Line #10 ShoutOut/IronMaiden


1	->''"Heavy metal has a reputation as being music for idiots. That's not just unfair, it's also completely inaccurate – and nobody proves it more than Maiden. They are metal's most bookish band."''
2	-->-- '''Music Radar, "[[http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/10-reasons-why-iron-maiden-deserved-their-brit-award-197372/ 10 reasons why Iron Maiden deserved their Brit Award]]"'''
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4	!The band
5	* The band takes its name from the movie ''The Man in the Iron Mask''.
6	* Music/BruceDickinson's original {{stage name\|s}} was "Bruce Bruce", a nod towards Creator/MontyPython.
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8	!''[[Music/IronMaidenAlbum Iron Maiden]]''
9	* The cover art for the "Running Free" single has stencils of bands such as Music/{{Scorpions\|Band}}, Music/JudasPriest, Music/{{ACDC}}, Music/SexPistols and Music/LedZeppelin. There's also the word "Hammers", referencing West Ham United, Steve's favourite football/soccer team.
10	* "Phantom Of The Opera" provides a shout-out to ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
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12	!''Music/{{Killers}}''
13	* "The Ides of March" is an interpretation of Samson's "Thunderburst".
14	* "Murders in the Rue Morgue", towards Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's work of the same name.
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16	!''Music/TheNumberOfTheBeast''
17	* "Invaders" is about the viking invasions of Britain.
18	* "Children of the Damned", towards both the [[Film/ChildrenOfTheDamned eponymous film]] and Film/VillageOfTheDamned1960, as well as Music/RonnieJamesDio-era Music/BlackSabbath song "Children of the Sea".
19	* "The Prisoner", towards [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 the eponymous series]].
20	** The spoken intro of the song is taken from the second chapter, "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE2TheChimesOfBigBen The Chimes of Big Ben]]".
21	** It's rumoured that Creator/PatrickMcGoohan himself, when the band asked for permission to use lines from the show, said "What was the band's name again?...a rock band, you say?...do it!". Picture those words in your mind along with that trademark cadence to [=Patrick McGoohan=]'s voice and you're spot on.
22	* The eponymous track is inspired by a nightmare bassist Steve Harris had after watching the film ''Film/DamienOmenII''. According to him, the lyrics were also influenced by Robert Burns' "Tam o' Shanter".
23	** The spoken introduction by Barry Clayton was King James' Version of "Revelation 12:12" and "Revelation 13:18".
24	* "Run to the Hills" is about various Native American massacres, with "Cree" being name-dropped. The videoclip features images from various films.
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26	!''Piece of Mind''
27	* The quote at the back of the album is taken from [[Literature/TheBible Revelation 21:4]].
28	* "Where Eagles Dare" is inspired in [[Film/WhereEaglesDare the eponymous film]] and book.
29	* "Revelations" includes references to the British hymn, the writer G. K. Chesterton, and Creator/AleisterCrowley.
30	* "Flight of Icarus", towards Literature/TheMetamorphoses.
31	* "The Trooper" is about the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Creator/AlfredLordTennyson, which is in turn about the UsefulNotes/CrimeanWar and the music video has some archive footage from ''Film/TheChargeOfTheLightBrigade1936''.
32	* "Quest for Fire" is inspired by [[Film/QuestForFire the eponymous film]] by Creator/JeanJacquesAnnaud.
33	* "Still Life" is inspired by Ramsey Campbell's "The Inhabitant of The Lake".
34	** Nicko's hidden backwards rant in the beginning of the song is taken from the satirical album "The Collected Broadcasts of Idi Amin" by Bird and Alan Coren.
35	* "Sun and Steel" is about legendary Japanese Swordsman UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi. Several passages of the song also references Musashi's book ''A Book of Five Rings''.
