Episode 366: Iron Maiden Killers year 1981.- English Version.-

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00:00:34 - Today we have the killer from Iron Maiden's second album.

00:00:44 - Finding classic rocks all time the most incredible stories and anecdotes.

00:00:50 - Musicians Bruce Dickinson want to see us and you know I mean first of all we love you know we love doing it it's it's really a kind of a privilege to be you know 51 years old I'm being able to go out just still to have a boy let me well it's spelled differently everything is called old guzmachon.

00:01:20 - Rod Halford

00:01:21 - I think are useful, just because of the fact that with what I try and do it's important to try and...

00:01:32 - Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley

00:01:34 - But piano was inconceivable, I mean, you can't, you can't just go and buy a piano or his guitar is much more accessible.

00:01:41 - I think I was very driven period.

00:01:44 - It was to compensate, to make myself feel more worthy.

00:02:14 - Killers is the second album by the British band Iron Maiden, released in 1981.

00:02:24 - The band had just appeared in the field of rock and was made up of Steve Harris.

00:02:29 - Bass guitarist, Paul Diano, vocalist, Dave Murray, guitarist, Adrian Smith, guitarist and Clyde Burr, drummer, following a brief tour of the UK in an appearance on German television, the quintet set out to record, Killers, with much material in the bag from the band's early days.

00:02:52 - Yet another career-defining change was needed, most notably in song production, and to that end, they recruited Martin Birch for production duties.

00:03:01 - The song Killers begins with a bass opening by Steve Harris, which gives it a special touch.

00:03:06 - It became another Iron Maiden classic, a must-have for any The Beast show and still sounds great to this day.

00:03:13 - The composition is tremendous and very good.

00:03:16 - Paul Diana's voice, the choirs and the constant gallop of the bass, with the guitars were already taking their first steps here and hit the nail right on the head.

00:03:25 - At this time the English found their perfect formula and never stopped.

00:03:32 - Spent eight weeks on the UK chart.

00:03:35 - The North American edition, which came out a few months later, was initially released on Harvest Records, Capitol Records and later on Sanctuary Records, Columbia Records.

00:03:45 - The title track from Iron Maiden's second album, Killers, was written by the group's frontman Steve Harris and their original lead singer Paul Diano, who was replaced by Bruce Dickinson for his next album.

00:03:57 - In our interview with D, Anno explained, it was about a psychotic killer, what

00:04:01 - What is he thinking while he's doing it?

00:04:04 - The band performed this song at London's Rainbow Theatre on December 21, 1980 during a show to be released as the home video live at the Rainbow.

00:04:13 - The band hadn't recorded the song yet and Deano hadn't written the lyrics, but Harris was adamant about performing it, causing Deano to come up with a few words in a hurry improvising.

00:04:23 - It said,

00:04:24 - I had a rough idea, but made up the words as we went along, live on stage, in front of all those damn people.

00:04:31 - He told us, they're different than how they are on the album.

00:04:35 - The song was performed by Bruce Dickinson on the 7th Sun Tour in 1988.

00:04:46 - Steve Harris also tells us, I was a tender age of 19, about 5 years, 4-5 years to get a record deal.

00:04:54 - Played every pub and club that there is to play around the UK pretty much.

00:04:58 - It was incredible, the success we had, really right from the first album.

00:05:04 - I mean, their first album went Gold in Japan.

00:05:06 - And it meant that we were able to go and do a European tour with Kiss.

00:05:11 - Plans were like, you know, thousands and thousands of people.

00:05:16 - So that was an experience.

00:05:17 - And from then on it just really took off.

00:05:19 - I don't know if you're proudest moment of the year, but I suppose it was...

00:05:22 - I suppose in the early days, I suppose it was just, you know, you know, actually signing a rickshaw deal, you know, and think that we achieved, we could actually now go and make an album.

00:05:31 - Playing the marquee for the first time as well and selling it out was proud because we tried for ages to get a gig there.

00:05:37 - We couldn't get a gig.

00:05:39 - When we finally didn't get a gig there, we completely sold it out.

00:05:41 - We're gonna cut it out.

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00:07:11 - I'll kill her behind you, if I've lost it, I'll burn his knee

00:07:32 - My innocent victims are slaughtered with rotten displays

00:07:36 - A locking religion of hatred that burns in the night

00:07:41 - I have no one about to destroy of its greed

00:07:48 - A place inside me compelling to serve it for me

00:08:06 - I could see what it might seem to be

00:08:30 - You'll never know how I came to fight CCC

00:09:00 - I think they believe in the stronger the life lines and ties

00:09:22 - The glimmer of metal my moment is ready to strike

00:09:28 - The death call around you, the screenwigs are still up the night

00:09:34 - Another tomorrow, remember to walk in the night

00:09:40 - I've found you, and now there is no peace of mind

00:09:44 - Excitement, it shakes me

00:09:47 - Oh God, help me, what have I done?

00:09:51 - Oh yeah, I'm done it again

00:09:58 - You walked in the subway, my life burned a hole in your back

00:10:09 - A footstep behind you and your knees prepared for attack

00:10:14 - Scream for mercy and now says she's watching you bleed

00:10:21 - Killer behind you, my blood left defies all my knees

00:10:27 - Ooh, look out, I'm coming for you

00:10:31 - Ooh, baby

00:10:32 - Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

00:10:37 - Ah-ha