Iron Maiden Statistics

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Actually, Deja Vu has a solo (at the beginning)
I think it's more of a melodic intro part. Other songs written by Dave (like ''Still Life'', ''Fates Warning'', ''The Man Of Sorrows'') also have such intros, but they also have a Dave's solo.

Speaking of ''Deja-Vu'', I'm surprised that the song is without a proper solo (played by Dave, it's his song), because Somewhere In Time is the album with the least solos played by Dave - only 4!
 
Something for the statistics:
When "2 Minutes To Midnight" (LAD-version) is played EXTREMELY loud in an urban enviroment by midnight, at least 85% of the people around will be not happy.
When "Killers" (album version) is played the same level around 3 a.m., almost even 100% of the people around will be not happy.
 
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That is really helpful. If my neigbours play "die Katze, die dicke, dicke Katze" again at 3 a.m., I want to anger them.
 
That is really helpful. If my neigbours play "die Katze, die dicke, dicke Katze" again at 3 a.m., I want to anger them.
A song I never heard before of. Is it specific regional folk stuff? You're Germany based too, right? :hello: So what area you're from?
 
Yes, in Köln. I think it's a carnival song, but I'm no expert on that either. I only hear the lyrics through a wall. :rolleyes:

So that we are not accused of hijacking the thread:


-Number of months it took to rebuild Ed Force One: 10


-Cost to get Ed Force One ready for launch: $500000


-Weight of backline that had to be transported with it, including guitars, mixers and Eddie accessories: 12 tons


-Passenger capacity: 70


-Distance traveled for the first 23 shows: 80000 kilometers (twice around the world)


-Official flight number of Ed Force One: AEU666

(according to Classic Rock, special issue no. 4, my translation)
 
I didn't know where to post it, so I'm doing it here.

These pics represents the number of Maiden albums sold in the world (le monde) and in France (en France) since their releases.

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I want to make a slight correction on album songs that haven’t been played.

Back in the Village was played once. On the first date of World Slavery (Hala Torwar, Warsaw, Poland, August 9th 1984)
 
I didn't know where to post it, so I'm doing it here.

These pics represents the number of Maiden albums sold in the world (le monde) and in France (en France) since their releases.

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What is the source for that? Those numbers seem completely unreliable to me. There’s absolutely no way TNofB to have sold nearly 19 millions of units or any other of those ultra inflated numbers there. Nielsen would have detected it, RIAA would have Certified it. What is the current certification status for TNofB in US? Platinum? Double Platinum? What’s the Status in UK, Japan? Com’on we cannot claim such things without evidence.

PS: And what are the certifications in France? With all those huge sales they would have been very visible.
 
They do have some Certifications up to either Seventh Son or NPftD. Thus they did requests for audits during 80s when the bulk of sales occurred.

From early 90s fwd we have Nielsen scan which is more accurate and again nowhere near to indicating such a grandeur.
 
I want to make a slight correction on album songs that haven’t been played.

Back in the Village was played once. On the first date of World Slavery (Hala Torwar, Warsaw, Poland, August 9th 1984)
This has been discussed on the board before and it’s not really verified, although I find this to be one of the most interesting Maiden mysteries:

- World Slavery Tour is one of the few Iron Maiden tours where we don’t have a bootleg or some documentation of the first show. If it weren’t for the bootleg of the first Somewhere on Tour show, we would probably also have Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner on the never played list.

- Maiden always started the tour with 6 songs from the new album, it is odd that this wasn’t the case for Powerslave when it is the case for all other McBrain era 80s albums. So it makes sense that there may have been a 6th song on the first show.

- To add to the intrigue, Maiden had a camera crew with them for the Iron Curtain documentary, so it’s very possible that they have the footage of this show in the vault.

Another interesting thing worth considering is that the next time Maiden did a tour with less than six songs from the new album was for Fear of the Dark, and we are missing bootlegs from the first two shows of that tour. I often wonder if this was another instance of a song being cut after the first few shows.

Anyway, I tend to lean on the side that they probably did play a sixth song and Back in the Village seems like the most live ready of the three unplayed songs. But imo until we have audio evidence of it, it’s not a fact.
 
Maiden -> last full setlist with the Reunion era lineup:

1.Caught Somewhere In Time
2.Stranger In A Strange Land
3.The Writing On The Wall
4.Days Of Future Past
5.The Time Machine
6.The Prisoner
7.Death Of The Celts
8.Can I Play With Madness
9.Heaven Can Wait
10.Alexander The Great
11.Fear Of The Dark
12.Iron Maiden
Encore:
13.Hell On Earth
14.The Trooper
15.Wasted Years

Bruce, Steve, Nicko, Adrian, Dave, Janick! And Eddie! :)

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