Just sixteen, a pickup truck, out of money, out of luck.
I've got nowhere to call my own, hit the gas, and here I go.

I'm running free yeah, I'm running free.
I'm running free yeah, Oh I'm running free.

Spent the night in an L. A. jail, and listened to the sirens wail.
They ain't got a thing on me, I'm running wild, I'm running free.

I'm running free yeah, I'm running free.
I'm running free yeah, Oh I'm running free.

Puller here at the Bottle Top, whiskey, dancing, disco hop.
Now all the boys are after me, and that's the way it's gonna be.

I'm running free yeah, I'm running free.
I'm running free yeah, Oh I'm running free.
				

So you think you can own me, well you'd better just think again
You'd better watch your steps now, woman, cause I ain't like those other men
There's something burning inside me that makes me want to be free
And when I get these feelings honey, you better keep away from me

There's things in life now, baby, that I know I've got to do
And I need your love now, baby, to help me see it through
So you think you can own me, well you'd better just think again
You'd better watch your steps now, woman, cause I ain't like those other men

SOLO

So you think you can own me, well you'd better just think again
You'd better watch your steps now, woman, cause I ain't like those other men
There's something burning inside me that makes me want to be free
And when I get these feelings honey, you better keep away from me
				

Out of the route came a warhorse of steel. 
I've never killed a woman before, but I know how it feels. 

I know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw. 
So now I've got to look for sanctuary from the law. 
So give me sanctuary from the law and I'll be alright. 
Just give me sanctuary from the law and love me tonight, tonight. 

I met up with a stranger last night to keep me alive. 
He spends all his money on gambling and guns to survive. 

I can laugh at the wind, I can howl at the rain. 
Down in the Canyon or out in the plain. 
				

Walk away!

Look out now, baby won't you take me away,
Sittin' here its gonna be a new day.
Gotta sing my song and I can't go wrong,
Gotta keep on roaming, gotta sing my song.

What you feeling when you hold me tight?
I'm gonna cuddle up with you tonight, gonna get you feeling so secure.
listen child don't you see there's a cure?
Anywhere got to get you away, feels so good think it's gonna be a new day.
I'm gonna get my song till I can't go on,
I'm gonna keep on roaming gonna sing my song.

I want you to sing it, sing it, sing it, sing it along.
I want you to sing it, sing it, sing it, sing it along.
				

....What ho sed de ting! 

How you doing, you lot out there? Gosh! You, I guess you are now the proud owners of the
very first little box set of the re-released singles from Iron Maiden. Well, I've got to say this,
welcome to Not a lot of people know that, part 1. Cause here, I'm about to tell you a few
stories now and in the next nine releases of this here box sets, over the period of the next ten
weeks. Now look here, first of all, my goodness, it's ten years almost to the day...ooh little
chickadees out there, oh you've got your grubby little hands on Running Free, Burning
Ambition, oh gosh! The very first single! Sanctuary, Drifter, and I've Got The Fire, the
second singles..gosh! The first one was released, as I said, almost ten years to the very day
on February 8, 1980. 

Eh, I'll tell you something, right? You know 'Arry... 'Arry Harris, right, he had a band called
Gypsy's Kiss ....disgusting...and you know what that rhymes with doncha? Well if you don't,
I'm not gonna tell ya anyway so there. He had this song called Burning Ambition, which I
suppose was a real drive for 'Arry then because he was, you know, full of ambition to get his
music out and play it for people, and he had this song. And he was in this band Gypsies Kiss,
well they were, cause they couldn't handle this song. And they turned around and said "'Arry
you know look at all these chord changes and time changes", as he's famous for, and I
should know...come on, give us a break. So, he took the song... the band and they're going,
"come on 'Arry, gypsies kiss off will ya, I can't play that!" And he said, "allright, I've had
enough of this then, I'm gonna go find some people that can, so kiss you and all". So anyway
that's what he did. Not kiss them, no, he did the other thing, you know, what it rhymes with...
mm off. I'll say it, he pissed off, so there you go. Whatever. Now he went out and he formed
a band, and um..uuh, Burning Ambition was actually recorded late in 1979 and originally
featured the original drummer in fact of..in fact I think there was one guy before him...but
Doug Sampson was on drums in those days. Dave double tracked on guitars... you know, he
double tracked and all..he doesn't have to though, does he? You know what I'm saying. 

Well, ok, Running Free as well was also the first art work from Riggsy...RIGGSY! I tell
people I'm actually from another planet you know cause I'm a bit off the wall, well I'll tell you
this guy OWNS the other planet, my goodness! No god bless him, he's a diamond guy I love
him, what an artist! He first brought Eddie into the first sleeve on this the Running Free
single, and Eddie if you remember rightly was standing in the shadows, you never really saw
him. But uh, oh my goodness, he brought him out didn't he, on the first album all in his glory
and splendour, Eddie comes out and goes "yeeeeh I'm here," so watch out folks. Well there,
what can you say about it, Running Free, it's a song the band still to this day plays, it's one
of the truly great Iron Maiden songs, I mean not only just because it was their first single,
but...what a crack. 

And now then, well we've gone through that, Burning Ambition we talked about, on the
other side we got Sanctuary...on the other single rather, we've got Sanctuary, Drifter live,
and I've Got The Fire, an old Montrose song. Well this... this was the first top-30 entry
actually, it made number 29 and uh, oh you know the boys were really happy it was released
23rd of May 1980 god dearie me, it was a couple within a few months of one another... You
lucky boys and girls! Woah, as I said you've got one every week for ten weeks coming out
here...ah, oh well. This was recorded by the way...the live Drifter and I've Got The Fire,
was recorded in the Marquee in April 1980. And that was a good year, I've got a good drop
of wine at home made in 1980, yeah still got half a bottle left, it's really good. I've Got The
Fire, it's an old Montrose song as I said, and Steve liked it so he recorded it live, and it used
to be a set opener for the band in those days, but on the back of that they kind of got into the
deal of like not recording Iron Maiden songs on the b's, this was when the beginnings when
b-sides were other people's songs that the band decided to play. 

Anyway around this time, they uh, they didn't get top of the pops ...rotten buggers...but we
all know why, it's the bleedin BBC isn't it? Well you know we'll work out some sort of
abbreviation for that later on...but anyway they couldn't get on because there was some sort
of reaction, strikes and all that good stuff, you know what the BBC usually like to do... 

You! Move the broom!
Well, is he a labourer? No he f'king well ain't!
Well that's it, we're going on strike. Put your teacups up to your
face lads, lets go out to the canteen and have another drink... 
You know, whatever...Well what can you say, what can you say, strikes all around. So the
boys didn't get to play top of the pops -- that's no biggie, you know they never play the band
anyway do they? poxy BBC... 
Anyway funnily enough, around this time it the very first gig I ever did with Iron Maiden, no
not actually playing with them like as a full band. I played in a band called McKitty, and
these guys in McKitty...a guy called Donnovan McKitty himself, we did a gig in Belgium, and
it was in fact... not a lot of people know this...but it was in fact Maiden's very first European
gig, how about that, and I was there! So there! Hmm! Stuff that up your f'king pipe and
smoke it! Right! So there you go. I was really privileged to be there, and that's when I really
first met the band, we got on so well and we had such a riot....what can I say? 

Anyway, you remember the Sanctuary sleeve, you lot? Yeah...Maggie Thatcher...weeelll,
can you believe it, she was there, you know what she was trying to do...stupid cow... she
was trying to pull down an Iron Maiden poster off the wall. Well, what can you say about
that? Not a lot, believe me! She was...I dunno why they called her the iron maiden, do you?
Nothing like this....I know why! Maybe because she's like Eddie! Hahahaha! 

Listen! By the way I've got to tell you this little story real quick, allright, I'm running out of
time on this one but nevertheless... You remember Eddie, right? Course you remember
Eddie! Well this is the origin of Eddie, right. The band used to have this backdrop which
featured this theatrical mask and it sort of spat out all this red die and smoke and all that
gobby stuff and here's poor old Clive sitting under it getting gobbed on every night... "Oy!
what's all this?!", he's going, "What's all this red st...you know, this shit coming over my head,
I've had enough of that", eh....anything you could find, anything they could find they'd sling in
it. Anyway, they called him Eddie the Head, see, and it's after an old east-end joke that goes
as follows: 

Eddie was very unfortunate, he was born without a body. So
nevertheless, his parents loved him dearly and took him home and
placed him on the mantelpiece one day. Well, his family gave him
lots of love and attention and he always got loads of presents on
his birthday kind of...blowing things, and hats and all that kind of
stuff, wow... Anyway one year he was about 16, and the hospital
phoned up Eddie's parents and they said to them, "look, due to
modern technology and all those good things that we can do with
this stuff nowdays, we are now able to build Eddie a body." So,
the parents were soooo excited, they couldn't believe it, and they
couldn't wait to tell Eddie, I mean this is it, Eddie's gonna have a
body! Weeeha! However, as it was close to his birthday, they
decided to tell the doctors to go ahead and build his body, and
then they would surprise him, you know they weren't far away
from his birthday... well, a good birthday present, so anyway... A
few weeks later the big day arrived, yes, Eddie's birthday. So his
parents go up to him, and walked up to the mantelpiece and
"Hello Eddie, how you doin? This year is gonna to be the best
birthday yet! Have we got something for you, such a wonderful
present! And his mum's going "Oh goodness Eddie we're so
pleased!" And Eddie's going, "Oh no!" said Eddie, "Not another
fucking hat!" 

