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8. ENTER SMALLWOOD

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After a few shows at the Music Machine and countless gigs elsewhere and everywhere, Steve was introduced to a guy called Rod Smallwood. Rod, from what I remember, had a few contacts...

7. THE MUSIC MACHINE

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My first memories of the Music Machine are getting there before anyone else, along with the rest of the crew, and surveying the place. It was enormous compared to some of the...

LOOPYWORLD: AND THEN.

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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

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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...

5A. RECORDING DEMOS AT MINUS 20 DEGREES REVISITED

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...
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