Iron Maiden

LOOPYWORLD: AND THEN.

I met up with another ex-Killer Krew member, Chris Lang, at Manor Park station for Clive Burr's funeral. I hadn't seen Chris for quite a few years, but we found each other...

6. THE FUN BEGINS

Just over a month ago I posted a little blog about Iron Maiden recording the Spaceward Demo, which as we all now know, became 'The Soundhouse Tapes'. And of course, if it...

ADRIAN SMITH TO RELEASE AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN 2020

Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith autobiography 'Monsters Of River And Rock: My Life As Iron Maiden's Compulsive Angler' is set to release on May 14, 2020.

5A. RECORDING DEMOS AT MINUS 20 DEGREES REVISITED

Just over a month ago I posted a little blog about Iron Maiden recording the Spaceward Demo, which as we all now know, became 'The Soundhouse Tapes'. And of course, if it...

THE LOVE AFFAIR CONTINUES.

When I quit Stage Miracles in 1995, I somehow forgot all about Iron Maiden. I knew there had been various changes, as Bruce left to be replaced by Blaze and Adrian by...

10. RECORDING THE FIRST ALBUM

With Steve and Rod constantly pushing everyone to get things moving at breakneck speed, gigs were getting organised before the crew were ready. Then we got told, and I mean GOT told,...

5. RECORDING DEMOS AT MINUS 20 DEGREES

After several months of touring all over the country as a four piece Steve decided that a new addition was required. He wanted a second guitarist to make the harmonies work so...

4. THE EARTH IS GETTING GREENER

Back in those days Steve Harris used to store all the band's gear in his Nan's front room in a house in Leytonstone, in the good old East End of London. But...

3. WHEN FIVE BECAME EIGHT

Rehearsals went on week after week, backwards and forwards to Bromley By Bow and eventually déjà vu kicked in. I was thinking one day about how Paul and I had done pretty...

2. THE BIRTH OF THE BEAST

Paul got the job, which is history now, but let me expand that a little.So off he went to rehearsals, on his own for a while, but it soon became obvious that...

1. THE FINE ART OF BEING IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME

Who am I? Ok, where do I start? At the beginning I guess, so let me introduce myself.Born Steve Newhouse on May 1st 1957, in the London Borough of Hackney, I had the...

LORD OF LIGHT: IN CONVERSATION WITH LEGENDARY IRON MAIDEN PYROMANIAC DAVE LIGHTS

Legendary Iron Maiden crew member (1975-1986), lighting designer, pyromaniac and the original face of 'Eddie', Dave 'Lights' Beasley spoke to Andy Rawll for MetalTalk.Rocks about his time with the band at the...

FOUR-FIFTHS OF ORIGINAL IRON MAIDEN LINE-UP REUNITE FOR FIRST TIME IN OVER FOUR DECADES

Four out of five members of the original Iron Maiden line-up were reunited for the first time in forty-two years this weekend just gone.Maiden’s very first singer, Paul Mario Day, founder and...

IRON MAIDEN COPYRIGHT CASE COULD COLLAPSE AFTER McKAY MELTDOWN

Barry McKay, the man suing Iron Maiden over the copyrights for six songs written before 1982, has taken to social media in an astonishing, lengthy rant that has surely jeopardised any chance...

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