36	* "To Tame a Land", towards Literature/{{Dune}}. It's a shame Frank Herbert wasn't quite so accommodating regarding Literature/{{Dune}} - the song had to be renamed ''To Tame a Land''. This lack of accomodation was "mentioned" by Bruce in the 1983 World Piece Tour:
37	--> ''Next song is all about a gentleman who wrote a science-fiction book called ''Dune''(...). He's an American called Mr. Frank Herbert, this particular gentleman, alright? [[TakeThat And Mr. Herbert, as it turns out, is a bit of a]] [[CountryMatters cunt]] [[TakeThat actually]], because he... among other things he said that if we called this track that we wrote on the album "Dune", that he'd sue us and stop the album coming out, and all kinds of very unpleasant things... So we had to re-title the track which is on the new album, and we had to call it "To Tame a Land".''
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39	!''Powerslave''
40	* The cover of the album has two paintings disguised as hieroglyphs, "Franchise/IndianaJones was here in 1941" and "WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse".
41	* "Aces High" is inspired by the Battle of Britain, the first battle fought in the air in its entirety. Despite the bands tendency to base songs off of cult films, the highly acclaimed movie of the same name about wartime pilots and starring Creator/MalcolmMcDowell was actually set during World War I.
42	** The live versions from both ''Live After Death'' and ''Flight 666'' and the video of the song start with Winston Churchill's WWII speech.
43	--> "We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!"
44	* "2 Minutes to Midnight" is inspired by the Doomsday Clock.
45	* "The Duelists" is inspired by Creator/RidleyScott's [[Film/TheDuelists movie of the same name.]]
46	* "Back in the Village", towards ''Series/{{The Prisoner\|1967}}''.
47	* "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is inspired by Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge's [[Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner poem of the same name]]. Two passages from excerpts 1815-16 are quoted directly in the song.
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49	!''Somewhere in Time''
50	* The cover art of the album references a lot of Maiden's stuff (already covered in the Main page), and a bunch of other science fiction:
51	** There's a [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]] near the Rainbow Club billboard.
52	** "Creator/IsaacAsimov's {{Franchise/Foundation}}"
53	** "West Ham 7 Arsenal 3" is a football/soccer match score. Steve Harris is a confessed fan of West Ham United, and the team itself is also known as "The Irons". Another reference is "Upton Park", their stadium.
54	** The Creator/PhilipKDick cinema is playing ''Film/BladeRunner''. Also, right out of the pyramids, there's Tyrell Corp.
55	** "Bradbury Hotels International" is a reference to Creator/RayBradbury.
56	** Under the billboard of Tehe's Bar there's ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''.
57	* The B-side of the "Wasted Years" single, "The Sheriff of Huddersfield", contains the line [[Film/TheBluesBrothers "We're on a mission from Rob"]].
58	* "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" takes its title from the book by the same title by Robert Heinlein. It's also based on the Alan Sillitoe short story.
59	* "Stranger in a Strange Land" takes its name from (but it's not inspired by) Creator/RobertAHeinlein's eponymous work.
60	** The cover-art of the single has Eddie appearing as the "Man with No Name", with hints from [[Film/BladeRunner Deckard]].
61	* "Alexander the Great" talks about [[UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat the eponymous conqueror]].
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63	!''Seventh Son of a Seventh Son''
64	* The album is based on Orson Scott Card's book ''[[Literature/TheTalesOfAlvinMaker Seventh Son]]''.
65	* "Moonchild" references Creator/AleisterCrowley's works "Liber Samekh".
66	* "The Evil That Men Do" takes its title from a quote from [[ShoutOutToShakespeare Shakespeare]]'s "Julius Caesar". Bruce cites the quote in the ''Rock in Rio'' version of the song.
67	--> ''"The evil that men do lives on after them, But the good is oft interred with their bones".''
68	* "The Clairvoyant" is based on the death of Doris Stokes, a popular psychic. Being an recurring theme with prophets, Steve Harris wondered why if she could see the future, why could she not see her own death, hence the lyrics:
69	--> ''He could see your truth and see your lies.''
70	--> ''But for all his power, he couldn't forsee his own demise.''
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72	!''No Prayer for the Dying''
73	* "Run Silent Run Deep" is inspired by the [[Film/RunSilentRunDeep movie of the same name]].
