Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six compilations.

Pioneers of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Iron Maiden achieved success during the early 1980s. After several line-up changes, the band went on to release a series of platinum and gold albums. These include the U.S. platinum-selling ''The Number of the Beast'' in 1982, ''Piece of Mind'' in 1983, ''Powerslave'' in 1984, the live release ''Live After Death'' in 1985, ''Somewhere in Time'' in 1986, and ''Seventh Son of a Seventh Son'' in 1988. The band are currently undergoing a resurgence in popularity, with their 2006 album ''A Matter of Life and Death'' peaking at number nine on the ''Billboard'' 200 and at number four in the UK. Their latest studio offering, ''The Final Frontier'', was released worldwide on 16 and 17 August 2010, peaking at number one in 40 different countries and receiving universal acclaim from reviewers. The album's second track, "El Dorado", won in the Best Metal Performance category at the 53rd Grammy Awards.

Considered one of the most successful heavy metal bands in history, Iron Maiden have reportedly sold over 85 million records worldwide with little radio or television support. The band won the Ivor Novello Award for international achievement in 2002, and were also inducted into the Hollywood RockWalk in Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, California during their United States tour in 2005. As of October 2009, the band has played over 2000 live shows during their career.

For the past 30 years, the band has been supported by their famous mascot, "Eddie", who has appeared on almost all of their album and single covers, as well as in their live shows.

History

Early years (1975–1978)

Iron Maiden recruited yet another guitarist in 1977, Bob Sawyer. Tension ensued again, causing a rift between Murray and Wilcock that prompted Harris to fire both Murray and Sawyer. A poor gig at the Bridgehouse in November 1977, with a makeshift line-up including Tony Moore on keyboards, Terry Wapram on guitar, and drummer Barry Purkis resulted in Harris firing the entire band. Dave Murray was reinstated and Doug Sampson was hired as drummer. Wilcock in turn formed the band V1 with former Iron Maiden guitarist Terry Wapram.

Rise to fame (1978–1981)

Other than the periods of late 1976-mid 1977 and winter of 1978–79, when Murray was the sole guitarist in the band, Iron Maiden's line-up would always employ multiple guitarists. Dave Murray's childhood friend Adrian Smith was considered to fill the gig at one time, but Smith was busy with his own band, Urchin.

On New Year's Eve 1978, the band recorded an EP, ''The Soundhouse Tapes''. Featuring only four songs, the band sold all five thousand copies within weeks. One track found on the EP, "Prowler", went to number one on Neal Kay's Heavy Metal Soundhouse charts in ''Sounds'' magazine.

In December 1979, the band landed a major record deal with EMI. By January 1980, Doug Sampson had quit due to health issues; he was replaced by an ex-Samson drummer Clive Burr. Iron Maiden's first appearance on an album was on the compilation ''Metal for Muthas'' (released on 15 February 1980) with two early versions of "Sanctuary" and "Wrathchild". On the ensuing tour, the band solidified its line-up with second guitarist Dennis Stratton.

Iron Maiden's eponymous 1980 release, ''Iron Maiden'', made number 4 in the UK Albums Chart in its first week of release, and the group became one of the leading proponents of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. In addition to the title track, the album includes other early favourites such as "Running Free", "Transylvania", "Phantom of the Opera", and "Sanctuary" – which was not on the original UK release but made the U.S. release and subsequent re-releases. The band played a headline tour of the UK then went on to open for Kiss on their 1980 Unmasked Tour's European leg. Iron Maiden also supported Judas Priest on select dates. After the Kiss tour, Dennis Stratton was dismissed from the band as a result of creative and personal differences, and was replaced by Adrian Smith in October 1980.

In 1981, Iron Maiden released their second album, entitled ''Killers''. This new studio release contained many tracks that had been written prior to the release of their debut album, but were considered surplus. With songs already created well in advance, only two new tracks were written for the album: "Prodigal Son" and "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (the latter of which's title was taken from the short story by Edgar Allan Poe).

Success (1981–1986)

Bruce Dickinson, previously of Samson, auditioned for Iron Maiden in September 1981 and joined the band soon afterward. He then went out on the road with the band on a small headlining tour. In anticipation of the band's forthcoming album, the band played "Children of the Damned", "Run to the Hills", "22 Acacia Avenue" and "The Prisoner" at select venues, introducing fans to the sound that the band was progressing towards.

