![]() So, on the eve of Maiden’s 15th studio album release The Final Frontier, join us as we relive the band’s impressively graphic back catalogue. From lobotomised street-prowling urchin to Satan-battling, time-travelling cyborg - Ed’s 30-year coming of age has been a painful yet compelling journey. ![]() Steve was yelling at Rod as he separated us, 'He's got to fucking go!'"īut Dickinson didn't split instead, he and Harris worked out a compromise, concluding that, "in the case of who stands in front of whom, good manners trumps boundless enthusiasm.As you’ll see from the following celebration of Iron Maiden’s gloriously gruesome, benchmark-setting artwork, Eddie has evolved along with the band and their musical direction. We were both busy rolling up our sleeves to go outside and sort each other out. "We went on stage, quite a small stage, and Steve and I spent a bad-tempered evening like two rutting stags locking antlers," Dickinson wrote. It all came to a head after Iron Maiden's show in Newcastle, England. in my peripheral vision, I could see Steve careening towards me, so I positioned it as a sort of anti-bass-player tank trap." "I countered by putting ludicrously long legs on my mic stand. "When I was singing, half a bass guitar was being stuck up my nose, because clearly there was some demarcation zone I had infringed," he wrote. It was Dickinson's first extended trek with the band, and he recounted in his autobiography that he and Harris repeatedly clashed over onstage etiquette - highly charged interactions that very nearly resulted in punches being thrown. Money worries and drug distractions weren't the only friction points during the world tour in support of The Number of the Beast. Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris nearly came to blows during Maiden's 1982 world tour Video of Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name (live)ġ0. At the time, Maiden didn't have the budget, so they enlisted English actor Barry Clayton "who used to read the ghost story on the radio station in London," because "he sounds kinda like Vincent Price … and was like 300 bucks." ![]() Price doesn't get out of bed for less than $10,000," the singer recounted with a laugh. In 2017, Dickinson confirmed to Eddie Truck on Sirius XM that the band initially approached iconic horror actor Vincent Price to deliver the chilling lines. "The Number of the Beast" starts with an evocative spoken-word section cribbed from the Bible's Revelation 12:12 and 13:18: "Woe to you, oh earth and sea/For the Devil sends the beast with wrath/Because he knows the time is short/Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast/For it is a human number/ Its number is six hundred and sixty-six." Horror film legend Vincent Price turned down a guest appearance on "The Number of the Beast" Video of Vincent Price Could Have Been on an Iron Maiden Album | SiriusXM VolumeĢ. Below, we present 10 things you may not know about Iron Maiden's breakout record. It's sold nearly 20 million copies worldwide, and critics and fans consistently rank it among the best metal albums of all time. Since its release, The Number of the Beast's legacy has grown to mythic proportions. The hate only helped get the message out to the true metal believers (plus a ton of potential converts) that this album was not to be missed. The album's powerhouse title track also became an unexpected firebrand that incited widespread protests from religious and conservative groups because of its seemingly satanic lyrics and cover illustrator Derek Riggs' Eddie-as-devilish-puppet master artwork. Albums Chart and cracking the Top 40 charts in the U.S. The Number of the Beast was a massive global hit for Maiden, reaching Number 1 on the U.K. But its impact was felt far beyond that localized scene. ![]() Video of Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast (Official Video)įrom its opening call-to-arms "Invaders" and rousing "Prisoners" to side-two bangers "The Number of the Beast" and "Run to the Hills" to the epic seven-minute closer "Hallowed Be Thy Name," the album is a master class in NWOBHM. ![]()
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