange illusion'
 
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We made a timeline of everything that’s happened in human history using only Iron Maiden songs

Iron Maiden have written songs about dinosaurs, the Second World War and many, many things in between. So, here’s the history of Planet Earth as told through the metal legends’ lyrics.
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www.loudersound.com

We made a timeline of everything that’s happened in human history using only Iron Maiden songs

Iron Maiden have written songs about dinosaurs, the Second World War and many, many things in between. So, here’s the history of Planet Earth as told through the metal legends’ lyrics.
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Cool find, an interview with Steve from 1989 about Maiden England concert video. The footage and the cameras.

The curious bits:

- he listed his 5 favorite music videos.
- he thinks Bruce's debut solo album is good rock.
- he said some A.S.A.P. songs like ''The Lion'' and perhaps ''After The Storm'' could have been used in Maiden. ''Silver And Gold'' didn't felt right for Maiden and he didn't like the song ''Wishing Your Life Away'' and one part from ''Fallen Heroes''. Overall, it's not a bad album for him.
- he liked ''Bring Your Daughter'' right away.
- about solo music in general, he said he wants to use his best ideas for Maiden, if you write a solo song you want it to be your best.
- he didn't want ME to replicate most of the songs from LAD and be a double live lp. The stripped down live show is mentioned, for which he said they couldn't make their show bigger than the Seventh Son tour.
- it seems he/the band had the idea to drop ''Infinite Dreams'' form the set, so that's why they released it as a live single.

It's always great to read old interviews, especially with such interesting stuff. I've always wanted to know more about Steve's opinion on the solo music of the band.
 

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Interesting thought about Infinite Dreams. Maybe it was too hard for Bruce even back in the 1988. Could explain dropping it from the ME tour. Maybe there just isn’t that much love for the song in the band?
 
Kalata said:
- he said some A.S.A.P. songs like ''The Lion'' and perhaps ''After The Storm'' could have been used in Maiden. ''Silver And Gold'' didn't felt right for Maiden and he didn't like the song ''Wishing Your Life Away'' and one part from ''Fallen Heroes''. Overall, it's not a bad album for him.
- he liked ''Bring Your Daughter'' right away.
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Great thanks. I always though 'The Lion' for sure was a Maiden tune in disguise. Interesting to read Steve thought they could have used 'After the Storm'. But I think all ASAP songs were co-credited, so I wonder if the core of the idea was Adrian's or not?
 
srfc said:
I think the Infinite Dreams comment "we wanted to get it on vinyl before we drop it from our live set" means no more than it was unlikely to be in the set on the next tour
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I guess this.
Helmuth Von Moltke said:
Great thanks. I always though 'The Lion' for sure was a Maiden tune in disguise. Interesting to read Steve thought they could have used 'After the Storm'. But I think all ASAP songs were co-credited, so I wonder if the core of the idea was Adrian's or not?
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I also think that ''The Lion'' could have been used in Maiden. ''After The Storm'' is a different song, so yeah, Steve's comment is curious. The chorus could be Maidenized, methinks. It could have been Maiden's semi-ballad from the 80's. Adrian wanted to write one in the 80's.

True about all songs being co-credited, but Adrian had some of them since the mid-80's (3-4, including Wasted Years), so they were his demo songs at first. And Steve mentioned that Adrian had suggested the title track to him a few years back, so around '85-'86.
 
srfc said:
I think the Infinite Dreams comment "we wanted to get it on vinyl before we drop it from our live set" means no more than it was unlikely to be in the set on the next tour
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Honestly, this interview from 40 years ago doesn't mean anything about RFYL. Unless Steve still thinks the same things he did when he was in his 30s.
 
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