Dickinson's recorded debut with Iron Maiden was 1982's ''The Number of the Beast'', an album that claimed the band their first ever UK Albums Chart No. 1 record and additionally became a Top Ten hit in many other countries. For the second time the band went on a world tour, visiting the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, UK and Germany. The new line up, with Bruce Dickinson on vocals, was effectively introduced to the British public at large – by headlining the Reading Rock festival, on Saturday night over the August Bank Holiday 1982. A new and hugely successful chapter in Iron Maiden's future was cemented; the album went on to sell over 14 million copies worldwide.

The Number of the Beast tour's U.S. leg proved controversial when an American conservative political lobbying group claimed Iron Maiden was Satanic because of the new album's title track, to the point where a group of Christian activists destroyed Iron Maiden records (along with those of Ozzy Osbourne) as a protest against the band. In recent years, Dickinson has stated that the band treated this as "sillyness," and that the demonstrations in fact gave them "loads of publicity." Dickinson at the time was still having legal difficulties with Samson's management, and was not permitted to add his name to any of the songwriting credits. However, he was still able to lend "creative influence" to many of the songs. In a ''Guitar Legends'' interview he claims he contributed to the overall themes of "Children of the Damned", "The Prisoner" and "Run to the Hills".

In December 1982, drummer Clive Burr ended his association with the band due to personal and tour schedule problems. He was replaced by Nicko McBrain, previously of French band Trust. Soon afterwards, the band journeyed for the first time to The Bahamas to record the first of three consecutive albums at Compass Point Studios, and during 1983 released ''Piece of Mind'', which reached the No. 3 spot in the UK, and was the band's debut at the North American charts, with a No. 70 at the Billboard 200. ''Piece of Mind'' includes the successful singles "Flight of Icarus" and "The Trooper".

Soon after the success of ''Piece of Mind'', the band released ''Powerslave'' on 9 September 1984. The album featured fan favourites "2 Minutes to Midnight", "Aces High", and "Rime of The Ancient Mariner", the latter based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem of the same name and running over 13 minutes long.

The tour following the album, dubbed the World Slavery Tour, was the band's largest to date and consisted of 193 shows over 13 months. This was one of the largest tours in music history – playing to 3,500,000 people over the course of 13 months. Many shows were played back-to-back in the same city, such as in Long Beach, California (4 consecutive sold out shows to summary audience of 54,000 fans), where most of the recordings were made for their subsequent live release ''Live After Death'' which has since become one of the best selling metal live albums and is often regarded by critics and fans as the one of the best hard rock/heavy metal live albums ever. Iron Maiden also co-headlined (with Queen) the Rock In Rio festival, where they performed to an estimated crowd of 300,000 festivalgoers. This tour was physically gruelling for the band and they took a 6-month vacation when it ended. This was the first vacation in the band's history, including even cancelling a proposed supporting tour for the new live album.

Experimentation (1986–1989)

In 1990, to mark Iron Maiden's ten year recording anniversary, they released ''The First Ten Years'', a series of ten CDs and double 12" vinyls. Between 24 February and 28 April 1990, the individual parts were released one-by-one, each containing two of Iron Maiden's singles, including the original B-sides.

Upheaval (1989–1994)

Soon afterward, Iron Maiden regrouped to work on a new album. Adrian Smith left the band due to differences with Steve Harris regarding the direction the band should be taking. Janick Gers, having worked on Bruce Dickinson's solo project, was chosen to replace Smith and became the first new team member in seven years. The album, ''No Prayer for the Dying'', was released during October 1990.

The band obtained their first (and to date, only) UK Singles Chart number one successful single with "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter", originally recorded by Dickinson for the soundtrack to ''A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child''. It was released on 24 December 1990, and was one of the first records to be released on several different formats with different B-sides. The single holds the record for being the fastest release to reach number one and then lose any chart rating again over the following couple of weeks.

