Maiden Central

The video that kicked off the “Modern Era” (read: post-Blaze, and return-to-mass-popularity) of Iron Maiden.

A bit of Friday silliness… Here’s Maiden’s ‘Number of the Beast’ compressed as an MP3 666 times!

Following on from this morning’s profile of Killers, here’s a clip of Maiden performing ‘Another Life’ (which features on that album) way back in April 1980, around the time their debut was released. Absolutely awesome. Note: this is an old home video, and naturally the quality is not top notch! It also includes a rather… meandering drum solo from Clive Burr.

(Friday Fave is a weekly series of my personal favourite Maiden tracks)

This, the first Friday Fave, has to be my favourite Maiden track. Written by my favourite member (Adrian Smith, natch), and from my favourite album (Somewhere In Time). It is (as you’d have noticed by now), ‘Wasted Years’.