LONG HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
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Iron Maiden has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including 75 million albums through the EMI Records label. Iron Maiden won the Ivon Novello Awards as an international achievement in 2002, and also registered on "Hollywood Rock Walk" - a "Hall of Fame" made in honor of more than 170 musicians and artists, including Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, Judas Priest their influence on the history of the music industry-on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California on their American tour in 2005. As of October 2009, Iron Maiden has performed in 2000 live performances throughout their marvelous career.
The Early Years (1975-1978)
The name Iron Maiden obtained Harrisdari a movie The Man in the Iron Mask adaptation of novel "The Vicomte de Bragelonne", the work of Alexander Dumas, which he watched at the time. Iron Maiden is a set of torture tools from the 18th century. Steve Harris and Dave Murray (guitarist) recorded as the longest personnel of Iron Maiden in the band. Their very first vocalist, Paul Day, was fired for lack of energy and stamina on stage. Then his position was replaced by Dennis Wilcock, a huge fan of Kiss bands who use fire, make-up, and fake blood in every show.
Wilcock's friend Dave Murray was invited to join in to replace their frustrated guitarist Dave Sullivan and Terry Rance who caused Harris to disband his band for a while in 1976, although the band eventually re-formed after Dave Murray came on as sole guitarist. Iron Maiden recruited another guitarist in 1977, Bob Sawyer (who caused a rift between Murray and Wilcock) pushed Harris to fire Murray and Sawyer. A small musical gig at the Bridgehouse in November 1977, with Tony Moore's keyboard composition, Terry Wapram on guitar, and Barry Purkis on drums, followed by Harris's decision to fire his entire personnel. Dave Murray was later recalled and by recruiting Doug Sampson as their drummer.
Famous Start (1978-1981)
A vocalist audition that they held at the Red Lion pub in Leytonstone became an opportunity for them to find Paul Di'Anno. Paul's distinctive and heartbreaking voice made the band more characteristic of the band. Iron Maiden then played from stage to stage for three years without ever recording their music at all. In the new year of 1978, they recorded a demo, The Soundhouse Tapes. It contains only four songs, but sold five hundred copies in a few weeks. One track in the demo, "Prowler", took the number one spot on the Heavy Metal Soundhouse charts in Neal Kay's Sounds magazine. The album's first appearance was in the Metal for Muthas compilation (release 15 February 1980) with two early versions of the song "Sanctuary" and "Wrathchild".
From 1977 to 1978, Murray was the sole guitarist in the Iron Maiden band, until Paul Cairns joined in 1979. But shortly before the band entered the recording studio, Cairns left the band. Some guitarists came out and went in and out to replace his position, until the band finally found Dennis Stratton. Actually at that time Dave Murray wanted to attract his childhood friend, Adrian Smith, but Smith was busy with his own band, Urchin. Drummer Doug Sampson was also replaced by Clive Burr (who was brought in by Dennis Stratton). In December 1979, Iron Maiden arrived at an agreement with the major record company, EMI. Iron Maiden's 1980s first album, Iron Maiden, came in at number four on the UK Albums chart on the first week of the release, and with it Iron Maiden became one of the leads of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. In additional tracks, the album includes their much-loved early songs such as "Running Free", "Transylvania", "Phantom of the Opera" and "Sanctuary" which are not released in the UK, but US releases and re-releases .
Iron Maiden played in a very popular UK tour, Metal For Muthas Tour and Europe 80. They also became Kiss's opening band on the 1980 Kiss European tour, Unmasked Tour. Iron Maiden has also supported Judas Priest in recent times. Following Kiss's tour, Dennis Stratton was fired from the band for reasons of creativity and unsuitable personality. Stratton was replaced by Adrian Smith in October 1980. In 1981, Maiden released their second album, titled 'Killers'. This album contains many songs that were actually written for their first album, but not so because it was too much. With mature songs played throughout the tour, Maiden only added two more tracks for their second album: Prodigal Son and Murders in the Rue Morgue (which was taken from Edgar Allan Poe's short story).
Success (1981-1986)
In 1981, Paul Di'Anno began to exhibit self-destructive habits, beginning to use drugs, although Di'Anno himself did not admit them. His performance began to get worse just as the band began to achieve great success in America. In late 1981, Iron Maiden fired Di Ano and sought out a new vocalist. Bruce Dickinson, from the band Samson, was selected by Iron Maiden as the new vocalist in September 1981 and soon joined the band shortly thereafter. He went straight with Iron Maiden on small tours. To anticipate the next album, Iron Maiden plays songs such as "Children of the Damned", "Run to the Hills", "22 Acacia Avenue" and "The Prisoner" at their show, to introduce a new sound that they will work on fan.