Dickinson performed a solo tour in 1991 before returning to studio work with Iron Maiden for the album ''Fear of the Dark''. Released in 1992, the album was noticeably longer (due to this being Iron Maiden's first album recorded for CD rather than LP) and had several songs which became fan favourites, such as the title track and "Afraid to Shoot Strangers". The disc also featured "Wasting Love", one of the band's softer songs, and the No. 2 single "Be Quick or Be Dead". The album featured the first songwriting by Gers, and no collaboration at all between Harris and Dickinson on songs. The extensive worldwide tour that followed included their first ever Latin American leg (after a single concert during the World Slavery Tour), and being the headline act of "Monsters of Rock Festival" in seven European countries. Iron Maiden's second performance at Donington Park, gathering near to 80,000 festivalgoers, originated the album and video release ''Live at Donington''.

In 1993, Bruce Dickinson left the band to further pursue his solo career but agreed to remain for a farewell tour and two live albums (later re-released in one package). The first, ''A Real Live One'', featured songs from 1986 to 1992, and was released in March 1993. The second, ''A Real Dead One'', featured songs from 1980 to 1984, and was released after Dickinson had left the band. He played his farewell show with Iron Maiden on 28 August 1993. The show was filmed, broadcast by the BBC, and released on video under the name ''Raising Hell''.

Blaze Bayley era, ''The X Factor'' and ''Virtual XI'' (1994–1999)

The band returned to the studio for ''Virtual XI'', released in 1998. Chart scores of the album were the band's lowest to date, failing to score one million worldwide sales for the first time in Iron Maiden's history. At the same time, Steve Harris assisted in remastering the entire discography of Iron Maiden up to ''Live at Donington'' (which was given a mainstream release for the first time) and released the set.

''Ed Hunter'', ''Brave New World'', ''Dance of Death'' (1999–2005)

In February 1999, Bayley left the band by mutual consent. At the same time, the band surprised their fans when they announced that both Bruce Dickinson and guitarist Adrian Smith were rejoining the band, and that Janick Gers would remain. Iron Maiden now had three guitarists and a hugely successful reunion tour, The Ed Hunter Tour. This tour also supported the band's newly released greatest hits ''Ed Hunter'', which also contained a computer game of the same name starring the band's mascot.

Iron Maiden's first studio release after the reunion with Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith came in the form of 2000's ''Brave New World''. Thematic influences continued with "The Wicker Man" – based on the 1973 British cult film of the same name – and "Brave New World" – title taken from the Aldous Huxley novel of the same name. The album furthered the more progressive and melodic sound present in some earlier recordings, with elaborate song structures and keyboard orchestration. The world tour that followed consisted of well over 100 dates and culminated on 19 January 2001 in a show at the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil, where Iron Maiden played to an audience of around 550,000. This performance was recorded and released on CD and DVD in March 2002 under the name ''Rock in Rio''.

Following their Give Me Ed... 'Til I'm Dead Tour in summer 2003, Iron Maiden released ''Dance of Death''. The release of this, their thirteenth studio album, was met by critical and commercial success worldwide. Some critics also felt that this release matched up to their earlier efforts such as ''Piece of Mind'' and ''The Number of the Beast'', including their darker imagery rather than the more upbeat reunion album. As usual, historical and literary influences continued, "Montsegur" in particular being about the Cathar stronghold conquered in 1244 and "Paschendale" relating to a significant battle during World War I. The supporting tour for this album, named Dance of Death World Tour was another landmark for the band, as they played to over 750,000 fans during 50 dates over a period of 4 months in 2003–04. This included sold out dates in South America, Europe, North America and Japan.

Their performance at Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany, as part of the supporting tour, was recorded and released in August 2005 as a live album and DVD, entitled ''Death on the Road''.

In 2005, the band announced the Eddie Rips Up the World Tour which, tying in with their 2004 DVD entitled ''The Early Days'', only featured material from their first four albums. As part of this celebration of their earlier years, the "Number of the Beast" single was re-released and went straight to number 3 in the UK Chart. The tour included many headlining stadium and festival dates, including a performance at Ullevi Stadium in Sweden to almost 60,000 fans. This concert was also broadcast live on satellite television all over Europe to approximately 60 million viewers.

Iron Maiden's last Ozzfest performance on 20 August 2005 at the Hyundai Pavilion, was at Glen Helen in San Bernardino, CA to almost 50,000 people.

The band completed this tour by headlining the Reading and Leeds weekend festivals on the 26-28 August – two shows to an estimated 130,000 people combined, and in Ireland on 31 August to almost 40,000 fans at RDS Stadium. For the second time, the band played a charity show for former drummer Clive Burr's ''Clive Burr MS Trust Fund'' charity.

