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Oops missed that instruction. Then it’s Age of Innocence for me.

Some songs have good lyrics but bad music, like the Apparition, which redeems it for me. There’s also abundant run of the mill tracks that are enjoyable enough but just very stock (eg Run Silent Run Deep) My list focuses on Maiden songs that are worse than average, but that I think have done...

I agree there are issues on the last 3 albums that are common. I also agree Bruce sings better on SJ than BOS, probably for very obvious reasons regarding his awful illness. It just comes down to this … I happen to prefer the longer songs on TFF, the second half of the album is sublime. It...

I like the album and I love HOE and WOW. Stratego, DFP and Time Machine also perfectly enjoyable. I also like the production, generally. However, four years later, the rest hasn't grown on me as much as I'd have hoped (as it usually does with Maiden albums). The title track plus the other...

Obviously this changes with the seasons and moods, here's my current ranking. Senjutsu has plummeted unfortunately, TFF and DOD have gone up after I recently bought the remastered CDs. 1. Somewhere In Time 2. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 3. A Matter Of Life And Death 4. Powerslave 5. Brave New...

Bruce will be at Waterstones Piccadilly London on Tuesday to sign copies. By total coincidence, I will be working very close by that day, but I'm not going to go to the signing (tickets online already sold out when it was announced). But I will probably walk past the queue I expect! Which will...

You can buy the issue online for £5, though I actually found a print copy in my local WH Smith (amazingly now renamed ‘TJ Jones’, a shock to any British person used to their local chain newsagents…!)

The Rock Candy interview - which for me is the best recent insight into Steve's thinking by far- trots out similar lines regarding having 'too many new ideas for one lifetime'. He event specifies how he has backed up his new ideas, semi-ideas, etc. The question is whether he wants to push...

Yes they forgot to include I live my way on best of the b sides, which massively pissed me off at the time. I had to buy a bootleg CD of the Blaze era to get the track on compact disc rather than vinyl (20 years ago..).

The Rock Candy interview is better - Steve doesn't rule out Maiden finding ways to avoid a 'hard stop'. He even speculates about just a few gigs a year to keep Maiden going in some way.

Great, that article is by the author of the first Maiden book, Running Free. The article reminds me I was in the audience for both Maiden gigs mentioned with total power cuts: - madison square garden 2008 - earl's court 2006 ! Tantalising quote for the ages, I think there's more to this than...

In the new Chris Jericho interview, Bruce clearly tries to shed personal responsibility for placing Aces in the encore. The question is if he is telling the truth or not, he may be, or may have changed his tune and is covering his tracks.

The Rock Candy interview is probably one of the very best I have read in a long time. For example: Steve would have liked to play Only the Good Die Young on the last tour, but then goes on to say without being specific that the singer has to be comfortable with the song choices to give the best...

loved that and yes, if TXF b sides are a cult then I’m a proud member. Great Blaze version.

Yep, backing from Absolva and Iced Earth-quality musicians is part of the story. Blaze deserves good audiences, a few hundred at least, but he powers through those shows when just dozens show up as well (I have seen a couple of them!).

Only Wolverhampton in UK

Who is seeing the X Factor anniversary shows later this year? Tempted to hear the Unbeliever live …

yes it was jarring when I first heard it in 2003 but I really like it. The fact Maiden can pull off the immense contrast in moods is quite something. I like the interpretation of the mocking tone by the way.

This is it: for the first time since the reunion I have a concern about ambition. Obviously ambition is absent at the moment to make new music, as far as we can tell. I also sense from some of Bruce’s many interview comments that he is reflecting again on the distance between Steve’s approach...

It’s the weakest of the three, doesn’t help I used to listen to it with picture disc crackle in the sound as the Man on the Edge b side. But Blazes voice is closest to his Wolfsbane days on I Live My Way, and his natural exuberance is sometimes missing on TXF