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Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, October 1983
A DREAM. I'm lounging on the balcony of a Beverly Hills hotel staring out over the pool when there's a knock on the door. In ...
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Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson (1988)
Interview by Simon Witter, Rock's Backpages Audio, March 1988
The ever-articulate Maiden frontman talks about his early influences, his cynicism towards the rock'n'roll lifestyle, songwriting, the cathartic qualities of heavy metal and...fencing!
File format: mp3; file size: 51.4mb, interview length: 56' 10" sound quality: ***
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Profile and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, February 1980
HEAVY METAL has been around for as long as I can remember. It grew from the blues and just never died despite years of cold ...
Iron Maiden: Run For The Pils!
Report and Interview by Phil Bell, Sounds, February 1982
The flanning of Iron Maiden: report by PHILIP BELL ...
Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast (EMI)****1/2
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, March 1982
DREAMS DON'T come true too often so when they do it's worth making a song and dance about them. The Steve Harris story is a ...
Iron Maiden: The Metal Masquerade
Interview by Paul Morley, NME, May 1982
THE UNSMILING but unthreatening Iron Maiden are being photographed in the bright white tiled shower room of a compact sports stadium in Offenbach, near Frankfurt ...
Iron Maiden: Unleashed With The Beast
Report by Garry Bushell, Sounds, August 1982
CORPUS CHRISTI lies humid and unhurried under a scorching Texas sun. The shining orb's efforts to reduce the populus to mobile blobs of molten jelly ...
Iron Maiden: What's It All About Eddie?
Interview by Karen Schlosberg, Creem, July 1985
HEAVY METAL. Now – wait. Before you all go screaming off into the night, crossing yourselves and mouthing prayers to the soul of Michael Jackson, ...
Iron Maiden: Apollo Theatre, Oxford
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 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, ...
Welcome To The Machine: Iron Maiden
Interview by Simon Witter, NME, March 1988
MUCH AS WE may laugh at the blustering antics of its ambassadors, HM is no joke. As a kind of musical Rollerball, exorcising taboos and ...
Iron Maiden: Pas de moshing, s’il vous plait!
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, January 1991
"MES AMIS, il faut que nous arretons un moment," says the longhaired singer in leather jacket, skintight sports trews and a French accent truly Churchillian ...
Iron Maiden: Dance Of Death (EMI)
Review by Ian Fortnam, Classic Rock, October 2003
IN ESSENCE, Iron Maiden are the rock Marmite. Ambivalence is simply not an option when bearing witness to their characteristic onslaught of dense, prog-laced riffage. ...
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