Dickinson's debut with Iron Maiden in 1982 was The Number of the Beast, the album that brought Maiden the first time to the # 1 charts in the UK Albums and also became the Top Ten in many countries. For the second time Iron Maiden toured, visiting America, Canada, Japan, Australia, UK, and Germany. Their American tour became a controversy when Iron Maiden was claimed to be Satanic by the then conservative American political situation, due to their album title. The group of Christian activists destroyed Maiden's recording (along with Ozzy Osbourne) in protest against the band. Dickinson at that time still had a contractual engagement with Samson's management, and was not allowed to add his name to any other songwriter list. After all, he can still support Iron Maiden with his creativity on many songs.
In December 1982, drummer Clive Burr ended his working relationship with Iron Maiden due to personal problems as well as problems with the tour schedule. He was replaced by Nicko McBrain, formerly of the French band, Trust. Soon after, in 1983, Iron Maiden released the album 'Piece of Mind', which reached # 3 on the UK charts, and was first on the North American charts, ranking 70th on the Billboard 200. Piece of Mind success with the single "Flight of Icarus" and "The Trooper".Shortly after the success of Piece of Mind, Iron Maiden released Powerslave on September 9, 1984. The album featured songs favored by fans like "2 Minutes to Midnight", "Aces High", and a 13-minute song based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem with the same title, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner".
Experiments (1986-1989)
Turmoil (1989-1994)
Blaze Era (1994-1999)
Reunion (1999-2005)
Recent Years (late 2007-present)
On their return from the holidays, Iron Maiden adopted a different style on their 1986 studio album which they titled Somewhere in Time. This is not a concept album, though it is themed around time-travel and themes related to it's history, time travel, and long journeys. The album, for the first time in Iron Maiden's history, uses synthesizers on bass and guitar to add texture and layers to their sound. The experimental results at Somewhere in Time also appear on the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album which was released in 1988 later. Adding experiments, Maiden makes it into an album-a concept that tells the story of a mystical child, who has clairvoyant powers (paranormal). For the first time, Iron Maiden used a keyboard in the recording, as opposed to guitar synthesizers on previous albums. Music critics claim the experiment produced a much more desirable release. The album became their second album which was ranked 1st on the UK charts. In Donington Park Festival, August 20, 1988, visitors reached 107,000 people; the largest number of festival visitors throughout the history of the festival. Other bands that also performed at the festival include Kiss, David Lee Roth, Megadeth, Guns N 'Roses, and Helloween. In 1990, to cover their tenth year in releasing singles, they released The First The Years, a series of 10 CDs and a 12 "vinyy double. Between February 24 and April 28, 1990, in each of the released series, there were two Iron Maiden singles, including B-sides.
Turmoil (1989-1994)
In 1989, after a tour with Iron Maiden, their guitarist Adrian Smith released a solo album with his band ASAP, entitled Silver and Gold. In this break, their vocalist Bruce Dickinson began working on a solo album with Janick Gers, guitarist Gillan (band Ian Gillan, Deep Purple), releasing Tattooed Millionaire album in 1990. Soon after, Iron Maiden regrouped to work on a new album, but it turned out Adrian Smith chose to leave the band due to lack of enthusiasm. Janick Gers was eventually chosen to replace Smith and become a new member of Maiden the first time again after 7 years of Iron Maiden there was never a change of personnel. No Prayer for the Dying album, released in October 1990. In 1993, Bruce Dickinson left Iron Maiden to pursue his solo career further. However, Dickinson agreed to always be remembered with his band by going on a farewell tour and two live albums (later released in a package package).
Blaze Era (1994-1999)
In 1994, Iron Maiden auditioned hundreds of vocalists, from the famous to the unknown, until finally chose Blaze Bayley, former vocalist of the band Wolfsbane.Bayley has a different vocal character with Bruce Dickinson, who ultimately gets more diversified acceptance. After two years of vacuum (and three years of vacuum without having a new recording) Iron Maiden back in 1995. Releasing The X Factor, Iron Maiden earned their lowest achievement on UK charts since 1981, reaching the order of 8. Their songwriters, Steve Harris, was having personal problems with his marriage at the time, and fans and critics felt the tone on the album as a relief from it. Inside the album is a 11-minute song, "Sign of the Cross", the longest Iron Maiden song since the previous "Rime of the Ancient Mariner". Iron Maiden returned to the studio to work on Virtual XI, which was released in 1998. The album recorded as the album with the lowest sales, failing to reach the number of sales of one million copies for the first time in Iron Maiden's history.
