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I don't read any rock or metal music mags because there are not that many bands I'm interested in reading about (I prefer drumming magazines), however I came across the February issue of Rock Hard today and the front cover prominently features the "Iron Maiden" cover and a big headline reading "32-page special feature: History of the Beast"! I couldn't believe my luck and grabbed the issue just to get this special, and it was well worth the money: there's a LOT of biographical text in there, not just big pictures and little headlines. The mini-mag covers the complete history of Iron Maiden starting with Steve Harris' initial attempts at making music with his friends, and detailing every step and person on Maiden's way to world domination. I know a lot about Maiden already but there is a lot of stuff in that mag that I've never heard before. It also features many old (possibly rare?) photos of many people involved with Steve, old gig ads, album covers... I know that this news is not very useful to many people here since the mag is only available in German AFAIK, but maybe I'll come up with some partial scans and translations later. I've just read five pages so far