Iron Maiden: Apollo Theatre, Oxford
Jack Barron, Sounds, 18 October 1986
ON THE opening night of the British leg of their world tour to promote an album called Somewhere In Time, Iron Maiden play like pirates, and inside the Apollo approximately 2,000 heads shake – not in some sort of neanderthal waltz but in a pogo.
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