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https://www.loudersound.com/music/tracks-singles/iron-maiden-story-behind-song-man-on-the-edge

A couple of additional links reporting Bruce’s visit to the cottage: https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/legendary-iron-maiden-rock-star-bruce-dickinson-calls-for-urgent-support-to-restore-blakes-cottage-near-bognor-regis-5444632...

@Azas You will probably like this. I take my hat off to these guys. The world would be a better place if more millionaires were like them!

Nice interview, thanks for sharing it!

If I am not mistaken, there are also not that many vinyl pressing plants, which contributes to the increase in price.

I am as puzzled as you are!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/15/jose-antonio-kast-wins-election-chile-president Oh dear...

On a related note, does anyone know why vinyl albums are so extortionately expensive these days? I was at HMV last Saturday, saw Live After Death and was tempted to get it until I saw the price was £49.99!! I came out of the shop with a couple of CDs for £16 instead.

I did not know where to post this. Really sad news. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz0np02znezo

I know. It also landed at #1 on the chart for releases including a replica 24 page World Slavery Tour programme. ;)

That is not the official albums chart, just a subsection of it. You can find the top 100 here: https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/20251205/7502/ It got to #10 on the album sales chart and the physical album sales chart, and #5 on the vinyl albums chart...

Yeah. I would have thought they could have told Rod: “We are not playing that song”, but it seems that after the lacklustre performances they are quite eager to blame him. “He is a Yorkshire man, he can take it” to (partially) quote them.

You are such a party pooper breaking the PR hype!

If that is the case, it beggars belief that the manager and not the musicians playing the song drove the decision based on some kind of stage set gimmick!

If we want to be anal, we can highlight that Where Eagles Dare was dropped from the selist during the 1993 tour and was not played in Dublin (I am assuming this is the show you went to; sorry if that was not the case). Definitely an unplayed rarity for you (and me) until 2005. :P

What about For the Greater Good of God and Where Eagles Dare? Those surely were played live fewer times than Rime of the Ancient Mariner or Seventh Son of a Seventh Son post-1993…

He is still very much part of the band, hence them getting the Iron Maiden support slot.

Nice to see Eddie with Nicko!

Agreed. The overlap with the setlists of some previous tours was significant (12 of those songs were already played on the SBIT tour in 2008 and 11 on the Maiden England tour in 2013). Legacy of the Beast is probably the best tour they have ever done, from the stage props to a set representing...