Tag: Iron Maiden
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How Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson Channelled the Spirit Of Dio In The Classic “Number of the Beast”
Paul Dickinson was expelled from Oundle boarding school for the amusing yet nauseating reason that he relieved himself into a meal he had prepared for his teachers. The Evil That Men Do may or may not live on and on, but at the very least it will get them kicked out of private school. It…
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Christmas Gifts For The Music Lover In Your Life
By now, you have probably seen all those other Christmas Gift lists on other sites, telling you that there’s a nice set of headphones for a couple of grand, or an iPod dock for £800. (Who are these people who spend that much at Christmas? And why don’t I know any of them?) It’s enough…
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For Sale: Can You Guess Which Rock Star’s House Is On The Market?
It’s not every day that a rock legend puts their house up for sale…but whose house is it? Let’s look Through the Keyhole… Knowing that the demographics of the Every Record Tells A Story readership includes many multi-millionaire rock fans, where better for a rock star to advertise their des res than in these very…
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How $5.98 Made Metallica Millions
Metallica may have been the band to change the mainstream’s minds about the so-called thrash metal movement, but they did it in the UK not through (3rd album) the magnificent Master of Puppets, but by the follow up. And no, I don’t mean …And Justice For All. Master of Puppets made the top fifty in…
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Remember The First Time You Heard…Metallica?
After three incredible albums in the ’80’s Metallica were still only rock music’s most popular cult band. Alongside Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth they had spearheaded a movement (thrash metal) that, like the Olympics’ Beach Volleyball, had yet to convince the mainstream that it should be taken seriously. Yes – that’s it. Metallica were the beach…
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Guns n Roses at Donington ’88 – The Triumph and The Tragedy
The Donington Monsters of Rock Festival in 1988 was headlined by Iron Maiden, but Guns n Roses – and a tragedy – stole the headlines. Now known as The Download Festival, the annual pilgrimage of UK Heavy Metal fans to a field outside Nottingham (Castle Donington) is as essential a rite de passage for every…
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And Iron Maiden’s Best Live album is…..
Which is Iron Maiden’s best live album? (After all – with the release of En Vivo – they have released no less than ten…!) Back in December 1985 Kerrang! had given me two new ways to discover new music: their end of year critics poll (best album: Bryan Adams’ Reckless) and a 20 track K!…
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