Guess The Iron Maiden Song!

Clue #1: Died destitute and penniless
Clue #2: First of its kind
Clue #3: That filthy bloody ape
Clue #4: Ratiocination remedies the enigma



Incorrect guesses: Charlotte the Harlot; Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Phantom of the Opera; The Prisoner; Empire of the Clouds; Stranger in a Strange Land; The Red and the Black; Alexander the great; Quest for Fire.
 
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Clue #1: Died destitute and penniless
Clue #2: First of its kind
Clue #3: That filthy bloody ape
Clue #4: Ratiocination remedies the enigma
Clue #5: Parisian constabulary.



Incorrect guesses: Charlotte the Harlot; Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Phantom of the Opera; The Prisoner; Empire of the Clouds; Stranger in a Strange Land; The Red and the Black; Alexander the great; Quest for Fire; Brighter Than a Thousand Suns; Age of Inocence; Children of the Damned.
 
I just can't see what "1st of its kind"and the Planet of The Apes (or Charlton Heston) have to do with the song. The 1st one is regarding E. A. Poe , so as Tale of Ratiocination and the last one("Gendarme") was blatant
 
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karljant said:
Murders in The Rue Morgue
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Correct!

First, while it gets its name from the Edgar Allen Poe story the lyrics to Maiden’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue” don’t match the plotline of the story.

Clue #1: Died destitute and penniless. In 1849 Edgar Allen Poe died in a state of delirium while wearing ill fitting clothes presumed to have been loaned to him from someone else. It’s estimated that despite his fame, Poe only earned about $6200 during his entire writing career and had little or no money of his own at the time of his death.
Clue #2: First of its kind - The Murders in the Rue Morgue is widely considered the first modern detective story.
Clue #3: That filthy bloody ape: The culprit in Poe’s story was
an orangutan
Clue #4: Ratiocination remedies the enigma. A central theme of the story is the power of deductive reasoning and the Protagonist, C. Auguste Dupin, expands upon the topic at the beginning of the story. Here Poe essentially set the initial premise for over a century of detective plots wherein sleuths use logic to solve crimes.
Clue #5: Parisian constabulary. Yep, this was a gimme! Gendarmes feature both in the story and the song.
 
mmmm didn't know that. Nice ;)

Now let's see:

clue#1: Please take heed unless you wish
to plunge into Hade's abyss
the Notre Dame is indeed my mother
yet centuries older and I'm a traveller
 
Uh.

Take heed - Phantom of the Opera or Fear of the Dark
Abyss - Powerslave
Notre Dame - Murders in the Rue Morgue (because it’s French)
Mother - Brave New World
Centuries - Montségur
Traveler - Stranger In a Strange Land

Jesus Christ. Um, Phantom I guess.
 
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