Hahahahaha! Oh, I think it's funny! Shit, it is! It's pretty good isn't it! Anyway, after
this...anyway, Derek came up with the creature Eddie and the body and that on the record
covers, and the name was just carried over and the rest is history isn't it? And Eddie's out
there, yet he's got to have a bit of nookie before long, that's all I can say. 
				

Beehive hairdo, 45 on the hip
Patrolwoman Saunders, don't you give her no whip
Took me to the station for a breathtest
then back to the bedroom for some house-arrest

CHORUS:
Women in uniform, sometimes they look so cold
Women in uniform, but, Oh! They feel so warm

Coming back to London on a 747
Stewardess made me feel like I'm in heaven
Looking up the aisle to see what I could see
She leaned over said; Give it to me

White apron, brown leather shoes
The nurse at the clinic left my heart all bruised
Gave me a massage, sprained my right
Now she takes my temperature every night

REPEAT CHORUS

Women in uniform, Women in uniform
Women in uniform, Women in uniform

Commando raid on the Lebanese border
Sergeant Anita, she gives the order
Khaki jacket and a love gun
Baby, I surrender, let's have some fun

REPEAT CHORUS

SOLO

REPEAT CHORUS

Women in uniform, Women in uniform
Women in uniform, Women in uniform

Women in uniform, Khaki, white and blue
Women in uniform, coming after you
Women, women, Women in uniform
Women, women, Women in uniform

REPEAT CHORUS (fading away)
				

The Vikings are coming
You'd better get ready for we're having a fight
The longboats are coming
It's looking like their ? in the dead of the night

Muster the men from all the villages
You'd better get ready to fight with your enemies

Beacons are burning
I'm giving the word to get ready to fight
The battle is nearing
You'd better get ready to fight for your lives

The Norsemen are coming
The Norsemen are coming
The warnings are given
The Norsemen are coming

Raping and pillaging
Robbing and looting the land

Viking raiders from afar
				

I've been looking so long for you now you won't get away from my grasp
. You've been living so long in hiding in hiding behind that false mask.
And you know and I know that you ain't got long now to last.
Your looks and your feelings are just the remains of your past.

You're standing in the wings, there you wait for the curtain to fall.
Knowing the terror and holding you have on us all.
Yeah, I know that you're gonna scratch me, maim me and maul.
You know I'm helpless from your mesmerising cat call.

Keep your distance, walk away, don't take his bait.
Don't you stray, don't fade away.
Watch your step, he's out to get you, come what may.
Don't you stray, from the narrow way.

I'm running and hiding in my dreams you're always there.
You're the Phantom of the Opera, you're the devil, you're just out to scare.
You damaged my mind and my soul it just floats through the air.
Haunt me, you taunt me, you torture me back at your lair.
				

She lays in bed at night and that is when I make my call
But when she stares at me she can't see nothing at all
Because you see I can't take no shape or form
It's been three long years since I've been gone
I can't get used to purgatory, you know it really makes me cry
I'll never know the reason why I had to go
I'm crying, oh, oh, oh, deep inside me
Oh, oh, oh, can't you see me? Ah, can't you see me?
I'm looking forward to her spirit coming over to me
I feel tempted to bring her over to see
just what it's like to be hanging on the other side
I feel so lonely, it's a long time since I died
I try to show her that she's never gonna be alone
Because my spirit is imprisoned in the twilight zone
I'm crying, oh, oh, oh, deep inside me
Oh, oh, oh, can't you see me? Ah, can't you see me?
				

I was born into a scene of angriness and greed, and dominance and persecution.
My mother was a queen, my dad I've never seen, I was never meant to be.
And now I spend my time looking all around,
For a man that's nowhere to be found.
Until I find him I'm never gonna stop searching,
I'm gonna find my man, gonna travel around.

'Cos I'm a wrathchild, well I'm a wrathchild.
Yeah I'm a wrathchild. I'm coming to get you, oh yeah.

Say it doesn't matter ain't nothin' gonna alter the course of my destination.
I know I've got to find some serious piece of mind, or I know I'll go crazy.
But now I spend my time looking all around,
For a man that's nowhere to be found.
Until I find him I'm never gonna stop searching,
I'm gonna find my man, gonna travel around.

'Cos I'm a wrathchild, well I'm a wrathchild.
Yeah I'm a wrathchild. I'm coming to get you, oh yeah.
				

....What ho hahahaha! 

Well, welcome once again to the Not a lot of people know that, part II. Or in other words,
Nick's verbal diarrhoea for the second time running. You lucky lot! Now you're out there
holding in your sweaty palms and all them grubby little fingers and hands, ooh the second
re-released singles box set from Iron Maiden, the second weeks now we're running, now
we're onto a cruise. Women In Uniform! You've just listened to it! Invasion! You've just
listened to it! Phantom Of The Opera! You've just listened to it! Ohh, and Twilight Zone
and Wrathchild, both 'Arry Harris..bomber Harris compositions of the most outstandingly
stunning performances! Marvellous! 

Well, look here! Women In Uniform, mmmmmm. Now then 'Arry, you slipped up....listen
don't tell him but you know it wasn't a song by 'Arry, see, but he knows that doesn't he.
Wot? Anyway, Women In Uniform, written by the Macainah brothers... I think I
pronounced that right lads... if you're listening, well too f'king bad if I ain't, I'm very sorry but
anyway, nevertheless. Aussie band, Skyhooks I believe they were called, the name of the
band, first originally recorded this Women In Uniform. The boys decided to do it, and
released this single 27th of October 1980. And uh, well, great song, you know... doo doo ah
dee dee... good song, and all that. And as I say, you've got Invasion and Phantom Of The
Opera live. My goodness, aren't you lucky people... Gosh I don't even have this stuff at
home. You know what, I tell ya, one of the reasons that we're releasing all these bits and
pieces, not only to celebrate ten years with such a great company as EMI, but not a lot of us
have got a complete set of the singles and all that stuff so it's really so we can get the old
collection going. Yeah, so anyway, nevertheless! 

Allright, now Mike Kenny made his debut in the video as Eddie I do believe, on the very first
promo video. Well, I say the first promo,.. the Invasion video, was the first rock promo, one
of the first rock promos by a British rock band. I suppose you think Queen's Bohemian
Rhapsody was close to that, you know, I think they were probably the very first. But it was
quite visionary if you think of the importance of videos now, you get it...vision...quite
visi....yeah, allright ok, cut the crap and get on with it. So there you go, first song the band's
ever released in a-side is by somebody else, and uh yeah, that's cool. And by the way,
Invasion was part of the band's you know the stage set that the boys used to use in the late
70's, and originally it was released on the Soundhouse Tapes. Oh, we all know about the
Soundhouse Tapes...take that if you don't! wooh, I'll give you ........I wanna hit you so
hard.... Anyway! Invasion was on the Soundhouse Tapes, and Steve and the guys decided
to record a proper studio version of this song, so that's why that was re-done basically. 
And Phantom was recorded at the Marquee in July 1980, oh yes you lucky Maidenettes
and Maiden guys and all that out there! Four dates in one week, to wind up their summer
UK tour in 1980, can you remember that? What a great time! Did Top Of The Pops live,
again, by the way, and the guys did the sound check...this is, not a lot of people know
this....and the did the sound check in the afternoon. And a minute before the performance the
sound monitor engineer turned around and says "I'm not gonna have this...you're too loud,
we're gonna turn it down". And they messed around with all the twiddly knobs and
everything, on the desk, ON THE DESK!!! right? And it totally poxed it all up. So the boys
vowed never to play..um... I said Top Of The Pops, didn't I. Well you know that company
on the last thing I was trying to think of an abbreviation for, right? Well you know what I'm
talking about right? Well it's the Bleeding Bojack Company, right, that's what it is, and that's
what they done to 'em so it's on the videos now and that's it. Boom. 

So you lucky lot. Oooh, Twilight Zone and Wrathchild, both as I said, 'Arry Harris
compositions... released the 2nd of March 1981, got to chart position 31. Not bad, eh! Oh
by the way, the Women In Uniform and Invasion and that got to 35, I think I forgot to
mention that. If I did mention it, too f'king bad, allright. So, Twilight Zone and Wrathchild,
that was recorded as part of a Killers session at the turn of '80 and '81. Now Martin, he
actually couldn't be there at this particular session, so the boys produced Twilight Zone
themselves. Quite clever when you think about it, aren't they, playing and producing it at the
same time. Amazing! Anyway, hahaha, so they decided to release this Twilight Zone on the
Killer's album. And so the boys and Rod sent a telex over to Japan, see, and they explained
all the details of the song. So the Japanese, they're a funny lot aren't they, they took it
literally, and the song was printed as Details Of Twilight Zone. My goodness, that's a
cracker isn't it? Hah! 