Reunion (1999-2005)
In February 1999, Bayley left Iron Maiden with the permission of both parties (Bayley and Iron Maiden) both allow it. At the same time, Iron Maiden surprised their fans when announcing that Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith returned to the band, with Janick Gers remaining in it. Iron Maiden has three guitarists and a successful reunion, The Ed Hunter Tour. The tour is also supported by the release of Ed Hunter, a computer game, taken from the name Iron Maiden mascot, Eddie. The release of Iron Maiden's first studio album after Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith returned, is a 2000 album, Brave New World. Continuing the thematic album with "The Wicker Man". The world tour that they did after the release of the album, contains 100 dates and culminated on January 19, 2001 at the Rock in Rio Brazil festival, where Iron Maiden performed in front of about 250,000 people. The performance was recorded and released on CD and DVD in March 2000 under the title Rock in Rio. In 2005, Iron Maiden announced a tour to commemorate the band's 25th anniversary since the release of its first album, Iron Maiden, and the 30-year-old band stood. The tour is also in order to boost their DVD sales figures entitled The Early Days and throughout the tour they only played material from their first four albums. As part of their early days celebration, The Number of The Beast was re-released and ranked 3rd on the UK Chart charts. The Early Days Tour includes concerts in many stadiums and festivals, as well as their historic performances at the Ullevi Stadium in Sweden, where Maiden performs in front of 60,000 fans. The concert was also broadcast on satellite television across Europe to 60 million viewers.
A Matter of Life and Death (2005-early 2007)
In spring 2006, Iron Maiden released A Matter of Life and Death. Which of these albums is not an album-concept, with war and religion is a repeating theme in the lyrics, as vivid as the one on the cover of the album. In November 2006, Iron Maiden and their manager Rod Smallwood announced that they will end their working relationship with Sanctuary Music that has been in existence for 27 years, and started a new company relationship called Phantom Music Management. No significant changes occurred.
The second part of the "A Matter of Life and Death" tour, dubbed "A Matter of the Beast" to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Number of the Beast album, includes their performances at some of the world's great festivals. Iron Maiden announced plans to play five songs from A Matter of Life and Death and five from The Number of the Beast as part of the theme of the tour. But in reality they only played four songs from The Number of the Beast. They played in the Middle East for the first time the Dubai Desert Rock Festival event in 2007, in front of 20,000 fans.They made their first appearance in India, Bangalore, in front of 45,000 people at Bangalore Palace Grounds. The first time a big heavy metal band performed there it became a milestone for India.
Recent Years (late 2007-present)
September 5, 2007, Iron Maiden announced "Somewhere Back in Time World Tour.Their tour setlist consisted of their success in the '80s, emphasizing the Powerslave era for design and stage sets. The tour started from Mumbai, India, in February 2008; where Iron Maiden played in front of nearly 30,000 people. The first part of the tour consisted of 24 concerts in 21 cities, traveling more than 50,000 miles on a private plane "Ed Force One". They played for the first time in Costa Rica and Colombia, and also the first time in Australia since they last played there in 1992. 12 May, Iron Maiden released a new compilation album entitled Somewhere Back in Time. It included songs from the first album until their debut in 1988, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, also including several live versions of Live After Death. With a single concert at Twickenham Stadium, UK, this tour became the first in the history of the Stadium to be used for band performances. The last part of the tour, runs from February and March 2009, where Iron Maiden for the first time perform in Peru and Ecuador, and the first time they come back to New Zealand after 16 years. Iron Maiden also appeared for the third time within 2 years in India-at the Rock in India 2009 Festival, with an audience of 20,000 people. The tour ended in Florida on April 2nd. January 20, 2009, Iron Maiden announced that they will be releasing a documentary film in cinemas on 21 Apri, titled Iron Maiden: Flight 666. A film recorded on the first part of their Somewhere Back in Time tour, from February to March 2008. Flight 666 was produced by Banger Productions and released by Unversal Music Group in America, and by EMI records for other countries.
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