Iron Maiden - College Project!

Hello guys and girls,

I'm doing a project about Bruce Dickinson and Iron Maiden at college and I'm just wondering if you could give as much information as you can about the band, please? (this is for primary research)

Hope this isn't too much to ask.

Thank you very much.

Tyler
 
NP beat me to it.

What kind of research are you doing? In other words, what kinds of resources are you looking for? What questions do you need answered?
 
NP beat me to it.

What kind of research are you doing? In other words, what kinds of resources are you looking for? What questions do you need answered?

I'm looking for primary research (Asin finding information out about the band from other people not from Wikipedia and stuff if you get me?
 
So, here's the thing. You're going to find that in this forum, there are many of us who have degrees, and many of us who have, or are working on, advanced degrees. Pretty much all we're missing is an MD and a DDS and we'd run the field of disciplines.

Unless you're researching people's opinions, which we actually had a fellow working on a thesis researching the opinions of Iron Maiden fans, we're going to tell you that the best research is from reliable websites. IMC is the number one source for Iron Maiden information on the internet.

Other reliable sources include Run to the Hills by Mick Wall, the authorized biography.
 
^ to add to that, most of the Wikipedia info has actually been proven so if you are questioning wiki, ask someone as many of us here have seen them live, met them, or been fans for over a decade, sometimes more than one :eek:
 
Wikipedia is not an academically citeable source. Any college student citing Wiki would get his work marked down. There are many reasons for this, and reliability is not the top one.

I would not recommend the IMC either - not because it is not a good website (we all know it's amazing), but because its author uses a nickname and because what it contains are oftentimes opinions presented as facts. There is, however, an exception - the IMC is a brilliant source of magazine interviews from throughout the band's career. It includes many hard to find interviews from the 1980s, for example, and its particular strength is that many are translated from French magazines, hence a unique source for these rare items.

The go-to sources are, apart from magazine interviews, the two official biographies (Running Free by Gary Bushell - a terrible piece of 80s tabloid journalism - and Run to the Hills by Mick Wall) and the history documentaries on the recent DVDs (contain some new revelations). You can also look for individual band member biographies or autobiographies, they exist for Paul, Bruce, Blaze and Steve, with varying degree of acclaim and quality. I can also recommend the book Infinite Dreams by Dave Bowler and Bryan Dray. It was written in the mid-nineties, but it is an interesting attempt at creating a Maiden biography based on magazine interviews embedded in the socio-historical context of the seventies and eighties. Any other publication I'm aware of is mostly either redundant as a source of information, or a random collection of anecdotes from people who were there somehow sometime.

However, I must admit that I don't know what a 'college project' is. Are you doing a presentation? A term paper? Something else?
 
^ I did not know that. I never did a research paper in college so I guess I wouldn't know. Thanks for the tip. Good info for sure so I don't steer others into disaster :facepalm:
 
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