By the way, boys and girls, if you know your trivia. Mr. H. Adrian Smith joined the band in
that particular time, didn't he? Yeah, now Twilight Zone, this happened to be Adrian's first
single with the band. Now not a lot of people would remember that, but then again, probably
they would, so I'll stuff it in the pipe and smoke it. H joined the band in September 1980,
and as you know, on the back of this as it's a double a-side, it was Wrathchild, and Adrian
had to learn Wrathchild as part of his audition, you know. He also had to show the boys
that he could kick a football and down a pint of beer in five seconds. He managed both of
them no problem, now Wrathchild he had to do the business. Well all I can say is this... he
must have done a f'king good job didn't he, eh? Cause he's steaming and he's right there,
see? So, not a lot of people knew that either. So anyway, that's H's audition out of the way,
and he was always happening and he went out on the tour in 1980 and 1981 and all this.
And, well, there you go. As it happens, as I said, the session that they did with Twilight
Zone and Wrathchild came out so well that they released it as a double a-side... By the
way, as we're talking about musicians, I've got a joke for ya. I'm not gonna to like it very
much, but you might, allright, so here it is: 

What do you call somebody that hangs around with musicians?
Awwww no, not that one! Surely! Allright, a bloody drummer! 

Allright, now I've said it and all the boys are at me, I've got that one out of the way. Thanks a
lot Rod, hmmm. There you go. Oh by the way, I was in a band called Trust around that
period of time, and in fact, the boys, we came out with Iron Maiden on their Killers tour of
Great Britain. And not a lot of people know that either. But uh, we had a great time, we did
about three and a half weeks with the band, and we had a serious... it was great! Well, what
can I say? Not a lot anymore, I think I've just about covered all that one. Um, so I'm going
down the pub to have a beer. Tada!
				

Thinking of an age old dream,
Places I have never seen
Fantasies lived times before,
I split my brain, melt through the floor
Over clouds my mind will fly,
Forever now I can't think why
My body tries to leave my soul,
Or is it me I just don't know
Memories rising from the past,
The future's shadow overcast
Something's clutching at my head,
Through the darkness I'll be led
Oh another time, another place,
Oh another smile on another face
When you see me floating up beside you,
You get the feeling that all my love's inside of you
(Solo: Dave Murray)

Please take me away, take me away, so far away
Please take me away, take me away, so far away
Please take me away, take me away, so far away

Thinking of an age old dream,
Places I have never seen
Fantasies lived times before,
I split my brain, melt through the floor

Over clouds my mind will fly,
Forever now I can't think why
My body tries to leave my soul,
Or is it me, I just don't know
Memories rising from the past,
The future's shadow overcast
Something's clutching at my head,
Through the darkness I'll be led

Oh another time, another place,
Oh another smile on another face
When you see me walking up beside you,
You get the feeling that all my love's inside of you

Please take me away, take me away, so far away
Please take me away, take me away, so far away
Please take me away, take me away, so far away
				

[Instrumental]
				

Just sixteen a pickup truck,
Out of money out of luck
I've got nowhere to call my own,
Hit the gas and here I go
Chorus:

I'm running free yeah, I'm running free
I'm running free yeah, Oh I'm running free

Spent the night in an L. A. jail
And listened to the sirens wail
They ain't got a thing on me,
I'm running wild I'm running free

Chorus

Pulled her at the Bottle Top,
Whiskey dancing disco hop
Now all the boys are after me
And that's the way it's gonna be

Chorus
				

Unchain the colours before my eyes,
Yesterday's sorrows tomorrow's white lies
Scan the horizon the clouds take me higher,
I shall return from out of fire
Tears for remembrance and tears for joy,
Tears for somebody and this lonely boy
Out in the madness the all seeing eye
Flickers above us to light up the sky
(Solo: Dave Murray)
(Solo: Dennis Stratton)
Unchain the colours before my eyes,
Yesterday's sorrows tomorrow's white lies
Scan the horizon the clouds take me higher,
I shall return from out of fire
				

You walk through the subway, his eyes burn a hole in your back
A footstep behind you, he lunges prepared for attack
Scream for mercy, he laughs as he's watching you bleed
Killer behind you, his blood lust defies all his needs
My innocent victims are slaughtered with wrath and despise
The mocking religion of hatred that burns in the night
I have no one, I'm bound to destroy all this greed
A voice inside me compelling to satisfy me
I can see what a knife's meant to be
And you'll never know how I came to foresee, see, see
(Solo: Dave Murray)
(Solo: Adrian Smith)
My faith in believing is stronger than lifelines and ties
With the glimmer of metal, my moment is ready to strike
Death call arises, a scream breaks the still of the night
Another tomorrow, remember to walk in the light
I have found you, and now there is no place to run
Excitement shakes me, oh God help me what have I done?
Ooh yeah, I've done it again!
You walk through the subway, my eyes burn a hole in your back
A footstep behind you, he lunges prepared for attack
Scream for mercy, he laughs as he's watching you bleed
Killer behind you, my blood lust defies all my needs
Oooh look out, I'm coming for you
Hahahahahah!
				

My life is so empty, nothing to live for
My mind is all confusion, 'cos I defied the law
When you weren't there to help me, I lost my mind and ran
I never had no trouble before this all began
My life is so empty, nothing to live for
My mind is all confusion, 'cos I defied the law
When you weren't there to help me, I lost my mind and ran
I never had no trouble before this all began
I'm running away, no where to go
I'm lost and tired and I just don't know. Yeah...
They say I killed a woman, they know it isn't true
They're just trying to frame me
and all because of you. Yeah...
(Solo: Dave Murray)
(Solo: Adrian Smith)
				

Hey Nicko, wake up the tape's rolling...

Ah! ok now, well! What you doing letting me go to sleep now? 
Yeah, ah! Did you say the tape's rolling? 
Well look here, I mustn't....I can't go to sleep in the studio....
time costs money don't it, you know what I mean. 
It's what she said last night... 
Hahahaha! Yes, she cleaned me out, she did, I tell ya. 
Don't tell the wife though...
be in you know proverbial shit creek without a paddle, 
or should I say without the old pussy. 
Ooh ooh! You know, no nookie for a year, watch out. 
Might not even have any nookie ever, cause she'll probably chop my head off. 
Hmmm, yeah, that's a bit... that's a thought...gotta watch out.

Anyway! Lucky you, welcome to "not alot of people knew that, 
or know that, or even still don't know it -- notes number three". 
Ding! Love it! Purgatory and Genghis Khan are in your proud possession. 
And you have probably just had an assortment of audible boosting out of those speakers right into your lug holes. 
And you've also got Killers, Innocent Exile, Remember Tomorrow and Running Free... 
Maiden Japan. Released 14th of September 1981, that little lot was... 
We'll get to that in a minute.

Anyway, Purgatory, eh, Genghis Khan...well the boys, didn't they...they had the only non-top-50 single ever? 
Where was I? Hmm. Anyway! Well that's enough of that. 
Uuuh, released the 15th of June, Purgatory and Genghis Khan were, or was, hmm. 
And it's just been released again, hasn't it? 
Cause you are the proud owner of it, and you're listening to me again... 
oh no, they say...oh no...ten sick toads to bail me out... oh no, it's Nicko...Ohhh! 
Well look here, it's a little bit of trivia for you on this one. I know that not alot of people know this, 
cause I even didn't know this, and I'll admit this....I did not know this, all right. 
I'll say it again, I did not know this. Purgatory was originally called Floating, hmm, 
and it was part of Iron Maiden's live show between '76 and '77, would you believe! 
It was originally played at a very much slower tempo than what is being played at on you know past excursions, 
so to speak. Well, Steve...he likes to play a little bit faster, he does, see...likes it oooh, 
and I like that too. And he decided.. he said to the band, "look, I like uh... you know... 
I like this song, you like it to don't ya?" 
They said "sure"...well they had to didn't they? 
And uh, Hahaha! So, anyway they rearranged it and beefed it up for the Killers album, 
and c'est la vie, or as it is, c'est quoi, or say what, there it is. Purgatory. 
As it happens, at the right tempo...boom! Love it! 
Cause Steve...you know, there's certain songs that are written... 
we'll get onto that later on, there's a little story I'll tell you about that too.

But uh, here you go, Genghis Khan... that was sort of a filling song, 
if you like. It was written on short notice... that's why it's a short song! 
Hahahah! Stupid idiot. Maiden discovered they were short of a song on the Killers album. 
So, they sat down and sort of went "here, let's think of something." 
And it was given a working title of Jenkin's Barn... god knows why, 
Genghis Khan...Jenkin's Barn...I suppose it rhymes, doesn't it? 
Anyway, I dunno, soppy sod...works in mysterious ways, this music business, don't it? 
Anyway, the sleeve for the Purgatory single was originally the Number Of The Beast album art work. 
And the band decided it was too good to keep for the... you know... too good to keep! 
It was best..it was too good so they wanted to keep it... (slaps himself) ...ooh, wake up! 
They wanted to keep it for the next album...cor, that hurt. 
Dave, what'd you do that for, man? 
Anyway... they wanted to keep it for the next album, cause it fitted perfectly with the old NOB. 
Well, now look, that's rephrase that...NOB being an abbreviation for Number Of The Beast. 
Now we'll get into that later on right so. Number Of The Beast, yes. 
And, it felt... you know... Steve had this song with him and.... "yeah... that's what we'll do, 
we'll keep this artwork for the album." 
So Derek did a new Eddie and he did the Eddie-devil sleeve for the single which you all know, 
which you're standing looking at, or sitting looking at, 
or lying on the floor or on top of your missus or she's on top of you, looking at it... 
I don't know what you're doing but but you're having it in your hand ain't ya? 
No, the sleeve, silly! The sleeve! Right! 
Now as I said, it didn't make the top... it didn't get over 50... it got chart position 52. 
As I said, where was I? It'd been up number one and all...ahhm, nevermind. 
Ah, hahaha, Jesus.

