Bring your daughter to the slaughter
Here it is!
Clue #1:
< Bruce is quoted to have said ""We're going to release this as a single on Christmas Eve to scare the
living daylights out of
Cliff Richard".
Clue #2: Smile Darn Ya Smile
< A song from
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? . Note that Jessica Rabbit appears on the cover of the single.
Clue #3: In the lyrics of this song, we can see the name of a British band in which a Maiden-related musician now plays.
< Dave "Bucket" Colwell, who co-wrote "Reach Out", has been playing with Humble Pie lately. // "Just empty words and humble pie"
Clue #4: Seven seconds away, just as long as I stay
< the following line of this Youssou N'Dour song ("Seven seconds") is "I'll Be Waiting" // "You just pray that I'll be waiting"
Clue #5:
"The Earth starts to rumble
World powers fall"
< these lines from Megadeth's "Symphony of Destruction" evoke the destruction of the world // "Honey it's getting close to midnight" (where midnight is the end of the world, as in 23:58)... yes, I know, a bit far-fetched.
Clue #6:
"Sweet Lucy was a dancer
But none of us would chance her
Because she was a samurai"
< the opening lines of Deep Purple's "Knockin' At Your Backdoor" // "Unchain your back door, invite me around"
Clue #7: this song celebrated an anniversary this year.
< it has been twenty years (two decades!!!) since Maiden last played the song, on the Gimme 'Ed Till I'm Dead tour.
Clue #8:
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< the band Humble Pie, live. (see clue #3)
Clue #9:
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< "Bite the pillow, make no sound"
Congratulations,
@Jmaster ! Your turn.