''A Matter of Life and Death'' (2005–early 2007)

Iron Maiden recorded a live session at Abbey Road Studios for ''Live from Abbey Road'' in December 2006. Their performance was screened in an episode alongside sessions with Natasha Bedingfield and Gipsy Kings in March 2007 on Channel 4 (UK) and June 2007 on the Sundance Channel (USA).

In November 2006, Iron Maiden and manager Rod Smallwood announced that they were to end their 27-year-old relationship with Sanctuary Music and were to start a new company named ''Phantom Music Management''. No other significant changes were made.

The second part of the "A Matter of Life and Death" tour was dubbed "A Matter of the Beast" to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ''The Number of the Beast'' album, and included appearances at several major festivals worldwide. The band announced plans to play five songs from ''A Matter of Life and Death'' and five from ''The Number of the Beast'' as part of their set but in fact played only four songs from ''The Number of the Beast''. They played in the Middle East for the first time at the annual Dubai Desert Rock Festival in 2007, playing to 20,000 fans. They made their first appearance in India with a concert in Bangalore aptly called Eddfest, playing to over 45,000 people at the Bangalore Palace Grounds. This event marked the first time any major heavy metal band toured the Indian sub-continent. The band went on to play a string of European dates, including open air festival performances and mostly stadium-sized gigs. In England, they headlined the Download Festival at Donington Park for the fourth time in their career. The show attracted a record breaking number of attendees, estimated as near to 80,000 die-hard festival-goers despite higher ticket and camp-place prices than in recent years. On 24 June they ended the tour with a performance at London's Brixton Academy in aid of The Clive Burr MS Trust fund.

Somewhere Back in Time World Tour & ''Flight 666'' (2007–2009)

On 20 January 2009, the band announced that they were to release a full-length documentary film in select cinemas on 21 April 2009. Titled ''Iron Maiden: Flight 666'', the movie was filmed during the first part of the "Somewhere Back In Time" tour between February and March 2008. ''Flight 666'' is co-produced by Banger Productions and was released by Universal Music Group in the U.S. and EMI Records in the rest of the world.

During their live presentation in São Paulo, on 15 March 2009, Bruce announced on stage that the show was the biggest of their career. In fact, the crowd of 100,000 people was Iron Maiden's all-time biggest attendance for a solo show, without other bands. The attendance was bigger than Chile's show (almost 60,000 fans), according to the organisers. At the 2009 BRIT Awards the band won the award for best live act.

''The Final Frontier'' (2010–2011)

The album's supporting tour would see the band play 98 shows across the globe, including the band's first visits to Indonesia and Transylvania, and concluded in London on 6 August 2011.

At the 53rd Grammy Awards on 13 February 2011, "El Dorado" won the award for Best Metal Performance. It is the band's first win following two previous Grammy nominations ("Fear of the Dark" in 1994 and "The Wicker Man" in 2001).

It was announced on 15 March that EMI will release a new compilation album to accompany 2009's ''Somewhere Back in Time'', to be entitled ''From Fear to Eternity'' on 23 May. The album has since been pushed back to 6 June. The double disc album covers the period 1990–2010 (the band's most recent eight albums), and, as on ''Somewhere Back in Time'', live versions with Bruce Dickinson were included in place of original recordings which featured other vocalists, in this case Blaze Bayley.

In a press release regarding the release of ''From Fear to Eternity'', band manager Rod Smallwood revealed that the band will release a new concert video to DVD in 2011, filmed during The Final Frontier World Tour.

Influence on other artists

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said : "Iron Maiden have been the blueprint for everything that we have ever wanted to do. I have always had an incredible amount of respect and admiration for them."

Pop artist, Lady Gaga calls Iron Maiden her favourite band, saying that "their fans live, breathe and die for Maiden, and that is my dream. Maiden changed my life."

Kerry King of Slayer says: "The reason why Slayer's here is because of Iron Maiden. We played 'Phantom of the Opera' in a small club; luckily we were spotted by the owner of Metal Blade... and well, here we are now!"

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor is also a huge fan, saying that "Steve Harris does more with four fingers than I've ever seen anybody do. And Bruce Dickinson? Dude! To me, he was the quintessential old-school heavy metal singer. He could hit notes that were just sick, and he was a great showman. Everything made me a fan. And there wasn't a dude that I hung out with that wasn't trying to draw Eddie on their schoolbooks."

