Iron Maiden
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Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, October 1983
A DREAM. I'm lounging on the balcony of a Beverly Hills hotel staring out over the pool when there's a knock on the door. In ...
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Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson (1988)
Interview by Simon Witter, Rock's Backpages audio, 6 March 1988
The ever-articulate Maiden frontman talks about his early influences, his cynicism towards the rock'n'roll lifestyle, songwriting, the cathartic qualities of heavy metal and...fencing!
File format: mp3; file size: 51.4mb, interview length: 56' 10" sound quality: ***
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, 1992
From stately homes in Essex to luxury pads in Florida, various members of the Maiden talk about their lives off the road: playing football; drinking real ale, and whether or not they miss their (mostly) London roots.
File format: mp3; file size: 49.2mb, interview length: 51' 14" sound quality: ***
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If You Want Blood (and Flashbombs and Dry Ice and Confetti) You've Got It
Report by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 19 May 1979
THE NEW WAVE OF BRITISH HEAVY METAL: FIRST IN AN OCCASIONAL SERIES BY DEAF BARTON ...
Profile and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 23 February 1980
HEAVY METAL has been around for as long as I can remember. It grew from the blues and just never died despite years of cold ...
Iron Maiden: Iron Maiden (EMI EMC 3330)****½
Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 5 April 1980
ULP — I can hear them now, sickening snaps echoing throughout the land as HM fans suddenly stop in mid headshake. Ugh, yeah — I ...
Report by Mary Harron, The Guardian, 19 July 1980
Mary Harron takes a trip to Sheffield and discovers a surprising rock revival. ...
Iron Maiden: Run For The Pils!
Report and Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, 20 February 1982
The flanning of Iron Maiden: report by PHILIP BELL ...
Mark Of The Beast: Iron Maiden/The Rods: Queensway Hall, Dunstable
Live Review by Phil Bell, Sounds, 6 March 1982
BEEN A LONG TIME since the Queensway Hall's played host to such an uncouth, freakin' gang of insuffisticates as the Rods. ...
Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast (EMI)****1/2
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 27 March 1982
DREAMS DON'T come true too often so when they do it's worth making a song and dance about them. The Steve Harris story is a ...
Iron Maiden: The Metal Masquerade
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 8 May 1982
THE UNSMILING but unthreatening Iron Maiden are being photographed in the bright white tiled shower room of a compact sports stadium in Offenbach, near Frankfurt ...
Iron Maiden: Unleashed With The Beast
Report by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 28 August 1982
CORPUS CHRISTI lies humid and unhurried under a scorching Texas sun. The shining orb's efforts to reduce the populus to mobile blobs of molten jelly ...
Iron Maiden: What's It All About Eddie?
Interview by Karen Schlosberg, Creem, July 1985
HEAVY METAL. Now – wait. Before you all go screaming off into the night, crossing yourselves and mouthing prayers to the soul of Michael Jackson, ...
Iron Maiden: When It's Time To Rock...
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 2 October 1986
Somewhere in Yugoslavia, IRON MAIDEN are gearing themselves up for a mammoth assault on the planet's concert stages. SYLVIE SIMMONS braves bolshy Eastern European bureaucrats ...
Iron Maiden: Apollo Theatre, Oxford
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 18 October 1986
ON THE opening night of the British leg of their world tour to promote an album called Somewhere In Time, Iron Maiden play like pirates, ...
Welcome To The Machine: Iron Maiden
Interview by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 12 March 1988
MUCH AS WE may laugh at the blustering antics of its ambassadors, HM is no joke. As a kind of musical Rollerball, exorcising taboos and ...
Retrospective and Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 1 September 1990
For those off us old enough to remember, the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal was the start off the greatest period ever for Metal ...
Iron Maiden: No Prayer For The Dying
Review by Neil Perry, Select, November 1990
CONSIDERING THAT Iron Maiden are Britain's most successful homegrown HM act — Def Leppard had to ship out to the States and then return like ...
Iron Maiden: Pas de moshing, s’il vous plait!
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, January 1991
"MES AMIS, il faut que nous arretons un moment," says the longhaired singer in leather jacket, skintight sports trews and a French accent truly Churchillian ...
Overview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 19 January 1991
Bring your good taste to be slaughtered! To mark Iron Maiden's ground-breaking success (any bleedin' excuse — Ed), STUART MACONIE investigates the subtle and many-faceted ...
Iron Maiden: Dance Of Death (EMI)
Review by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, October 2003
IN ESSENCE, Iron Maiden are the rock Marmite. Ambivalence is simply not an option when bearing witness to their characteristic onslaught of dense, prog-laced riffage. ...
Iron Maiden: Don't Fear The Reaper
Interview by Geoff Barton, Classic Rock, January 2004
THERE ARE dead bodies lying on trestle tables in the midst of the tangled scaffolding and controlled chaos that represents Iron Maiden's rear of stage ...
Iron Maiden: Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle/Tenacious D: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 24 December 2006
The nursery school of rock ...
NWOBHM: Never Mind The Bollocks
Retrospective by Paul Elliott, MOJO, February 2007
Threatened by punk, Led Zep, Sabbath and Purple came under fire in 1977. A year later Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon led a New ...
Iron Maiden: Britain's biggest heavy metal export
Interview by Sophie Heawood, The Times, 11 April 2009
Long a byword for uncool, Iron Maiden are now our biggest musical earners abroad after the Police and ahead of Coldplay. With a Brit in ...
Iron Maiden: The Final Frontier
Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 13 August 2010
Apocalyptic portent, three-pronged guitar attack and hefty hooks... This is EMI's most loyal act at their best. ...
Maiden Voyage: Inside Iron Maiden's Book Of Souls Tour
Report and Interview by Johnny Black, Audience, April 2016
SEEN FROM the stage, an Iron Maiden concert is an ocean of Maiden t-shirts, with thousands of devotees proudly displaying various incarnations of the band's ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 21 May 2017
Steaming cauldrons and drum riser acrobatics … Bruce Dickinson and co's languid brand of British heavy metal embraces all and shows no signs of rust ...
Interview by Henry Yates, Classic Rock, 11 December 2018
Drummer Nicko McBrain on live extravaganzas, critical slatings and smacking Classic Rock in the mouth… ...
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, Financial Times, 15 February 2022
AS INELEGANT acronyms go, NWOBHM was at least onomatopoeic: an approximation of metal's thudding, bludgeoning bass registers. Certainly the "New Wave Of British Heavy Metal", ...
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