Anyway! Maiden Japan! What can you say about this? 
This actually was recorded on the band's very first Japanese tour. 
And uh, the actual Japanese version of this record was titled Heavy Metal Army 
and there was no equivalent words in the Japanese language for Maiden Japan. 
I would have thought they just should have said it "Maiden Japan" and called it that! 
Well nevertheless. This was the last Maiden release to feature Paul Di'Anno, as we know. 
What a great singer, he was with the band for quite a few years, many, you know, quite a number of years, 
a few years there. But, Paul went on to different pastures, 
green and blue and white and yellow, whatever they were. 
Um, but any... oh, by the way on the Japanese sleeve it says "pray roud". 
Hahaha, Jeez! Pray roud! It don't take a degree in English science to work that one out, does it? 
Eh? Does it? What do you mean what does it mean? 
PRAY ROUD! Right, that's enough of that. Anyway, by the way, Rod took all the photographs for this band... 
uh, for this single, the single you know, all the live shots uuh...for the Maiden Japan. 
And he went down, he went down the old duh duty free racket market, 
you know like "ooh aah, you give me money, ooh, think of me Rod-san, you can have this!" 
So anyway, he bought a Cannon camera on the cheap, as usual. 
And actually this is definitely where Ross got his inspiration from... 
I mean what can I say, Rod actually astounded the photo world with his prowess behind the lens. 
What a great...what a c... what a cracker! What a cracker. 
Anyway, by the way, one little point... this got to to number 43 on the charts, this Maiden Japan, 
released 14th of September 1981, and again if I said it already, to f'king bad.

Now. Oh yes, this is a joke for ya. 
If the answer to the question is "my cock robin", what's the question? 
"What's that... in my arse Batman!" Hahahahah!
				

White man came across the sea
Brought us pain and misery
Killed our tribes killed our creed
Took our game for his own need

We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for Cree
Oh will we ever be set free?

Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom a stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack

Run to the hills run for your lives
Run to the hills run for your lives

Soldier blue on the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whisky and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old

Run to the hills run for your lives
				

Cold as steel the darkness waits, it's hour will come
A cry of fear for the chosen worshipping the sun
Mother natures black revenge on those who waste her life
War babies in the garden of Eden shall turn our ashes to ice

CHORUS:
Sunrise is gone, freezing up the fires
Sunrise is gone, numbing all desires
Sunrise is gone, Sunrise is gone

Around the world the people stop with terror-stricken eyes
A shadow cast upon them all to crush them like a fly
In the icy rain and whiplashed seas there's nowhere left to run
The hammer blows of winter fall like a hurricane

REPEAT CHORUS

Around the world the nations wait
for some wise words from their leading light
You know it's not only madmen who listen to fools
"Is this the end" the millions cried
clutching their riches as they died
Those who survive must weather the storm

SOLO

Gone are the days when man looked down
They've taken away his sacred crown
To be so free, it took so long
It's not the journeys end, it's just begun
				

"Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the beast
with wrath, because he knows the time is short...
Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast
for it is a human number, its number is Six hundred and sixty
six."
Revelations ch. xiii v. 18

I left alone my mind was blank
I needed time to get the memories from my mind

What did I see can I believe that what I saw
that night was real and not just fantasy

Just what I saw in my old dreams were they
reflections of my warped mind staring back at me

Cos in my dreams it's always there the evil face that twists my mind
and brings me to despair

The night was black was no use holding back
Cos I just had to see was someone watching me
In the mist dark figures move and twist
was all this for real or some kind of hell
666 the Number of the Beast
Hell and fire was spawned to be released

Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised
as they start to cry hands held to the sky
In the night the fires burning bright
the ritual has begun Satan's work is done
666 the Number of the Beast
Sacrifice is going on tonight

This can't go on I must inform the law
Can this still be real or some crazy dream
but I feel drawn towards the evil chanting hordes
they seem to mesmerise me...can't avoid their eyes
666 the Number of the Beast
666 the one for you and me

I'm coming back I will return
And I'll possess your body and I'll make you burn
I have the fire I have the force
I have the power to make my evil take its course
				

Live

Unchain the colours before my eyes,
Yesterday's sorrows, tomorrow's white lies.
Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher,
I shall return from out of fire.

Tears for rememberance, and tears for joy,
Tears for somebody and this lonely boy.
Out in the madness, the all seeing eye,
Flickers above us, to light up the sky.

Unchain the colours before my eyes,
Yesterday's sorrows, tomorrow's white lies.
Scan the horizon, the clouds take me higher,
I shall return from out of fire.
				

I'm back, nyaaah! You thought you got away with it, didn't you?
But you didn't. No, not on your fourth little box set of
Run To The Hills, Total Eclipse, Number Of The Beast, and Remember Tomorrow live.
Aaah! Box number four. Do you like it so far?
What a great set of singles and all that good stuff ... original art work
and all that good stuff! Well, you are again the proud owner of number four,
Run To The Hills - Total Eclipse, released the 12th of February 1982.
And welcome once again to "Not a lot of...not a lot of people know that"
Hahah, oh dear, it's getting worse isn't it?
Well I have been in here for two or three days and they won't let me out!
No. They've left me stuck in this here studio and what can I do but mumble on and jumble on
and get the words back to front and front to back and all that good stuff.
Run To The Hills, chart position number seven, got there. Released 12th of February 1982,
If I said that already, too f'king bad! Ah, it was first released, as I said, whenever it was,
featuring Bruce on vocals. Now Bruce had joined the band in September '81,
and if you think about it it's almost a to the day a year after Adrian joined, September 1980.
Hmm. It was the band's first single, as it happens, to reach the top ten. Great!
Well, what can you say about that? Thank you guys and fans and girls...guys and girls...
all the people out there that bought that, I mean puuhh, got it to number seven.
And also it was one of the favourites of you guys the fans, when we play it it's great,
we start of and Bruce introduces the song and everyone's right there with us to know the words
and sing along like you do with a lot of our songs,
but I think that definitely because it was such a popular first top ten single as well such a popular song.
Also the video for Run To The Hills was .... the out takes.... remember the bit with the indians there,
and he's sitting on a penny farthing, you know and they're all getting shot with a bow and the guy
in the back with about six million arrows hanging out of his hat...
And the guy goes and gets scalped, and the geezer goes up behind the indian, oh no,
the indian goes up behind the guy right. Oh yeah, I got it right that time.
And he scalps him! And he pulls his hair off, and he's got a bloody toupe on his ...
he's got no hair! He's got a bald head! And the guy...whew, I think they're really great.
Well it's a Buster Keaton movie actually, but Buster they couldn't show him because he'd have got...
they'd have got copyright problems and all that. And it was also fun enough, a big MTV favourite.
Now, music television was released over in the United States before we got it on cable or satellite
which is now happening in England. And uh, this was in the days when they had some serious,
you know, they had some good taste, these guys. I mean, they were playing rock'n'roll and there was heavy metal.
Now, they're they're just like what's that, that other lot, the Bleedin Bojack Company!
You know, I'll find an abbreviation for the MTV mob, don't you worry have no friggin fear!
I shall get there! There you go, brilliant success, great story.

Now moving on to the other single in the set, you've got Number Of The Beast, haven't ya?
Well if you haven't there's a mistake. Get onto EMI and have a word......
slap'em around the back of the head like that for an opener, or a punch in the chops would be good.
You know. Number Of The Beast, 'Arry Harris composition again, Remember Tomorrow live,
'Arryis..'Arry 'Arrisssizzzz and Paul Duh..Duh..Duh..Di'Anno. Chart position 18 it got to,
that was released on 26th of April 1982. And it was off of the album of the same name,
Number - Of - The - Beast! Allright? Got that? Allright.
You know what I said earlier on as well, I think it was not a lot of people know that part three,
or it might have even been part two, I don't know.
I can't really remember, it was too many days ago...remember I told you they kept me in here for a few weeks...
few days. Um, it was released off of the album of the same name.
When they were recording the album, which was at Battery Studio in London,
Mr. Martin Birch had a car crash, and all the old equipment in the studio kept breaking down.
All this kind of things were going on. But after he got the bill presented to him,
through the accident that he'd had, his car....the damage bill was six hundred and sixty six quid, sixty six p!
No on my life, I am not pulling the dinger! I am telling ya, this is god's honest truth.
Well after the release of the album, the band were branded as satanists only to boot!
What a bunch of prats! I mean these people have no idea, and they've got their noses stuck up,
you know, probably up each others bum, you know. Or whatever.
Anyway, it's all about Steve having a nightmare, I mean he has them pretty often...
poor guy, you know, I mean I pity the wife... "god Steve, whats the matter!"
"uh oh uh oh uh oh uh! oh god, it's coming for me! oh, Eddie! Eddie! Get away!"
Hahahaha! Poor old low, never mind. Anyway...it's horrible though..no, you can't make fun of nightmares.
No they're not very nice things, but Steve had a nightmare what could actually happen 
if he got involved with all this sort of satanist stuff, and all that mumbo jumbo and all that mean gear.
Well you know, there you go. So basically that was the inspiration to the song, and out of that came NOTB,
and outta NOTB came the album. Hahahaha. Wonder what the wife looked like? Hahaha, Jesus.
I don't know, it's my sense of humour, you probably don't understand, I don't care anyway.

