I'm not 100% on this, since it's been a while, but I'm pretty sure the first maiden song I heard was Fear of the dark covered by Graveworm (which sounds nothing like the original). Loved it. The first maiden song I heard played by maiden must've been The Trooper live from Helsinki which I got on an mp3 CD from a friend. I was blown away by the chorus. I then heard Wicker Man and Ghost of Navigator and I've more or less been a maiden fan since then! [!--emo&:rock:--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/headbang.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'headbang.gif\' /][!--endemo--]
I can also thank maiden for leading me to being introduced to the amazing solo works of Bruce and Blaze (some of Di'Anno's stuff is quite good as well)