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The World Slavery Tour was a concert tour by the heavy metal band Iron Maiden in support of their fifth album, Powerslave, beginning in Warsaw, Poland on 9 August 1984 and ending in Irvine, California on 5 July 1985.
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris.Although fluid in the early years of the band, the line-up for most of the band's history has consisted of Harris, lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson, drummer Nicko McBrain, and guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers.
PowerSlave, known as Exhumed in Europe and 1999 AD: ... The U.S title PowerSlave is a reference to the Iron Maiden album of the same name, ...
"2 Minutes to Midnight" is a song by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, featured on their fifth studio album, Powerslave (1984). It was released as the band's tenth single, and first from the album on 6 August 1984. It rose to number 11 on the UK Singles Chart and number 25 on Billboard Top Album Tracks.
Iron Maiden's World Slavery Tour began in Warsaw, Poland on 9 August 1984 [2] and lasted 331 days, [3] during which 187 concerts were performed [4] To tie in with their 1984 album, Powerslave, [5] the tour's stage show adhered to an ancient Egyptian theme, which was decorated with sarcophagi and Egyptian hieroglyphs, and mummified representations of the band's mascot, Eddie, in addition to ...
It was also the first Iron Maiden album to feature keyboards, after the band had introduced non-keyboard synth effects on their previous LP, Somewhere in Time (1986). After his contributions were rejected for Somewhere in Time , Seventh Son of a Seventh Son features several songs co-written by lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson , who states that his ...
"Aces High" is a song by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, written by the band's bassist Steve Harris. It is Iron Maiden's eleventh single release and the second from their fifth studio album, Powerslave (1984). The first B-side is a cover of Nektar's "King of Twilight", from their 1972 album A Tab in the Ocean. Their cover is actually a ...
In addition to the album's artwork and title, the song was a prominent target of religious groups in the United States who accused Iron Maiden of being a Satanic group. [ 5 ] [ 25 ] The controversy led to organised burnings of the group's albums as well as several protests during their 1982 tour , [ 2 ] [ 25 ] although this would only serve to ...