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"The Trooper" is a song by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released as the second single on 20 June 1983 from the band's fourth studio album, Piece of Mind (1983). It was one of only a few Iron Maiden songs to achieve frequent radio airplay in the United States, peaking at No. 28 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock .
Eddie (also known as Eddie the Head) is the mascot for the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden.He is a perennial fixture of the group's artwork, appearing in all of their album covers (as well as most of their singles) and in their merchandise, which includes T-shirts, posters and action figures.
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.
Iron Maiden's management came across it while looking through Riggs' portfolio, [6] and asked him to add hair to the figure to make it look less punk-like. [5] The resulting picture was used for the debut album, Iron Maiden , released in 1980, and Riggs went on to work with Iron Maiden throughout the 1980s and into the '90s, creating many of ...
Despite being a member of the band since 1982, it took until 2003 for drummer Nicko McBrain to write a song for Iron Maiden, namely "New Frontier" for Dance of Death. During his brief tenure with the band, vocalist Blaze Bayley helped write eight songs on the two Iron Maiden albums on which he performed, The X Factor and Virtual XI, as well as ...
Iron Maiden thus became a six-piece band and have gone on to make six further studio releases. This lineup is now the longest and most stable in the band's history. On 7 December 2024, McBrain announced he was retiring from touring due to health issues following the band's show on that day, [30] but would remain a member of the band. [31]
In 2010, Maiden uniteD, featuring lead singer Damian Wilson, released an all-acoustic reinterpretation of the album entitled Mind the Acoustic Pieces. [25] Two songs were covered for the 2008 tribute album Maiden Heaven: A Tribute to Iron Maiden: "The Trooper" by Coheed and Cambria and "To Tame a Land" by Dream Theater. [26]
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 ...