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LooseCannon said:
Is not 22 one of the songs supposedly ghost-written by Bruce, though he was not allowed to receive a credit due to some contractual crap with Samson?
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Nope. Those are 'Children of the Damned', 'The Prisoner', 'Run To The Hills' and 'Gangland', as Jer has already pointed out.
 
Mosh said:
It might be worth mentioning that Bruce assaulted a model on stage a year later.
http://www.ironmaidencommentary.com/?url=tour04_pom/bootlegs04_pom&lang=eng&link=tours#1983-08-07

I dunno, a lot of rock bands in the 80s could be pretty objectifying toward women. It was a product of the times.
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Maiden were certainly not the worst offenders, but they sometimes did objectify women (early promotional pictures of Eddie with scantily clad women, some of the Can I Play with Madness promotional shots...). A product of the times, but one that is not particularly nice.
 
GhostofCain said:
Exactly, that is the source. I am well aware of the Bruce Dickinson Well-being Network as I was a follower and then active contributor since their early days. :)
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Yeah, sorry, the quote wasn't intended to suggest that you weren't aware; I was just referencing your comment since I was reinforcing it with the source material.
 
Jer said:
Yeah, sorry, the quote wasn't intended to suggest that you weren't aware; I was just referencing your comment since I was reinforcing it with the source material.
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No need to apologise!

That website and yours were a fantastic source of information for Bruce fans in the early days of the internet. :)
 
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GhostofCain said:
Maiden were certainly not the worst offenders, but they sometimes did objectify women (early promotional pictures of Eddie with scantily clad women, some of the Can I Play with Madness promotional shots...). A product of the times, but one that is not particularly nice.
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Don't forget the "contest" that enabled the winner to move around on stage, dressed in not much, on "22AA" on the Beast On The Road Tour (cf Early Days DVD and 12WY). :facepalm: It has been suggested somewhere that a local Amercian Miss Whatever complained about her treatment but was paid off to keep her mouth shut.

Still a few steps above Mötley Crue who actually shot porn photo shoots with the models in the mid-80s.
 
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Interesting.

Bruce distinctly says he had a bigger contribution on "the three" than on Gangland. He says:

"Those three songs were the songs in which I had the biggest moral contribution"

and

"I had a very big moral contribution on "Gangland" too.

"The biggest" and "very big".

The biggest (Children/Hills/Prisoner):
Perhaps Bruce wrote the lyrics and had something to do with a melody (e.g. vocal melody) as well.

Very big (Gangland):
Perhaps just the lyrics.

Naturally that's just a farfetched guess, his contributions on the songs could be anything.
But it is clear to me that he had a bigger contribution on "the three" than on Gangland.
 
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Forostar said:
The biggest (Children/Hills/Prisoner):
Perhaps Bruce wrote the lyrics and had something to do with a melody (e.g. vocal melody) as well.
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According to Paul Samson Bruce stole some of the music for Children from him, my guess would be the clean tone chord sequence, but maybe the heavy chorus as well.
 
Forostar said:
"The biggest" and "very big".

The biggest (Children/Hills/Prisoner):
Perhaps Bruce wrote the lyrics and had something to do with a melody (e.g. vocal melody) as well.
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Bruce wrote the melody for the Run to the Hills chorus after hearing about the rising sixth and using My Way as a template:

 
I'm not paying 50 british dollar bills for a woman who nowadays is well into her 70s no matter how skilled she is.
 
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