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ROD SMALLWOOD Counts Down His Top Ten IRON MAIDEN Songs From The '80s - Number Of The Beast: #10




North American fans are poised to witness a massive visit from British
metal icons IRON MAIDEN. And it's another vital history lesson. The
Maiden England World Tour will closely mirror, in terms of production
and content, the original 1988 concert video of the same name, shot on
the Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Tour. This opening section of the World
Tour is the band’s most extensive visit to North America for many years
and marks the third chapter in the History of Iron Maiden, a journey
which began in 2004 with The Early Days DVD and subsequent 2005 Early
Days Tour. Part Two followed in 2008 with the Live After Death DVD - the
seminal 1984 concert recorded at Los Angeles' Long Beach Arena during
the World Slavery Tour - and the band embarking on their groundbreaking
Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008/9, which saw them play to over
two million fans in almost 40 countries.





To help celebrate the Maiden England World North American Tour 2012,
we are honoured with the presence of legendary Iron Maiden manager ROD
SMALLWOOD who will fittingly take us on his own private history lesson
as he talks about his Top Ten Iron Maiden Songs From The '80s. In no
particular order, let's take a look back when Eddie ruled the '80s!


Says Rod Smallwood: "These are my favourite ten Maiden tracks, in no
particular order, which have been selected from the 1980s as this is
the period the Maiden England tour is covering. At the time of writing
the band are rehearsing for the tour. All systems go! Here are my
favourite tracks from the '80s for a variety of reasons."





Rod Smallwood's Top Ten Iron Maiden Songs From The '80s


#10: 'Prowler' (1981)


Rod Smallwood: "This is a wonderful song. I include it as one of my
favourites because it's the first Iron Maiden track I ever heard. When I
first got the tape, which was from Basement Studio - and which
eventually became The Soundhouse Tapes - it was via a rugby mate of mine
who was working with Steve Harris at the time and I was given it to
listen to along the lines of: 'Rod. A mate at work has a band. Do you
wanna hear the demos?' I took it home, put the tape in the deck and the
first song that came up was 'Prowler'. Being a heavy rock fan in the
middle of the punk rock era (I grew up listening to DEEP PURPLE, LED
ZEPPELIN, THE WHO etc...) it was very refreshing to hear something with
so much manic energy. The Tapes went on to be the #1 requested music at
The Soundhouse, a legendary rock club in London run by a DJ called Neal
Kay. So it's always going to be a memorable song in my life as it
alerted me to Iron Maiden and how very different they sounded to
everything else going on at that time."

ROD SMALLWOOD Counts Down His Top Ten IRON MAIDEN Songs From The '80s - Number Of The Beast: 6




North American fans are poised to witness a massive visit from British
metal icons IRON MAIDEN. And it's another vital history lesson. The
Maiden England World Tour will closely mirror, in terms of production
and content, the original 1988 concert video of the same name, shot on
the Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Tour. This opening section of the World
Tour is the band’s most extensive visit to North America for many years
and marks the third chapter in the History of Iron Maiden, a journey
which began in 2004 with The Early Days DVD and subsequent 2005 Early
Days Tour. Part Two followed in 2008 with the Live After Death DVD - the
seminal 1984 concert recorded at Los Angeles' Long Beach Arena during
the World Slavery Tour - and the band embarking on their groundbreaking
Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008/9, which saw them play to over
two million fans in almost 40 countries.





To help celebrate the Maiden England World North American Tour 2012,
we are honoured with the presence of legendary Iron Maiden manager ROD
SMALLWOOD who will fittingly take us on his own private history lesson
as he talks about his Top Ten Iron Maiden Songs From The '80s. In no
particular order, let's take a look back when Eddie ruled the '80s!


Says Rod Smallwood: "These are my favourite ten Maiden tracks, in no
particular order, which have been selected from the 1980s as this is
the period the Maiden England tour is covering. At the time of writing
the band are rehearsing for the tour. All systems go! Here are my
favourite tracks from the '80s for a variety of reasons."





Rod Smallwood's Top Ten Iron Maiden Songs From The '80s


#6: 'Run To The Hills' (1983 - The Number Of The Beast)


Rod Smallwood: "This one is probably in most people's Top 5 Maiden
songs and it's a fairly obvious choice as it was the first single to be
released off The

Number Of The Beast album and it was a smash hit in the UK. We'd
done pretty well with singles up to that point, we'd always go into the
Top 30. Back in those days, when 7" vinyl singles were released in a
nice bag and were a physical thing to own and treasure, tens of
thousands of copies were sold each week. 'Run To The Hills' really took
off. It reached No 7 and sold over a quarter of a million copies in the
UK. It put Maiden firmly in the public eye, which in turn catapulted The
Number Of The Beast into a whole new stratosphere, so I have very great
memories of that song and its significance to Maiden's career. "

Rod Smallwood's Top Ten Iron Maiden Songs From The '80s

#10: 'Prowler' (1981 - Iron Maiden)

#9: 'Phantom Of The Opera' (1981 - Iron Maiden)

#8: 'Where Eagles Dare' (1983 - Piece Of Mind)

#7: 'Aces High' (1984 - Powerslave)

#6: 'Run To The Hills' (1983 - The Number Of The Beast)

ROD SMALLWOOD Counts Down His Top Ten IRON MAIDEN Songs From The '80s - Number Of The Beast: 4


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North American fans are poised to witness a massive visit from British
metal icons IRON MAIDEN. And it's another vital history lesson. The
Maiden England World Tour will closely mirror, in terms of production
and content, the original 1988 concert video of the same name, shot on
the Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son Tour. This opening section of the World
Tour is the band’s most extensive visit to North America for many years
and marks the third chapter in the History of Iron Maiden, a journey
which began in 2004 with The Early Days DVD and subsequent 2005 Early
Days Tour. Part Two followed in 2008 with the Live After Death DVD - the
seminal 1984 concert recorded at Los Angeles' Long Beach Arena during
the World Slavery Tour - and the band embarking on their groundbreaking
Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008/9, which saw them play to over
two million fans in almost 40 countries.





To help celebrate the Maiden England World North American Tour 2012,
we are honoured with the presence of legendary Iron Maiden manager ROD
SMALLWOOD who will fittingly take us on his own private history lesson
as he talks about his Top Ten Iron Maiden Songs From The '80s. In no
particular order, let's take a look back when Eddie ruled the '80s!


Says Rod Smallwood: "These are my favourite ten Maiden tracks, in no
particular order, which have been selected from the 1980s as this is
the period the Maiden England tour is covering. At the time of writing
the band are rehearsing for the tour. All systems go! Here are my
favourite tracks from the '80s for a variety of reasons."





Rod Smallwood's Top Ten Iron Maiden Songs From The '80s


#4: 'Can I Play With Madness' (1988 - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son)


Rod Smallwood: "This was a big single from the Seventh Son Of A
Seventh Son album. Maiden had four Top Ten singles from this album and
Madness was the first. I do remember we had a lot of fun making the
video for it. It featured Graham Chapman, one of the Monty Python team,
who has sadly since passed away. The video was edited by Julian Doyle
who worked on, amongst many other things, the film Time Bandits and he
also later

collaborated with Bruce Dickinson to direct the Chemical Wedding
film. It was a fantastic video and was a very different song for Maiden
at the time which went down very well with the fans, and continues to do
so."