74	* "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter" is loosely based on the poem "To Coy His Mistress".
75	* "Hooks in You" has the line "stone cold sober" from the song "Cold Sweat" by Music/ThinLizzy.
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77	!''Fear of the Dark''
78	* "The Fugitive" is inspired by [[Series/TheFugitive the eponymous television series]].
79	* In the same vein as "Stranger...", "Childhood's End" takes it's name from (but it's not inspired by) Creator/ArthurCClarke's book of the same name.
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81	!''The X Factor''
82	* "Sign of the Cross", towards ''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose'' by Creator/UmbertoEco.
83	* "Lord of the Flies" is based on William Golding's [[Literature/LordOfTheFlies novel of the same name]].
84	* "Man on the Edge", towards ''Film/FallingDown''. The movie's even name-dropped in the chorus.
85	* "The Edge of Darkness", towards Creator/JosephConrad's ''Heart of Darkness'', which in turn inspired ''Film/ApocalypseNow''.
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87	!''Virtual XI''
88	* "When Two Worlds Collide" is based on Philip Wylie's novel ''Literature/WhenWorldsCollide''.
89	* "The Clansman" is inspired by ''Film/{{Braveheart}}''.
90	* "Como Estais Amigos" talks about UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar.
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92	!''Brave New World''
93	* "The Wicker Man" has [[Film/TheWickerMan1973 an obvious inspiration]], though not as much as Bruce's eponymous song from his solo career which downright tells the story of the movie.
94	** The ''Rock in Rio'' version of the song starts with Jerry Goldsmith's "Arthur’s Farewell", from the film ''Film/FirstKnight''.
95	* Both the album and the eponymous song are inspired by [[Literature/BraveNewWorld the book of the same name]] by Creator/AldousHuxley.
96	* "Out of the Silent Planet" was primarily influenced by ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'', while it got named after [[Literature/OutOfTheSilentPlanet the eponymous science fiction novel]].
97	* While it was never stated by the band itself, "The Mercenary" has so many coincidences with ''Film/{{Predator}}'' that it's hard not to think of it as an homage.
98	* "The Nomad" is one to ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia''.
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100	!''Dance of Death''
101	* "Montsegur" is about the fall of the Cathar stronghold of the same name, which fell during the Albigensian Crusade in 1244.
102	* "Dance of Death" was inspired by the final scene of Ingmar Bergman's ''Film/TheSeventhSeal''.
103	* "Paschendale" is about the Battle of Passchendaele, which took place during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
104	** In live performances (such as ''Death on the Road''), there's a spoken introduction with a passage from Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth" before the song.
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106	!''A Matter of Life and Death''
107	* "Different World" is stated to be an homage to Music/ThinLizzy, due to the low sounding melodies sung by Bruce, reminiscent of those Phil Lynott would sing.
108	* "Brighter than a Thousand Suns" is about [[UsefulNotes/PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower The Manhattan Project]].
109	* "The Longest Day" is about [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Allied landings at Normandy on D-Day]] and the title is taken from [[Film/TheLongestDay the eponymous film]] .
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111	!''The Final Frontier''
112	* "Isle of Avalon" takes some inspiration from Myth/ArthurianLegend.
113	* Although the song itself is not an reference, "The Man Who Would Be King" takes its title from the Creator/RudyardKipling short story and [[Film/TheManWhoWouldBeKing the film by the same name]].
114	* "When the Wild Wind Blows" is based off the darkly comedic (and later on just dark) graphic novel ''ComicBook/WhenTheWindBlows''.
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116	!''The Book of Souls''
117	* The video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F7A24f6gNc Speed of Light]]" has shout outs to several video games, namely VideoGame/DonkeyKong, VideoGame/{{Contra}}, VideoGame/MortalKombat1992, and VideoGame/{{Halo}}.
118	* "Death or Glory" talks about the RedBaron, the most famous pilot from UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
119	* "The Red and the Black" is based on the eponymous book.
120	* "Empire of the Clouds" is based on the R101 Airship disaster.

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