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yeahitsmilo said:
My CD copy of Somewhere in Time says it is Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame (and of course the video for Can I Play with Madness)
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Funny, mine doesn't. I've always been pretty sure it was Bruce. It doesn't sound much like Chapman.
 
Ruflux said:
Relating to this, has Bruce actually done any of the spoken intros on a Maiden song? I'm trying to think off hand here and I can't think of any.
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He is the one reading the poetry in the intro tape used for Paschendale and Dance of Death live, although I guess you probably meant spoken intros on album versions of songs?
 
He also quoted Tennyson's Light Brigade before The Trooper in Rock in Rio, but I don't think it counts.

BTW, Powerslave's intro sounds like distorted Bruce to me, too.
 
GhostofCain said:
He is the one reading the poetry in the intro tape used for Paschendale and Dance of Death live, although I guess you probably meant spoken intros on album versions of songs?
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Yes. Otherwise you obviously get stuff like those two, and arguably a handful of songs on Rock in Rio which sort of fit the bill, but not really.
 
Ruflux said:
Relating to this, has Bruce actually done any of the spoken intros on a Maiden song? I'm trying to think off hand here and I can't think of any.
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Well, he had to do the intro of "The Number of the Beast" live once when the intro tape failed to start. :D
 
Richard Burton.

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Quote from: Forostar on May 06, 2009, 04:34:13 pm Does someone know who did the voice in the middle part of the song? I suddenly wonder if it might come from one of those films. It's the late great fellow Welshy, Richard Burton. (Married Elizabeth Taylor, twice, if my memory serves me right)...
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Perun said:
Is that really the same recording, though? It sounds very different in the intonation.
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I'm not certain it is the same recording, maybe a different take, but it's close enough that there's no doubt it's the same guy. Maiden may also have doctored it so it fits the metre of the music
 
I have no doubt it's the same guy. But the diction is completely different in this recording. Listen to the way he pronounces "one after one". I don't think you could doctor it to that effect either today or in 1984. It must be a different recording.
 
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Someone in this subreddit suggests it was Martin Birch, but I've never heard his voice (or if I did, I don't remember) so I can't tell.

They also notice that no one but Bruce is credited for the vocals, but the point is that in The Number of the Beast they didn't credit Clayton.
 
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