Anyway, by the way, the video was shot at the Newcastle city hall.
And Rod and the boys asked the local radio station,
or asked the ballroom dancers to come up and feature in the video.
They did. Puuh, pretty good isn't it? By the way, it was my uhh...I was still with Trust at that time,
and um, we actually did a ten or twelve date...I think it was ten dates of European tour with Maiden
on the Number Of The Beast tour when they were in Europe.
And, just..after this, a couple of months after this period of time on the tour,
the band did a Belgian TV show, and in fact this was my very very very first performance with Iron Maiden....
not a lot of people know that...and we played Number Of The Beast, I guess it was,
I think it was Killers and Run To The Hills, something like that.
I might have been wrong, and then again too bad if I am! So what you gonna do about it! 
Take that! So! Hahahaha, sorry Dave. Oh gosh, oh my microphone!

Anyway, ah! Remember Tomorrow. Well, this was recorded in Italy...well you can remember tomorrow if you like,
I can't even remember yesterday or even today, so it's up to you.
Hahaha. Heh. Anyway, Remember Tomorrow was recorded in Italy during Bruce's very first live dates with Maiden.
And they went out there to do some gigs with Bruce and break him in, so to speak.
He fell.. he fell into a vat of starch the night before. Hahahaha! Oh god!
And he did a few dates before the small U.K. tour at the end of 1981, and that's uh,
that's where Remember Tomorrow was recorded. That's why hence it's Remember Tomorrow live.
And I say, it got to chart position 18, released 26th of April. Good stuff!
Anyway, by the way I've gotta go, so look, if I don't see you in the spring
which ain't too far away right, I'll see you in a mattress! Hahahahaha! Toodle-do! Bye.
				

As the sun breaks, above the ground,
An old man stands on the hill,
As the ground warms, to the first rays of light
A birdsong shatters the still.

His eyes are ablaze,
See the madman in his gaze.

Fly, on your way, like an eagle,
Fly as high as the sun,
On your way, like an eagle,
Fly and touch the sun.

Now the crowd breaks and a young boy appears
Looks the old man in the eye
As he spreads his wings and shouts at the crowd
In the name of God my father I fly.

His eyes seem so glazed
As he flies on the wings of a dream,
Now he knows his father betrayed
Now his wings turn to ashes to ashes his grave.

Fly, on your way, like an eagle,
Fly as high as the sun,

On your way, like an eagle,
Fly as high as the sun.
				

If you're looking for someone that you can keep
then, baby, pass me by
And if you wanted something that's twenty years deep
Baby, don't even try
And if you wanted someone to take your soul
I'll lift you up little bit higher

I've got the fire
I've got the fire

SOLO

So you think I'm skinny, don't you sell me cheap
I'm as wide as a country-mile
Some like it wide, I like it deep
Guess which one is my style
So you think you can beat me by my own game
Maybe I call you a liar

I've got the fire
I've got the fire
				

You'll take my life but I'll take yours too
You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through
So when you're waiting for the next attack
You'd better stand there's no turning back.

The bugle sounds and the charge begins
But on this battlefield no one wins
The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath
As I plunge on into certain death.

The horse he sweats with fear we break to run
The mighty roar of the Russian guns
And as we race towards the human wall
The screams of pain as my comrades fall

We hurdle bodies that lay on the ground
And the Russians fire another round
We get so near yet so far away
We won't live to fight another day.

We get so close near enough to fight
When a Russian gets me in his sights
He pulls the trigger and I feel the blow
A burst of rounds take my horse below.

And as I lay there gazing at the sky
My body's numb and my throat is dry
And as I lay forgotten and alone
Without a tear I draw my parting groan
				

Who would be a poor man  a beggerman, a thief
if he had a rich man in his hand
Who would steal the candy from a laughing baby's mouth
if he could take it from the money man

Cross-eyed Mary goes jumping in again
She signs no contract but she always plays the game
She dines in Hampstead village on expense accounted gruel
and the jack knife barber drops her off at school

Laughing in the playground gets no kicks from little boys
would rather make it with a letching gray
Or maybe her attention is drawn by Aqualung
who watches through the railings as they play

Cross-eyed Mary finds it hard to get along.
She's a poor man's rich girl and she'll do it for a song
She's a rich man's stealer but her favour's good and strong
She's the Robin Hood of Highgate helps the poor man get along
				

What ho.... sed de ting!

Welcome to "not alot of people know that, part 5." Yes, you lot out there, ah you're so
lucky! How can you be getting so lucky, my God! Flight of Icarus in those grubby dirty by
now horribly sticky little fingers and hands and grubby palms, and oh what else is grubby, I
don't know. Flight Of Icarus, I've Got The Fire! Wooo, I have right now thinking about
this, oh my goodness the memories for this, my very first exotic jaunt over to the island of
Jersey, followed by a swift little airplane ride 3000 kilometres due...east of ah...well no, no,
got that wrong, due west of Watford. My goodness, I go the wrong way and get to bleedin
Russia, it'd be all over. Yes, due west of Watford, 3000 odd bloody miles -- forget this
kilometre stuff, what do you think you are, bleedin France? No thanks very much, I'm right
here! 

Anyway, Flight of Icarus, doo doo doo! Flight Of Icarus, my first single, released the 11th
of April 1983, chart position number eleven...da de de da! Didn't quite get to number ten,
did it? Anyway, my first record with the band...I starred in the video! Did you see that? Did
you see that handsome geezer with the blue chops? Wasn't half cold out there! Anyway no!
We did this...ah, fantastic! First trip from Jersey to Nassau to do the album, we had five
weeks rehearsal in Jersey....well, we had two weeks really because ended up three weeks
partying at the bar. My goodness, we had the only 24-hour bar on the island, and we
ah...funnily enough we managed to cram 25 hours in a day, hahaha! So there we are, fifteen
days before we're supposed to leave....fifteen days! We hadn't even written any...well, the
boys had written some....but we really hadn't rehearsed anything cause we was partying to
much and having a good time, and all that good stuff. So there you are, we get this....most of
the song's written, get to Jersey, boom! 

Oh, by the way, when we first arrived in Jersey, the first place we went to was a place called
The Traveller's Rest. Dear Tony Wiggins our tour manager, he told us all about this place
because he checked it out before us. Said "here look, you've got to come in this place before
we go" and that's the first thing we did, got of the plane, picked the suitcase up, "HILLO!"
they said, "HOWWYOU!", "we're fine", "Ok you can come through". So we go through, get
in the cabs...off we go, Traveller's Rest. Stopped in the Traveller's Rest. "You've gotta have
a banana daquery" says Tony Wiggens. Well allright, lets have a drop.. banana... we says,
bananna... it's a poof drink! So, fair enough, so there we are sitting at the bar, and there's five
poofs sitting at the bar, us! Hahaha! Drinking these daqueries. Hahaha, no! So, the first one
goes down, we thought "f'king great, nothing to it, lets have another one!" F'king second one
goes down... fifteen minutes later we're on our third banana daquery. Now, we're talking
serious alcohol here but you don't taste it because it's a frozen drink, it's bunged in a blender,
loads of ice, (unintelligable) banana liqueur, na...bananna (unintelligable), and lots of wizzing
around of varous parts, and you stick it in a glass and suck it up with a straw. For
about...three of these as I said later, ...quarter of an hour goes by ... half an hour, we try to
stand up and leave. I mean, it was like, you know, "Gaaaahh, where we goin?" Ah, we were
gone! We, we, we spent many a night down in that place, but only after an hour...we did
have a party after we actually recorded Flight of Icarus... we went down to the pub and ah,
tried to get it and gave up. The next day it weren't happening, but we went after we
celebrated... we went out and celebrated the first single being recorded. 
But just before we did this, recorded the song. Steve said to me, he said, "don't you think we
ought to speed it up a bit?" I said, "Yeah, I think it should be a bit faster." And Dave and
H....um, Bruce and H, sorry, had written this song. And they were like very adamant about
the tempo of this thing, they didn't want it sort of speeding up or anything like this. So 'Arry
said "play it a bit faster." I said "yes, I'll (intelligable) it up, don't worry" So we get in the
studio and rehearsed it, we done it once or twice and it was, you know, happening. But not
so...f'king hell, I'll boost it up a tad... I'll pump it... you know. So I'm out there, "boom do do
da do do doom do do da! do do doom..." you know, allright we go... hah! and ah Bruce,
Dave and H going "aah Nick, what you.. f'king... what'd you doing?" You know, I said
"Nothing!", and I thought to myself, "Ah there we go, the new boy in the band, and they think
he's only been in the band f'king two months and he's speeding everything up, you know."
Anyway, as it turned out, it's great, wasn't it? It was really a good song. 
So, they asked me to do the video. So out we are, and they said, "look do you want to do
the video? You can be the old man in it." I said, "Old man? Look here, look here who do
you think you're talking to... old man! Give us a break!" They said, "well you are, aren't ya."
F'king cheek! Swift kick up the jackseat for that! ah boof! (mumbles something) So there I
am, I'm out there, they said...I said, allright I'll do the video. And they said, yeah but
ahhh.....we gotta blue your chops. I said "what?" They said, "we gotta put blue makeup on
your face." I said, "you can piss off! I ain't having none of that!" They said, "You f'king will, if
you wanna star in the video!" Neeah! So there! You wanna do it or not? I thought,
"well....f'king I'm the new boy, and I should do it really, it'll be a bit fun." And it was, it turned
out to be the most amazing... fun... I tell ya, we really had a good time. Couple of dodgy
moments when I was standing on the edge of this little cliff looking down at the...or looking
out to the ocean. The wind was blowing, no the wind. I mean, I was (farting noise) as well,
certainly, but nevertheless. It was... I was (uningelligable) sixty... fifty... sixty feet down to the
ocean! F'king great big waves rolling in there, I mean I only needed to fall over and that was
it! Goodbye, no f'king Icky to help me out with the wings....c'mon dad, watch this! 

