goodnight from Iron Maiden..

[srfc]

Good night from Iron Maiden, from eddie and from the boys

What does this mean exactly?

Is it good night from Iron Maiden who are Eddie and the Boys i.e. the band or does it mean good night from Iron Maiden the band, from Eddie and from some other unknown group, the boys?

:dorky:

 

[Wogmidget]

I think you're reading a bit much into it

 

[phantomoftheicarus]

It's just Eddie and the band

 

[srfc]

I think you're reading a bit much into it

yeah probably, but for years I'd thought the boys meant the road crew then I realised it probably didn't

 

[Perun]

I always thought it would be a reference to something obscurely British that I didn't know about.

 

[Deleted member 7164]

Maybe it should be written as "g'night from Iron Maiden; from ed and from the boys" where it's clear that IM = ed + boys.

 

[Black Wizard]

Is it something that Bruce started or was Paul saying it at the end of 'Iron Maiden' too?

 

[Black Bart]

I always thought it would be a reference to something obscurely British that I didn't know about.

Politeness?

 

[srfc]

Is it something that Bruce started or was Paul saying it at the end of 'Iron Maiden' too?

I think Bruce, had a quick look on youtube for a Paul bootleg and there's no mention. Bruce does a proto version "good night from eddie and the boys" on Beast over Hammermsith.

Blaze didn't say it either on one bootleg i checked

 

[Perun]

Politeness?

Blimey, what's that supposed to mean, you tosser?

Spoiler

 

[Black Bart]

Blimey, what's that supposed to mean, you tosser?

Spoiler

Well, just saying good night to the audience and all that.

 

[Perun]

 

[The Flash]

It's the crew.

 

[GhostofCain]

It's the crew.

Nope, it refers to the band.

Bruce was asked about this on his BBC 6 Music Rock Show and said that the boys bit refers to them (i.e. the band members).

 

[Perun]

But who's Iron Maiden then?

 

[The Flash]

In that case "Iron Maiden" is a reference to its status as an entity.

 

[Black Bart]

At the end of the Raising Hell concert (marking Bruce's departure from the band in 1993) , there was a slight twist: "Good night from Iron Maiden... from myself: Bruce Dickinson, from Eddie and the boys".
I think this underlines the fact that this traditional final address involves Iron Maiden both as a group (whoever is in it) as well as a set of individuals. A bit like the distinction between body politic and body natural in the Shakespeare plays about kings.

 

[GhostofCain]

But who's Iron Maiden then?

Iron Maiden is the band plus Eddie.

 

[Perun]

You all have a good point.

 

[LooseCannon]

Can we please analyze this statement from both body politic and realpolitik points of view?