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It’s actually refreshing to hear that he wants to switch off from music. I think this is one of the reasons he has continued for so long. As a music teacher, people always assume I want to be doing musical things. No is the answer to that!

Every time I see this album, I always think of the radio host on GTA Vice City Stories who shouts at his co-host at the end of the song, ‘Lazlow, get over there and put your balls to the wall!’ I can still hear it nearly 20 years later! That game introduced me to Accept. What a great band!

I think Maiden England 2014 was just a chance for them to get playing together before recording Book of Souls in the autumn.

Surely they will take the show to Download. It will probably be their most Download friendly setlist since 2003. 2020 would have also been a festival friendly setlist.

I am pumped for London. I was giving my friends a song by song update when the setlist was being revealed. They were most excited for the ‘classics’. I don’t blame them. They are great songs. Sure I would have loved Infinite Dreams or some other deep cut, but I feel this tour is trying to cater...

This morning I grabbed my copy of Best of the Beast and put it on the CD player. Other than being a great intro to Maiden as a 8 year old back in the day, I still think the single disc copy holds up as a great introduction to the band. I have other Maiden compilations in the collection and this...

Probably kills their battery life…

I didn’t realise that is how Blaze started. I thought he just put an ad in the paper. How did the retainer come about?

Very jealous! Big gigs are now out of my price range. I saw them at Reading Festival 2008 and they were amazing.

Listening to the whole album, but this song is always a standout. An absolute masterpiece.

I suppose he was caught between a rock and a hard place. He obviously wanted to create a band identity, but needed a name that drew attention to his previous fame with Maiden. It must have been hard for his band members at the time. Being in a band but always feeling like being a backing musician.

Thank you! It was a good starting point for a chat I had with him once :)

I agree. I came to the album late. I had been a fan since around 1998 and only heard the abridge live performance of Running Free from my well-worn Best of the Beast CD. I got the album around 2008. I thought I should be clued up for the SBIT tour. After all, it’s had just got the DVD. I was a...

My objection to Aces High is that Bruce can’t do it justice anymore. He was good singing it in 2018 (hit and miss), but has been poor ever since. It doesn’t help when they stick it in the encore and don’t downtune.