Anyway, that leads me on to I've Got The Fire, which is on the b-side as you know, of
Flight Of Icarus. Now, for you boys and girls out there who've been paying attention and
doing your homework, and buying the first, second, third, and fourth box set of the new
singles, et cetera, or the old new singles. I've Got The Fire was recorded on the very very
first Maiden single which was Running Free, now we've already talked about that. But the
boys decided to do it. Steve said, "I'd like to have the penultimate... or not the penultimate,
the definive... de... DEFINITIVE version of this, studio version wise, lets do it again." So
that's why we burned that one on the Icarus single. 
Now moving on slowly but surely to The Trooper. Now that's a great old.... thats a song to
play, man! (hums and drums in the background).... All that, yeah! Gosh! Bringing back
some.... I wanna go out and do it. Based on a charge of the light brigade! Watch out! My
goodness, woah, never has there been so many to fight so few! Or whatever, I don't know,
that was Winnie, the wrong one. Aces High, that's coming up next kids. Yeah, well that's
you know, in the next box set if you go out and buy it, you'll hear it on the next "Nicko's uuh,
you didn't know... not alot of people knew that..." Right? Number six I guess it'll be then. But
anyway, yeah, oh I remember.... in.... what was it? What was it? Into the valley of death
rode the however many it was, that was what I was trying to think of and I got the Winnie
quote down the wrong way. Nevertheless! Yes, great song. 

Cross-eyed Mary. Ian Anderson wrote this song, Jethro Tull played it. We recorded it... the
b-side. Did I tell you it was released the 28th of June 1983? Chart position 12? Well if I told
you that once already, f'king too bad! So what! Nyah! See. Had to get that one in. And as a
matter of fact, Cross-eyed Mary recieved.... gosh, I mean, ulitmates ultimates lots of loads of
and indies and outsies of U.S. airplay, I tell ya, this was one of the biggest... the song to be
played the most on U.S. airplay from Iron Maiden. Ain't that funny. It's the best one that they
ever played. Well I guess their answer would say that's f'king life, isn't it. 
Oh by the way, just before I sign off... because I've gotta go now... you know, there's a beer
waiting for me down the road in the bar. So I thought I'd better go in and have myself a little
liquid libation, being I'm half way throught these little box sets here. Did you hear the one
about the queer shepherd? No? Well, he kept mounting goats! Hahahahahaha! It's stupid,
isn't it? I love it though... oh gosh! Ok, take care of yourselves, see you later allright? Bye.
				

Kill for gain or shoot to maim
But we don't need a reason
The Golden Goose is on the loose
And never out of season
Some blackened pride still burns inside
This shell of bloody treason
Here's my gun for a barrel of fun
For the love of living death.

CHORUS
The killer's breed or the demon's seed,
The glamour, the fortune, the pain,
Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain,
But don't you pray for my soul anymore.
2 minutes to midnight
The hands that threaten doom.
2 minutes to midnight
To kill the unborn in the womb.

The blind men shout let the creatures out
We'll show the unbelievers
The napalm screams of human flames
Of a prime time Belsen feast...YEAH!
As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy,
We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies.

CHORUS

The body bags and little rags of children torn in two
And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you.
As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song,
To the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun.

CHORUS

Midnight...all night...
				

In the heat of the morning
when your day is still dawning
And your bird, she's singing
Catch your soul, he's willing to fly away

Packed your bags in a hurry
Because your mind's in a worry
Mark my words, you're gonna be sorry if you ever fly away

Sweet little girl with the Saint Da Vinci-smile
Stares at me with sadness in her eyes
I'm not sure if she's really real or make-believe
Maybe she's a vision that comes to only me

Cause I'm so tired
Yes I'm so tired
So tired
Yes I'm so tired

SOLO

REPEAT FIRST VERSE
				

				Steve:

...anyways, he did not deserve to get a bollocking... ...at the time,
I know why he got a bollocking, because you, you know, you dunno what
the fuck he's goin' on about, but he didn't really deserve it. All
he's trying to do is relay a message from me to you, right? And he
went the wrong way about it, okay?
Nicko:

Yeah, he did go the wrong way about it.
Steve:

Well then.
Nicko:

Well I'm, I, I, I, I tell you what, I mean it ain't gonna happen
again.
Bruce:

I don't see where you get steamed, I mean, if the truss was gonna...
Nicko:

Why I got steamed up Bruce is because he fucked me right up. And I
knew there was a problem, I still didn't know what it was even after
he...I, I fucked! I fucking fucked up!
Steve:

I know that. Look, it's like...
Nicko:

...and I stopped, and it was like "oh, for fuck's sake!" Come on kids,
and I'm looking around... what is he trying to tell me? What's the
problem?
Steve:

Can't you understand? Can't you understand if I'm trying to get a
fucking message through to ya, right?...I'd have still...it'd a been a
lot worse. If I, if I had to go me gear done...as it happens, (snaps
his fingers) just in the nick of the time I got it done. If I...
Nicko:

Yeah, I still didn't get the message.
Steve:

I know you didn't. But what we're saying, it didn't... whatever
happens if I got him trying to get a fuckin' message to ya. Y'know
what I mean?
Nicko:

Sure Steve, but the fact is that the guy was not handling it the right
way.
Steve:

You don't think of things like that Nick.
Nicko:

But that's diff... look...
Steve:

I bollocked...I was shouting at ya, "look, my gear's gone down".
Nicko:

It's me that fucked-up.
Steve:

Listen...
Nicko:

I'm the one out there all on me own...
Steve:

I know.
Nicko:

...I'm doing a drum solo. And I've got fuckin' talkin' to...
Steve:

No I'm the one, I'm only one 'a thinking, I've got fucking like a
minute to go before m..., to get this fucking gear right.
Bruce:

Yeah, but if somebody gives a message to me...
Steve:

No?
Bruce:

...I mean, it doesn't matter who it is, I mean, the message gets
through.
Nicko:

Bruce, it's different...
Steve:

It's a different situation.
Nicko:

...it's different for you. You're not standing there all on your
fucking own having a somebody try to get your attention and talk to
you. I'm playin' a drum solo, and the guy's standing a yard, or two
yards behind my drum riser goin'...
Steve:

Yeah, all I'm trying a...
Nicko:

..."fucking
anga-yangna-baba"..."wha?"..."BABA-BABA-BABA!"..."WHAAAA???..." the
fuck! Uhhhhh! By the time I've got that far, I'm fuckin totally
fucked. Because I'm p..., I'm not paying attention to my gig...
Steve:

Hey, look...
Nicko:

...I'm paying attention to what he's trying to tell me.
Bruce:

Yeah, but nobody woulda noticed.
Steve:

I complete...
Nicko:

I noticed!
Steve:

I completely understand that.
Nicko:

Fucked me right up.
Steve:

But he, he was only doing what I told him to do, and that was get a
message to you. Now that the fucking heat of the moment and just,
everything on hand... he don't think to fucking tell Bill, he wants to
get the message to you, not to fucking Bill, so he don't think of
that, he just tries to get the message to you, right? So, he don't
fucking deserve to get a bollocking for that, I mean, alright he got
one I know... not sayin that. But I just don't, you know...
Bruce:

Attente! Attente!
Steve:

...Bob was a nice guy. He's not like he's, fuckin', he's an asshole...
Nicko:

No, no...
Steve:

...or an idiot, or anything like that.
Nicko:

Oh no, but he was out of order, because he didn'...
Bruce:

He wasn't out of order.
Nicko:

He was.
Steve:

He wasn't out of order. He was wrong.
Nicko:

He was, 'cause he fucked me up by tryin to tell me...
Steve:

Nicko.
Nicko:

If he'd of come up to the riser...
Steve:

Nicko.
Nicko:

Look...
Steve:

Nicko.
Nicko:

...if he'd of come up to the riser there, I COULDA FUCKIN HEARD HIM!!!
Steve:

But Nick...
Nicko:

Cunt was standin' behind, I was sittin' down.
Steve:

Yeah...
Nicko:

..."bada-bada-ba"
Steve:

He was wrong. He made a mistake, but he wasn't out of order.
Bruce:

It wasn't deliberate.
Steve:

He made a mistake...
Nicko:

Now, I know it ain't deliberate.
Steve:

...for fuck's sake.
Nicko:

I didn't know that at the time, right? I still didn't know that Steve
had a problem with his bass...
Steve:

That's what I'm saying.
Nicko:

...luckily enough, by the time I finished the poxy solo, he had his
bass working again.
Steve:

It was all that fucking grief...
Bruce:

All it takes is the guy...
Nicko:

The grief was, because I bollocked him up, and I happened to tell ya,
and you go "don't bollock him, go out and apologize," right. Fuck him,
I'm gonna go and apologize to him.
Bruce:

Well all you gotta do...
Nicko:

It's not for me to apologise. I bollocked him 'cause he fucked me up.
Right there, he fucked me up. He was wrong.
Bruce:

