Guess The Iron Maiden Song!

[Vaenyr]

Reach Out

 

[Jmaster]

That Girl

 

[Black Bart]

No to both (the band referred in clue #5 is much bigger )

 

[MindRuler]

My Generation

 

[Black Bart]

Clue #1:
"My mama said
That your life is a gift"

Clue #2: these people don't know about contraception

Clue #3: Cops! - a roar from the riot squad

Clue #4: the song we are looking for is a cover

Clue #5: the original singer of the song we're looking for has collaborated with a band that has shared a stage with Maiden. A member of that band has also partly inspired a Maiden song from the album released two years after the song we're looking for.

Clue #6: Dave Murray himself is also personally related to the song we're looking for

Incorrect guesses: Juanita / Charlotte The Harlot / The Fugitive/ Seventh Son of a Seventh Son/ Blood Brothers/ The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg/ Cross-Eyed Mary/ Women in Uniform/ Reach Out/ That Girl/ My Generation

 

[Jmaster]

I'm a Mover?

Rodgers, Queen, Fear is the Key, Dave playing Kossoff's guitar...

 

[Black Bart]

I'm a Mover?

Rodgers, Queen, Fear is the Key, Dave playing Kossoff's guitar...

That's the one !

Clue #1:
"My mama said
That your life is a gift"
< these lyrics are from Lenny Kravitz's "Always on the Run" // "I've been moving since the day I was born"

Clue #2: these people don't know about contraception
< "found me a wife,
Eleven children and a real good life"

Clue #3: Cops! - a roar from the riot squad
< this is the title of a film in which Buster Keaton passes himself as a mover.

Clue #4: the song we are looking for is a cover
< self-explanatory

Clue #5: the original singer of the song we're looking for has collaborated with a band that has shared a stage with Maiden. A member of that band has also partly inspired a Maiden song from the album released two years after the song we're looking for.
< - Paul Rodgers, of Free, later collaborated with Brian May and Roger Taylor, as Queen+Paul Rodgers.
- Queen played at Rock in Rio I (1985) the same day as Iron Maiden.
- Freddie Mercury's death is referred to in the line "Nobody cares till somebody famous dies" ("Fear is the Key", on Fear of the Dark, 1992)

Clue #6: Dave Murray himself is also personally related to the song we're looking for
< indeed, Dave Murray bought a guitar that used to belong to Paul Kossof, the guitar player in Free. More information here.



Your turn, @Jmaster !

 

[Jmaster]

Clue 1:
The first verse of this song presents a paradox and a change.

 

[MindRuler]

Wasted Years

 

[Black Bart]

Murders in the Rue Morgue

 

[PhantomOfTheOpera]

Brave New World

 

[Jmaster]

Murders in the Rue Morgue

That is the correct answer! Your turn, @Black Bart

Clue explained:

Clue 1:
The first verse of this song presents a paradox and a change.

This clue refers to: a) obviously a word play, but still a paradox: "I remember it as plain as day although it happened in the dark of the night" line. b) a change in weather, as we're told it was "starting to rain".

 

[Black Bart]

Clue #1:

 

[Vaenyr]

That's how I feel listening to the amazing (albeit plagiarized) middle section in The Nomad

 

[Jmaster]

Another life

 

[Black Bart]

Another life

Of course it is!

The picture represents somebody who could say "As I lay here lying on the bed/ Sweet voices come into my head".

Your turn, @Jmaster

 

[Jmaster]

Clue 1:
This Maiden song has a signature part that is inspired by a well-known song by another band. This other band have released a version of their song on a live album with a name that will make you think of a Maiden album. If you know which album this is, you will find the Maiden song you're looking for on the following album.

 

[Black Bart]

Fear is the Key?

 

[Vaenyr]

Don't Look To The Eyes Of A Stranger

 

[Prowler]

Don't Look To The Eyes Of A Stranger

Don't talk to strangers --> DIO --> DIO live at Donnington (that's what I thought, when I saw your comment)