I know last week I forgot to entretain you guys with a band of the week so this week we are having back to back bands of the week, last week's band of the week was none other than "The Beast" Iron Maiden.
Iron Maiden is an English heavy metal band from Leyton, East London, England, formed in 1975. The band got started as a side project by bassist Steve Harris, shortly after he left his previous group, Smiler. The longest living members of the original band are Steve Harris and guitarist Dave Murray. Original vocalist Paul Day was fired as he lacked "energy or charisma onstage". The band split in 1976, A poor gig at the Bridgehouse in November 1977, with a makeshift line-up including Tony Moore on keyboards, Terry Wapram on guitar, and drummer Barry Purkis resulted in Harris firing the entire band. Dave Murray was reinstated and Doug Sampson was hired as drummer. They struck gold in 1
978 when they released their first demo The Soundhouse Tapes. Featuring only three songs, the band sold all five thousand copies within weeks. Several other guitarists were temporarily hired until the band finally settled on Dennis Stratton. In 1980 they reached the UK Albums Chart with their first album "Iron Maiden", the group became one of the leading proponents of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement.
978 when they released their first demo The Soundhouse Tapes. Featuring only three songs, the band sold all five thousand copies within weeks. Several other guitarists were temporarily hired until the band finally settled on Dennis Stratton. In 1980 they reached the UK Albums Chart with their first album "Iron Maiden", the group became one of the leading proponents of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement.By 1981, Paul Di'Anno was demonstrating increasingly self-destructive behaviour, particularly through cocaine usage. His performances began to suffer, just as the band was beginning to achieve large-scale success in America. At the end of 1981 the band fired Di'Anno and began to seek a new vocalist. Bruce Dickinson tried out and became the band's new vocalist.
After their release of their album "The Number Of The Beast" Iron Maiden was declared to be "Satanist" in many countries. To the point where a group of Christian activists went on to destroy Iron Maiden records in protest against the band.
The band released Powerslave on September 9, 1984. The album featured fan favourites "2 Minutes to Midnight", "Aces High", and "Rime of The Ancient Mariner". The tour following the album, dubbed the World Slavery Tour, was the band's biggest to date and consisted of 193 shows over 13 months. This was one of the biggest tours in music history.
In 1995 the band released 'The X Factor', the band faced their lowest chart position since 1981 for an album in the UK . Chief songwriter Harris was experiencing personal problems at the time with the break-up of his marriage, and many fans and critics feel the album's sound is a reflection of this.
Now it is 2009 and Maiden has set out to run their best tour yet, rumor has it that this is their last tour before retierment and guess what city and arena got selected to be their closing show for their tour, The Bank Atlantic Center in Ft.Lauderdale, Florida.
Do you feel honored that we got selected out of any city to be their last American Tour Date?
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