All you gotta do...no he wasn't wrong.
Nicko:

He was.
Steve:

He wasn't wrong.
Nicko:

He did not handle it... he's not even fucking communicating, right?
Steve:

Aw! I don' wanna fuckin argue about this, it's fucking stupid... I
think you're really out of order, I think...honestly.
Nicko:

No bollocks! Oh I am not out of order.
Steve:

You are. You're attitude is out of order.
Nicko:

He... no it ain't.
Steve:

It is.
Nicko:

No it ain't. The guy fucked me up.
Steve:

I know he did...
Nicko:

Well then that's out of order...
Steve:

...he didn't mean to.
Nicko:

LOOK, I'M NOT SAYIN HE FUCKIN' MEANT TO 'ARRY!!! The fact is that he
was a dumbkopf, 'cause he don't know how to fuckin communicate with me
onstage...
Bruce:

But he's not a dumbkopf.
Nicko:

Aww!
Steve:

He's not fuckin' stupid.
Nicko:

Well, he fuckin' certainly did a good job out there this afternoon,
didn't he?
Steve:

He made a mistake, because I...
Nicko:

What do you mean "He made a mistake"?
Steve:

Because I...
Nicko:

You sent him. How could he make a mistake?
Steve:

That's right.
Nicko:

How did he make a mistake?
Steve:

Well, he made the mistake by not sending Bill first, right?
Nicko:

Well, well he made a mistake, right?
Steve:

Yeah.
Nicko:

Well, why?...
Bruce:

There's a difference between making a mistake...
Steve:

Well that's what I'm saying.
Bruce:

...and a difference between making a human error...
Nicko:

Right, so he made a mistake, right?
Steve:

Yeah!
Nicko:

And I'm griefed up cause he fuckin' made me make a mistake. Now that
he... now I can understand what he was talking about after the fact...
it remains to be seen, he was on a mission from you.
Steve:

Aw, I'm not gonna argue about it.
Nicko:

Right? Fuck my old boots, it just... I can't hack... I can't handle
that situation when people think some can't make me grief, and it's
important to me to get a message like that... fucking hell! How can I
get some... get, get... when I also fucked as well... I would'na
minded if I'd have gotten what it was happening straight. Like, on the
end "alright, 'Arris got his bass fucked, right I'll carry on and do
something else", then that's fine, if I didn't fuck-up... but he made
me fuck. It totally threw me right out, and he wasn't...
Steve:

I know it did.
Nicko:

...He didn't know how to talk to me about it. And, and I've, I've told
him "don't do that again."
Steve:

Because, see, it's not, it's not, it's not fair relaying a message to
people. He was just...
Nicko:

And he never turned 'round.
Steve:

...look, it coulda been anybody. It was just that he was the first one
on hand.
Nicko:

'Arry.
Steve:

He was just standing there.
Nicko:

He never turned around, he never even turned around afterwards and
said "Listen, did you?...I'm sorry, but you didn't understand what I
was saying right?"
Steve:

Well why should he?
Nicko:

Well then, then, then because...
Steve:

He got a fuckin' bollocking.
Nicko:

...He woulda stood up for himself because he knows he was gotten a
bollocking wrong, because he was on a mission from you.
Steve:

He was probably...
Bruce:

No.
Steve:

He was probably fuckin upset...
Bruce:

He's probably a bit upset.
Steve:

...because you gave him a fucking bollocking.
Nicko:

Well, rightly.
Steve:

You gave him up for...as far as he's con...
Bruce:

No, not rightly.
Nicko:

Rightly, yeah.
Steve:

But no, it's not rightly.
Bruce:

No!
Nicko:

I told him "DON'T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!"
Steve:

No.
Bruce:

That's crazy.
Steve:

But what?...
Bruce:

What happens if the lighting truss is gonna fall down on your head?
Does he go?...
Nicko:

Well then somebody drags me out of the fuckin' way, or else I'm dead,
right?
Bruce:

Yeah, but don't... I mean... you know.
Steve:

I think your attitude is totally fucking out of order.
Nicko:

No it ain't. No it ain't.
Steve:

Yes it is.
Nicko:

No it ain't. If I'd have known... now I'm the fuckin' cunt all of a
sudden.
Steve:

No, you're not the cunt.
Bruce:

You're not a cunt.
Nicko:

Because I told him he was out of order, and I didn't know he was on a
mission from you to tell me that his bass, your bass was FUCKED!
Steve:

I know you didn't.
Bruce:

All you've got to do Nicko, is just go to the guy and say...
Steve:

You didn't know, and he didn't know, alright?
Bruce:

"Sorry about, sorry about shouting. It was a misunderstanding. But in
future, tell Bill" that's all you gotta say.
Nicko:

No. No.
Bruce:

And that way, he's a fuckin' proud geezer...
Steve:

What's, what's the matter with ya?
Bruce:

He goes...
Nicko:

Look...
Steve:

'Cause if this is some sorta pride thing or what?
Nicko:

I bollocked him... no it ain't pride. It's, it's not fuckin' pride.
Steve:

Well what's the matter with ya?
Bruce:

It is pride.
Nicko:

Oh bollocks!
Steve:

What's the matter with ya?
Nicko:

The guy was wrong to have been fuckin' there to do what he done.
Steve:

I know. All I'm, all I'm gonna say is that when you're going up
tomorrow...
Bruce:

No it isn't wrong. What's he supposed to do? Turn around...
Steve:

...this is a different attitude, 'cause this is fucking stupid.
Nicko:

I told him straight out not to do it again.
Bruce:

What's he supposed to do? What's he?...
Nicko:

I'm not gonna go out and apologize for saying that to him...
Bruce:

He's NOT!
Nicko:

...He was outta fuckin' order.
Bruce:

He's not out of order.
Bruce:

what happens...
Nicko:

Bruce.
Bruce:

...if I fucking go and tell somebody to do something, he goes "No,
fuck off! I'm not gonna do that."
Nicko:

Listen, Bruce...
Bruce:

Then he's out of order.
Nicko:

Bruce...
Bruce:

But he goes and tells him to go and do something...
Nicko:

...I'm not concerned with, with, with, with, with other people that
can't fucking talk to me on stage, who don't know how to fucking
communicate with me...
Bruce:

But he's not out of order trying to do it.
Nicko:

...He did not know how to communicate with me.
Steve:

Some cunt's recording this!

There goes the siren that warns of the air raid
Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak
Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne
Got to get up for the coming attack.

Jump in the cockpit and start up the engines
Remove all the wheelblocks there's no time to waste
Gathering speed as we head down the runway
Gotta get airborne before it's too late.

Running, scrambling, flying
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die
Run, live to fly, fly to live. Aces high.

Move in to fire at the mainstream of bombers
Let off a sharp burst and then turn away
Roll over, spin round and come in behind them
Move to their blindsides and firing again.

Bandits at 8 O'clock move in behind us
Ten ME-109's out of the sun
Ascending and turning our spitfires to face them
Heading straight for them I press down my guns

Rolling, turning, diving
Rolling, turning, diving, going in again
Run, live to fly, fly to live, do or die
Run, live to fly, fly to live, Aces high.
				

Crying In The Dark
I've been trying, trying so hard
I've been crying, crying in the dark
Don't forsake me, the time of mine is near
Don't ever break me and the world that brought me here

Sick and lonely, waiting for you       /* ??? */
Sick and lonely, wondering what to do
Can you hear me, when I say to you
You give me your hand, I'll give mine to you

King of twilight

When the king of twilight shows me
I will take ten steps to see
Forty leaves I pay for freedom

For a chance to be free
For a chance to be free

When the king of twilight calls you
take a step and you will see
We all need a quick solution

For a chance to be free
For a chance to be free
Free

When the king of twilight shows me
I will take ten steps to see
Forty leaves I pay for freedom

For a chance to be free
For a chance to be...
FREE
				

"Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the beast
with wrath, because he knows the time is short...
Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast
for it is a human number, its number is Six hundred and sixty
six."
Revelations ch. xiii v. 18

I left alone my mind was blank
I needed time to get the memories from my mind

What did I see can I believe that what I saw
that night was real and not just fantasy

Just what I saw in my old dreams were they
reflections of my warped mind staring back at me

Cos in my dreams it's always there the evil face that twists my mind
and brings me to despair

The night was black was no use holding back
Cos I just had to see was someone watching me
In the mist dark figures move and twist
was all this for real or some kind of hell
666 the Number of the Beast
Hell and fire was spawned to be released

Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised
as they start to cry hands held to the sky
In the night the fires burning bright
the ritual has begun Satan's work is done
666 the Number of the Beast
Sacrifice is going on tonight

This can't go on I must inform the law
Can this still be real or some crazy dream
but I feel drawn towards the evil chanting hordes
they seem to mesmerise me...can't avoid their eyes
666 the Number of the Beast
666 the one for you and me

I'm coming back I will return
And I'll possess your body and I'll make you burn
I have the fire I have the force
I have the power to make my evil take its course
				

(drumming and singing in the background)...
Oh..Oh! You cheeky! You slimeball! What did you do that for, you rotten terror Dave? You
f'king put my own voice and verbals in the... you know, they've heard me trying to sing this
f'king song now.

