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When Iron Maiden asked Patrick McGoohan if they could use audio from The Prisoner TV show

22 August 2025 SB 0

Iron Maiden may not have been sure of this themselves at the time, but they were going from strength to strength for the first half […]

IRON MAIDEN – «Senjutsu» (2021)

14 November 2021 SB 0

Iron Maiden’s seventeenth studio album Senjutsu arrived six years after their previous one (2015’s The Book of Souls) on 3 September 2021. For the second […]

THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG: «Rime of the Ancient Mariner» by Iron Maiden

6 July 2021 SB 0

Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the cornerstone tracks on the classic fifth Iron Maiden album Powerslave from 1984. It is a true […]

THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG: «The Clansman» by Iron Maiden

17 April 2021 SB 0

When Bruce Dickinson left Iron Maiden in 1993 people wondered what would become of the band. It happened amid several similar cases of lead vocalists […]

THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG: «To Tame A Land» by Iron Maiden

1 July 2019 SB 0

Iron Maiden, and in particular their bass-playing band leader (and frequently the main song writer) Steve Harris, often base their compositions on books, TV shows, […]

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