Official New Album and Songs Titles

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Forostar said:
About this:
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"'The Longest Day'. perhaps based on the ww2 film of the same name. suggests a battle, possibly the last one?"
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"The Longest Day" is indeed a film, which is based on the same titled book by Cornelius Ryan.
It's about Operation Overlord (better known as D-Day which was 6th of June, 1944). It's not just a battle but THE most important military operation of WWII, or even of the last couple of centuries (at least from an European point of view).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Day_%28book%29 (book)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Day_%28film%29 (film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Overlord (info on the operation)


Actually it's the WWII event that I am most interested in, so if this song is really about the events of 06-06-1944, I am very glad that my favorite band pays tribute to it! :)
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"The Longest Day":

Bruce: "It's about D-Day and the kind of ordeals that 18-year-old kids were put through to accomplish what they did that day. It's something that we're not exposed to now. Yes, there are people who go and do extraordinary things and wrestle hand to hand with Taliban guys in Tora Bora armed only with a knife. But we don't know how they do it because it's hidden. Most of these kids on D-Day were 18, and they had six months to be turned into these fighting machines. So the song is a musical version of 'Saving Private Ryan', in a sense."
 
"Remember the rumor that one of the songs was based on an author, or perhaps a book?
"Lord Of Light" is an old science-fiction book from 1967 by Roger Zelazny."

Well Bruce has said it's about if Lucifer was the lord of light and god was just a kind of PR exercise so to speak it sounds like it could be about the Michael Cordy book "Lucifer" which has the same story. I haven't heard the song yet so I can't be sure
 
national acrobat said:
From Wikipedia:

Ron Maiden (real name Benjamin Breegs) is a British Heavy Metal window-cleaner, born Feb. 29th 1975 in London, Transylvania, etc.
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Hi there, mates!

Well, this is the first time I post here, and I guess it won't be the last, as I'm carrying out a research on the literary influences on Iron Maiden's lyrics.

Just like you, I'm also following the track of this Benjamin Breegs. I have looked for far and wide, with as many different spellings as you can imagine, and so far I've found out this:

1) Ron Maiden doesn't exist. So, he cannot be also called BENJAMIN BREEG, because he doesn't exist.
2) In the Wikipedia, when you look for "Dennis Stratton", it doesn't mention anywhere that he's called "BENJAMIN BREEGS" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Stratton)

3) The MARY CELESTE boat. The captain was called BENJAMIN BRIGGS. It might be a different spelling or something ... anyway, that boat blew out around 1873. No connection with World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste)


4) Maybe this has nothing to do, but ... who knows? I found a webpage talking about a city in Lincolnshire called BRIGG. Many WWII RAF pilots are buried there, among them, some whose surname is MURRAY.  Coincidence?

This name of Benjamin Breeg sounds like a pun, especially the surname. Remember the song "Public Enema Nr 1"... Couldn't it be spelt as "BREAG", or be a short form of "brigadier"??????
 
balderdavid said:
1) Ron Maiden doesn't exist. So, he cannot be also called BENJAMIN BREEG, because he doesn't exist.
2) In the Wikipedia, when you look for "Dennis Stratton", it doesn't mention anywhere that he's called "BENJAMIN BREEGS" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Stratton)
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I would hope that you did see the joke behind these two theories about Benjamin Breeg. I mean, a heavy metal window cleaner. :huh:
 
Albie said:
I would hope that you did see the joke behind these two theories about Benjamin Breeg. I mean, a heavy metal window cleaner. :huh:
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What?  Heavy Metal Window Cleaner is a perfectly legitimate job...you just plug in outside and use the bass knob to flip your overdrive off so the waves shake the dirt off...but there's not much of the window left afterwards, unfortunately. :D
 
Conor said:
I was joking when I was making his allegation.

Great first post balderdavid, as Maverick said, get me a fix :P
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The main problem with this Benjamin Breeg's stuff is, in my opinion, that some people (maybe even the band) is trying to drop around some "probe balloons" so that people keep on following wrong tracks.

Try to Google this (quotation marks included):  "Breeg" -reincarnation -maiden WWII

You will realise that this name almost disappears. Only matches are those from the Netherlans, which make reference to the village of BREE in L.O.T.R., someone who has chosen it as a nickname to post in a forum, or a boy who says to look for his lost cousin.

I tend to think that these boys of I.M. simply made up a character similar to the protagonist of "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and unleashed him (or it) in the net. "Let the fans have fun speculating, but let's give'em first some false clues to see how they dispair googeling around" - seems to have been their idea.

Stay tuned ... Breeg is round the corner ...
Maverick said:
balderdavid, whatever you're on... I want some too!  :dancinggeek:
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Boy, "so far" it's over 250 pages, and I haven't finished it yet, not even half of what I thing there is in there. But be sure that, as soon as I finish (I'm trying to, hahahahahaha... contact the band to tell me if I'm following the right tracks), I'll translate it into English (will take about two weeks), upload it and put a link here.
 
Benny Breeg has got his own topic, and this one is now old news... and therefore closed.

Thanks for your contribution.
 
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