WWE wrestler Chris Jericho claims that Iron Maiden are his favourite band and that they had a huge influence on his band Fozzy, saying that "even till this very day me, and Fozzy will always respect Iron Maiden for the things they did after all, they're the reason why Fozzy exists!"

M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold calls Iron Maiden the best live band of all time saying: "Maiden are by far the best live band in the world and their music is timeless."

Trivium singer Matt Heafy feels "Iron Maiden helped create what we know as heavy metal. Their influence can be heard on classic and contemporary bands alike; their fanbase spans across the youngest and newest of heavy music recruits all the way to the diehard, life-long metal elite. Without Iron Maiden, Trivium surely wouldn't exist."

Iron Maiden's music also helped Jesper Strömblad of In Flames to pioneer the melodic death metal genre, stating that he had wanted to combine death metal with the melodic guitar sounds of Iron Maiden.

Jon Shaffer, guitarist and founder of Iced Earth, has said that Iron Maiden is his favourite band and The Number of the Beast is his favourite album of all time. Iced Earth have covered three Iron Maiden songs; Transylvania, The Number of the Beast and Hallowed be Thy Name. The cover art of their EP, The Reckoning, is similar to The Trooper single artwork.

Cam Pipes of 3 Inches of Blood stated that Iron Maiden is one of his biggest musical influences.

References in song

Punk rock band NOFX released a song entitled "Eddie, Bruce and Paul" on their 2009 album ''Coaster''. This track tells the story of Iron Maiden, and is performed in the style of their early work.

Weezer mentions them in the song "Heart Songs" from their 2008 self-titled "Red" album. The verse goes: "Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Slayer taught me how to shred..."

The Sum 41 song "Fat Lip" contains the line "Heavy metal and mullets it's how we were raised, Maiden and Priest were the gods that we praised."

Swedish power metal band Sabaton made references to Iron Maiden in their songs "Metal Machine", "Metal Crüe" and "Metal Ripper", referencing various Iron Maiden songs (namely "Fear of the Dark", "Afraid to Shoot Strangers" and "2 Minutes to Midnight") in the first, the name of the band itself in the second and lyrics from the song "The Number of the Beast" in the last.

Image and legacy

Iron Maiden were ranked No. 24 in VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock", fourth in MTV's "Top 10 Greatest Heavy Metal Bands of All Time" and were named as the third best heavy metal band of all time on VH1 Classic: Top 20 Metal Bands. The band also won the Ivor Novello Award for international achievement in 2002 and were inducted into the Hollywood RockWalk whilst touring in the United States in 2005.

Iron Maiden frequently use the slogan "Up the Irons" in their disc liner notes, and the phrase can also be seen on several t-shirts officially licensed by the band. It is a paraphrase of "Up the Hammers," the phrase which refers to the London football club, West Ham United, of which founder Steve Harris is a fan.

Iron Maiden's mascot, Eddie, is a perennial fixture in the band's science fiction and horror-influenced album cover art, as well as in live shows. Eddie was painted exclusively by Derek Riggs until 1992, at which point the band began using artwork from numerous other artists as well, including Melvyn Grant. Eddie is also featured in a first-person shooter video game from the band, ''Ed Hunter'', as well as numerous books, graphic comics and band-related merchandise.

Iron Maiden's distinct logo has adorned all of the band's releases since the debut; the typeface originates with Vic Fair's poster design for 1976 science fiction film, The Man Who Fell To Earth.

In 2008, ''Kerrang!'' released an album, entitled ''Maiden Heaven: A Tribute to Iron Maiden'', composed of Iron Maiden cover songs played by artists such as Metallica, Machine Head, Dream Theater, Trivium, Coheed and Cambria, Avenged Sevenfold, and others who were influenced by Iron Maiden throughout their careers. Well over a half-dozen other Iron Maiden tribute albums (each featuring various artists) exist, including a piano tribute, an electro tribute, a black metal tribute and a hip-hop tribute.

