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engineer was gonna be good enough to record us, and that was it, really. We just went in there with a naïve attitude and, as it happens, it was pretty good. The songs were very together already. We didn't have to arrange much. They were very tight, 'cause we were doing them live all the time. We knew exactly what we needed to do. It was just a question of whether we could record it all in time. But we went in and the tracks went down really quick. I think we did most of them in the first take."
369:. As stated the former editor of the German magazine Rock Hard, Götz Kühnemund, Iron Maiden were (and still are) the inspiration for all the heavy metal bands we know today because they're an intrinsically heavy metal group. It is equally important for those who play power metal, speed, thrash, death, black, hard rock – almost every genre. Iron Maiden took hard rock from the '70s, took it into the' 80s, and created a new genre that didn't exist before. This band with independently distributed
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273:'s peak in the UK, Iron Maiden struggled to secure gigs out of the East End of London and decided that a demo would be an ideal way to try to remedy this. The band decided to record at Spaceward Studios, Cambridge after hearing a demo tape recorded there by former vocalist Dennis Wilcock's band, V1. Although this would be more expensive than recording in London, bassist
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tried to order 20,000 copies each. Smallwood states, "we could have really cashed in at that point. It was our record, not EMI's, and we could have made enough to clear our debts, if we'd wanted to, maybe got it in the charts, even. But there was just no way. It really was something special for the
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2093:Discography
1921:Rock in Rio
1616:The Trooper
1528:Live!! +one
1355:Rock in Rio
1305:Live albums
1183:Iron Maiden
1123:Janick Gers
1095:Dave Murray
1076:Iron Maiden
506:bass guitar
490:Dave Murray
316:EMI Records
286:Dave Murray
251:Iron Maiden
170:Live!! +one
146:Iron Maiden
140:Iron Maiden
103:Heavy metal
88:Spaceward (
44:Iron Maiden
2215:Categories
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1679:Holy Smoke
1383:Flight 666
1253:Virtual XI
1211:Powerslave
1161:Clive Burr
1141:Tony Moore
947:. Canada.
861:Wall, Mick
828:Wall, Mick
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767:Wall, Mick
678:Wall, Mick
612:Wall, Mick
579:Wall, Mick
540:References
521:Production
443:"Invasion"
77:1978-12-31
73:1978-12-30
58:1979-11-09
1805:El Dorado
1784:Rainmaker
1630:Aces High
1588:Purgatory
1567:Sanctuary
1436:Ed Hunter
963:cite book
475:Personnel
454:"Prowler"
271:punk rock
130:Rock Hard
90:Cambridge
2199:Category
2135:Gogmagog
1956:En Vivo!
1756:Futureal
1481:Box sets
1390:En Vivo!
1295:Senjutsu
1131:Paul Day
1008:19 March
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562:AllMusic
528:engineer
422:Side two
389:Side one
298:Neal Kay
204:AllMusic
136:Producer
75: –
66:Recorded
51:Released
41: by
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1190:Killers
174:(1980)
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350:Virgin
328:Sounds
308:Sounds
303:Sounds
198:Rating
195:Source
109:Length
85:Studio
2113:Eddie
2098:Songs
1974:Tours
1742:Virus
515:drums
467:11:28
432:Title
399:Title
126:Label
98:Genre
1035:2012
1010:2013
969:link
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