IRON MAIDEN LIVE ALBUM COMING NOVEMBER 20TH
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IRON MAIDEN LIVE ALBUM COMING NOVEMBER 20TH
'NIGHTS OF THE DEAD,
LEGACY OF THE BEAST: LIVE IN MEXICO CITY'
BMG are pleased to announce the release of IRON MAIDEN’s new double live album on November 20th worldwide. Containing over 100 minutes of classic Maiden music and available in multiple formats, including a limited edition Mexican Flag, triple colored (180g) vinyl and a limited edition deluxe 2 CD book format, Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast: Live in Mexico City was recorded during the band’s three sold out arena shows there in September 2019 and is a celebration of their Legacy Of The Beast World Tour which began in 2018 and will finish next Summer in Europe.
The track-listing is:
Churchill’s Speech
Aces High
Where Eagles Dare
2 Minutes To Midnight
The Clansman
The Trooper
Revelations
For The Greater Good Of God
The Wicker Man
Sign Of The Cross
Flight Of Icarus
Fear Of The Dark
Iron Maiden
The Number Of The Beast
The Evil That Men Do
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Run To The Hills
Iron Maiden founder and bass player Steve Harris comments:
“When the final leg of our 2020 Legacy tour this summer had to be cancelled due to the COVID pandemic, the whole band was very disappointed and deflated and we know our fans felt the same. We’d been really looking forward to bringing the show to even more countries and although we’ve been able to reschedule most of our European own-shows for 2021, we thought we’d take a listen to the recordings from the tour so far and see if we could create a definitive live album souvenir that everyone, everywhere could enjoy. I’m very pleased with the results, especially as this set list includes songs which have never made it to a live CD before, such as ‘For The Greater Good Of God,’ and other older songs like ‘Where Eagles Dare,’ ‘Flight Of Icarus,’ ‘The Clansman’ and ‘Sign Of The Cross’ which haven’t been included in our live set releases for many years.
We’ve never released a live album from Mexico before and I think this recording does justice to the passion and joy of our Mexican fans who always give us such a fantastic welcome whenever we play there.”
Maiden manager Rod Smallwood adds:
“All the shows on the tour so far have been amazing and our fans have loved the whole Legacy extravaganza with the elaborately themed stages, props and drapes, not to mention the killer set-list! When our 2020 tour got cancelled, putting together a live album seemed the obvious thing to do and I think Steve, along with co-producer Tony Newton, has perfectly captured the essence of the 70,000-strong crowd across these three nights in Mexico City. The album serves both as a celebration of this tour, which almost two million fans have already seen, and as a taster for, hopefully, next year’s final run for anyone who hasn’t yet experienced the show.”
The album will be available in these formats:
- 2 CD Digipak
- Limited edition deluxe 2 CD book format
- Heavyweight 180g triple black vinyl
- Limited edition heavyweight 180g Mexican Flag triple colored vinyl
- Digital (streaming and download).
For more information go to www.ironmaiden.com
LEGACY OF THE BEAST 2021 EUROPEAN TOUR FINAL LEG:
JUNE 11 POGE NARODOWY, WARSAW, POLAND
JUNE 13 BUERGERWEIDE, BREMEN, GERMANY
JUNE 15 SINOBO STADIUM, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
JUNE 16 STADIUM OPEN AIR, WIENER NEUSTADT, AUSTRIA
JUNE 19 OLYMPIC STADIUM, BARCELONA, SPAIN
JUNE 21 ESTADIO NACIONAL, LISBON, PORTUGAL
JUNE 24 SONIC PARK, BOLOGNA, ITALY
JUNE 26 MERCEDES-BENZ ARENA, STUTTGART, GERMANY
JUNE 27 SPORTPALEIS, ANTWERP, BELGIUM
JUNE 30 WALDBUEHNE, BERLIN, GERMANY
JULY 03 ULLEVI STADIUM, GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN
JULY 08 RHEIN-ENERGIE-STADIUM, COLOGNE, GERMANY
JULY 10 GELREDOME, ARNHEM, THE NETHERLANDS
JULY 11 LA DEFENSE ARENA, PARIS, FRANCE
My Life as Iron Maiden's Compulsive Angler
Monsters of River & Rock
My Life as Iron Maiden's Compulsive Angler
Adrian Smith
November 3 | BMG Books | Hardback & eBook
Legendary Iron Maiden guitarist takes you to the final frontier of fishing.
“Back at the hotel, I sat back, glass of wine in hand, and studied the tour itinerary... Let’s see, Hartford, Connecticut ... big carp in the Connecticut river ... Montreal, smallmouth bass in the St Lawrence ... Winnipeg, always fancied having a go for those big catfish in the Red river ... and so on. The endless road and winding river ...”
LOS ANGELES, CA – August 21, 2020 – Adrian Smith, the legendary lead guitarist of 100-million- album-selling band Iron Maiden, is well known in the Maiden community as a celebrated angler whose fishing gear travels with him as he tours across the world. In his first, very personal riverside memoir, Monsters of River & Rock, Smith takes us with him on an incredible journey through the highs and lows of life—both on the road and on the riverbank. “If you’re a trout fisherman, there’s a bit of trout fishing in there,” Smith explains. “There’s a lot of course fishing. There’s some sea fishing, fly fishing. There’s a lot of different kinds of fishing.”
Adrian got hooked on fishing as a child growing up in East London, plundering ponds and bomb craters on the Hackney Marshes for newts and sticklebacks, and catching perch from the Grand Union Canal while on outings with his father. Things began to get more exotic when the young angling enthusiast grew up to become lead guitarist in one of the most successful rock bands in history and started traveling the world playing to millions of fans. But once a fisherman, always a fisherman. The gear went with him, the fish got bigger, the adventures more extreme.
Adrian’s rock and roll experiences add a fresh dimension to his unique memoir. “I could have written a straight-out fishing book,” Adrian elaborates, “I thought, to make it different, it would be good to include some music stories.” It is fishing that helps keep him balanced during a rigorous tour schedule. For him, the book illustrates “why you look forward to going fishing when times get a bit hard.”
Welcome to the world of Adrian Smith, as he clocks in to his day job furthering the geographical boundaries of hard rock, and clocks out to explore far-flung rivers, seas, waterways, lakes, and pools on his fearless quest for fishing nirvana. His adventures range from his first sturgeon, a whopping 100-pounder from Canada’s swirling Fraser River that nearly wiped him out mid-Maiden tour, to a close shave with a large shark off the Virgin Islands while wading waist-deep for bonefish. Not to mention an enviable list of specimen coarse fish from the UK that made him a cover star of the course-fishing bible Angler’s Mail (biggest chub of the season, August 2009).
Charming, funny, and moving in equal measure, Monsters of River & Rock is the ultimate fishing-fantasy armchair read and is also the story of a rock star in a fast-moving world who seeks peace and tranquility at the water’s edge – no matter where in the world he happens to be.
About the Author
Adrian Smith was born in Hackney, East London, on February 27, 1957. He joined Iron Maiden at the end of 1980. Adrian is the band member who has collaborated on the most side projects outside of Iron Maiden, as well as writing and recording a series of albums in the early '90s, before rejoining the band. Iron Maiden has sold 100 million albums, and tours the world playing to millions of fans. Onstage, Adrian uses Jackson and Gibson guitars. Offstage, he is an avid tennis player, however his main hobby is fishing. He takes his rod and gear out on tour with him wherever he goes. This is his first book.
Watch the book trailer and hear Adrian talk the process of writing his memoir at vimeo.com/447854831
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