Iron Maiden songs have been featured in the soundtracks of several video games, including ''Carmageddon 2'', ''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'', ''Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City'', ''Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned'', ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4'', ''SSX on Tour'' and ''Madden NFL 10''. Their music also appears in the ''Guitar Hero ''and ''Rock Band'' series of rhythmic video games. Iron Maiden songs have also appeared on the films ''Phenomena'' (called "Creepers" in the U.S.), and ''Murder by Numbers''; while MTV's animated duo Beavis and Butt-head have commented favourably on Iron Maiden several times.

Transformers author Bill Forster is an avowed Iron Maiden fan and made several Iron Maiden references, including song lyrics and the phrase "Up the Irons" in his books, including The Ark series and The AllSpark Almanac series.

Claims of occult references

Influences

Special charter

"Looking at the list of places we would like to play we have always had problems joining up the dots. With sea containers in various places it slows down the whole touring process, which is fine if you want a holiday but not if you want to play. It's great to see places but we don't want to sit around for a week waiting for gear to get from, say, Australia to South America, so this way we can get to more fans in more places en route in the same time period"''

The decoration was restored a year later as the same aircraft (G-OJIB) was used on the final leg of the Somewhere Back in Time tour in 2009. It plays a major role in the award-winning documentary, ''Iron Maiden: Flight 666'', which was released in cinemas in 42 countries in April 2009 and on DVD and Blu-ray in May and June 2009. The film debuted on British television on 4 March 2010 at 11:00 pm on BBC4 as part of Heavy Metal Britannia Weekend.

"Ed Force One" was used again for "The Final Frontier World Tour" in 2011, although this time with altered livery adopting the artwork of "The Final Frontier".

Awards

Band members

;Live members

===Former members===

Discography

Concert tours

See also

References

Literature

External links

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Release

Cover art

Other releases

In early 2002, "Run to the Hills" was again released as a single, and once again in a live version. This time it was the original studio version again, but with live recordings as B-sides. The single was released to raise money for the Clive Burr MS Trust Fund, to help former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr, who is suffering from multiple sclerosis. In March 2002, Iron Maiden played three shows at the Brixton Academy in London to raise money for this trust fund, and the single was released around the same time. Two versions of this single exist, with different B-sides.

Video

Accolades

Appearances

Cover versions

Track listing

1982 7" single (UK: EMI 5263, UK: EMIP 5263 [picture disc], Germany: EMI 1A 006-07604, Netherlands: EMI 1A 006-07604) # "Run to the Hills" (Harris) – 3:50 # "Total Eclipse" (Dave Murray, Harris, Clive Burr) – 4:28 1985 12" single (UK: EMI 12EMI 5542, UK: 12EMIP 5542 [picture disc]) # "Run to the Hills" [live] (Harris) – 3:54 # "Phantom of the Opera" [live] (Harris) – 7:20 # "Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)" [live] (Harris) – 4:14

1985 7" single (UK: EMI EMI 5542) # "Run to the Hills with Hiar" [live] (Harris) – 3:54 # "Phantom of the Opera" [live] (Harris) – 7:20

2002 7" limted single (Europe: EMI EM 612) # "Run to the Hills" (Harris) – 3:50 # "Total Eclipse" [Live '82] (Dave Murray, Harris, Clive Burr) – 4:28

2002 CD single :Part I (UK: EMI CDEM 612/7243 5 50623 0 7) This version of the single contains the studio version of the song "Run to the Hills", while the b-sides were recorded live at the Reading Festival, on August 28, 1982. It also includes the Camp Chaos version of the "Run to the Hills" music video. # "Run to the Hills" (Harris) – 3:50 # "22 Acacia Avenue" [live] (Adrian Smith, Harris) – 6:33 # "The Prisoner" [live] (Smith, Harris) – 5:55 # "Run to the Hills" [Camp Chaos video] (Harris)

:Part II (UK: EMI CDEM 612/7243 5 50623 0 7) This version of the single contains a live version of the song "Run to the Hills", which is the same as on the ''Rock in Rio'' live album. The b-sides for the second version were recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on March 20, 1982. The live video of "Run to the Hills" is also from the ''Rock in Rio'' live album. The cover features Eddie wearing the clothes worn by Bruce Dickinson on the Rock in Rio show. # "Run to the Hills" [live] (Harris) – 4:59 # "Children of the Damned" [live] (Smith, Harris) – 4:32 # "Total Eclipse" [live] (Dave Murray, Harris, Clive Burr) – 3:57 # "Run to the Hills" [live video]

Personnel

Notes

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