Well how ya doing out there, you lot? Eh? Welcome yet again to Nicko's "not alot of people
know that, or knew that, or still don't... I don't know, whatever it is now days... number six."
You are absolutely devastatingly spoiled, the lot of ya. You're out there in your greasy
sweaty debauched horrible stinking little palms and fingers and all those horrible little bits and
pieces that go on your hands... Are now the proudest of possibly the most amazed Iron
Maiden fans to own 2 Minutes To Midnight, Rainbow's Gold, Mission From 'Arry...
hoho! We shall talk about that later... And as you heard, that rotten Dave there will be
tiddling the knobs in the control room, decided to wack the microphone on... Aces High,
King Of Twilight, Number Of The Beast live! Oh you gosh, you've got such a package
there! How can you still be sane, after this? I mean, goodness gracious, listen to me, I've
been playing it for six years! Hahahaa! Anyway, no! 

Oh gosh, (sings) two minutes to midnight.... cha! Released the 6th of August 1984. My third
single with the band. I guess that must make the band's eleventh or tenth single, whenever.
Don't write in and say, "Nick I've got it wrong." or else I'll... (hits the microphone)... give you
some of that! And, it got to number 11 in the charts and this great British... oh by the way,
earlier on I was thinking of trying to think... you know we had the Bleeding Bojack
Company, which we all know who that is by now, right? Now there was another company
that I sort of mentioned prior to this little speech I'm giving to you now, and I won't actually
tell you who it was, but the kind of... the... the abbreviation of this I suppose you'll get it
from, but I though we could call them the Mighty Tight Veg, what do you think? I mean, they
haven't got any clue, have they? You know, I mean, nevertheless! Hahaha! Now then, we all
know who they are, cause they've wimped out. Nevertheless, we still got to number 11 in the
great British charts thanks to you guys again, and girls, and all them little guyettes and guygirls
and znznzn... all them people sort of whatever out there... First released single off the
Powerslave album, and yet again this album was recorded in the Bahamas. Yes sir, mmmm
hmmm! Now, as we all know, 2 Minutes To Midnight, great song, good video... the first
story format that the band had ever put out on a video rather than just sort of crazy stuff
and... and... the norm, you know. Hehehe. 

Rainbow's Gold was a song written by some friends of the band's, a guy called Terry Sles...
Slesser, sorry Terry I didn't mean to get it wrong... Terry Slesser and a guy called Kenny
Mountain who ah... in a band called Beckett together, I do believe. I might have go that
wrong... so f'king hell what if I have! You gonna do something about it? Huh huh? Come
over here! 

Anyway, now then, on the butt end of this here single was a track called Mission From
'Arry. See? Now, those of you out there, still to this day some of you think that this was a
coreographed piece of entertainment for all you guys and girls. Well I can tell you it f'king
well was not. It was in fact the, if only, the very f... only argument I've ever had with Steve
Harris. We were onstage in Allantown Pennsylvania one evening... this was on the Piece Of
Mind tour... when... although it was released on the back of a Powerslave single, it was
actually recorded on the Piece Of Mind tour. And, I was doing a drum solo... you know,
new boy in the band, do a drum solo Nick... get on with it. So in this period of time, Steve
would go off to the back of the gig and change his... if he had a dodgy bass string, or he...
normally he would... but what happened on this night, he was changing the battery on his
remote, or his... should I say his transmitter. So, he sent this guy around to tell Mike my drum
tech to tell me to extend my drum solo, cause he weren't ready. But he didn't tell my drum
tech, he told this guy who was sitting at the back of the gig who was one of the riggers, a guy
called Paul who's no longer with the band, I wonder why? No, anyway, he said to him, "tell
Nick to extend his drum solo." So I'm playing... (makes drum noises).... and all that shit, and
I gets a tap on the back and this guy says "Ooy!" I go, "What!" "Ooy! Blahahaey!" I go
"What!" He's going "Heyheyhey ehey!" and he's pointing to Steve. I'm going, "EH?" He's
going, "ah ah heyheyhey!" I'm going, "WHAT!!!" He's going, "WAHEHAAHAHAYYY!" I
said, "FUCK OFFFFFF!!!" Hahah... Jesus Christ, he made me FUCK!!! Oh! Anyway,
what could I do? 

I stopped, I gone absolutely wally, so I've come off the gig anyway... and cut the... to make
a long story even longer, I've come off the gig and I gone in the dressing room and I said,
"That f'king geezer at the back of the gig! What the f'king hell does he think he's doing?
There he is, he's giving me all these verbal signs and all this stuff right?" I said, "I couldn't
understand him, he was about three feet behind me instead of coming up and shouting in my
lughole." Harris said, "I sent him." I went, "You what?" He said, "I sent him." I said, "What
the f'king hell you doing sending him around to give me messages?" He said, "Well, I... you
know... play a bit more and you know, need a bit more time to change my bass
thing-a-me-bob." And I said, "I f'king care about that, this geezer made me fuck!" He said,
"Well look, you better go and appologize to him." And I said, "F'king right I am! I f'king
appologizing to him, he made me fuck!" He said... hahaha! That's the argument. We argued
about fifteen twenty minutes, and it all calmed down, and Bruce came in and he got a bloody
cassette in his back pocket, and he said, "Oy Nick, what would happen if he tried to tell you
the lighting truss was going to fall on your head?" And I said, "Don't you f'king well start!"
And 'Arry said, "yeah, he's got a good point, doesn't he?" So we started the argument again
and Bruce recorded it. And then at the end of this Mission From 'Arry you'll remember
this... 'Arry says... he grabs the tape... just before he grabs it, he sees this tape in the pocket
and he's going "some (beep)'s recording this!" Hahahaha! So he got the tape, and that's
basically how that all happened. But anyway, after this extravaganza, we thought it was so
funny we had to let you guys hear it. And that's the only serious argument I've ever had with
Steve in my life... or my life. 

So, that just about gives me enough time in this little "not alot of people know that number
six, part six, or whatever", to tell you just a tad about Aces High, which as you know has got
King Of Twilight on it, and Number... NOB! of.. Number Of The Beast live. This song
was released 22nd of... no it wasn't... heh! It was, it was released 22nd of October 1984.
Chart position 20 that got to. Now, at the time we were rehearsing the Powerslave album,
Steve was writing this single, I started to learn to fly airplanes in Jersey. And, I'd come home
from the aerodrome, and I'd have the old... you know, twisting the old ends of the mustache,
twiddling the old various bits and pieces... the hat and the goggles and the scarf... "Woah,
tally-ho Biggles! You've bandits at six o'clock low, coming out of the sun, 12 o'clock high!
Watch out, full power, bomb's away Biggles!" You know, all that good stuff. And I think it
sort of slightly influenced Steve to write this song, you know, about those 2nd World War
spitfire pilots and those guys. Hey, shhh... just between you and me, Steve... he doesn't like
to fly. He hates it, he think's I'm an absolute nut case! But, you don't tell him I told you, will
you, because he'd be very upset. 

Anyway, Aces High, King Of Twilight.... great! What a package this one is for you! I wish
I had more time to explain some more of the stories on 2 Minutes and things like that, around
that time. But I really do have to go now, I'm running out of time. Oh yes, just a little joke for
you before I leave. Have you heard the one about the two queers? The were fighting over a
manhole! Hahahahah! See ya, I'm off! Bye!
				

Live

Just sixteen, a pickup truck, out of money, out of luck.
I've got nowhere to call my own, hit the gas, and here I go.

I'm running free yeah, I'm running free.
I'm running free yeah, Oh I'm running free.

Spent the night in an L. A. jail, and listened to the sirens wail.
They ain't got a thing on me, I'm running wild, I'm running free.

I'm running free yeah, I'm running free.
I'm running free yeah, Oh I'm running free.

Puller here at the Bottle Top, whiskey, dancing, disco hop.
Now all the boys are after me, and that's the way it's gonna be.

I'm running free yeah, I'm running free.
I'm running free yeah, Oh I'm running free.
				

Live

Out of the route came a warhorse of steel. 
I've never killed a woman before, but I know how it feels. 

I know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw. 
So now I've got to look for sanctuary from the law. 
So give me sanctuary from the law and I'll be alright. 
Just give me sanctuary from the law and love me tonight, tonight. 

I met up with a stranger last night to keep me alive. 
He spends all his money on gambling and guns to survive. 

I can laugh at the wind, I can howl at the rain. 
Down in the Canyon or out in the plain. 
				

Live

I remember it as plain as day
although it happened in the dark of the night.
I was strolling through the streets of Paris
and it was cold it was starting to rain.
And then I heard a piercing scream
and I rushed to the scene of the crime
but all I found was the butchered remains
of two girls lay side by side.

Murders in the Rue Morgue
someone call the Gendarmes
Murders in the Rue Morgue
run before the killers go free

There's some people coming down the street
at last there's someone heard my call
I can't understand why they're pointing at me
I never done nothing at all.
But I must have got some blood on my hands
because everyone's shouting at me
I can't speak French so I couldn't explain
and like a fool I started running away.

Murders in the Rue Morgue
someone call the Gendarmes
Murders in the Rue Morgue
am I ever gonna be free.

And now I've gotta get away from the arms of the law.
All France is looking for me.
I've gotta find my way across the border for sure
down the south to Italy.

Murders in the Rue Morgue
someone call the Gendarmes
Murders in the Rue Morgue
I'm never going home.

Well I made it to the border at last
But I can't erase the scene from my mind
Anytime somebody stares at me, well
I just start running blind
Well I'm moving through the shadows at night
Away from the staring eyes
Any day they'll be looking for me
'Cause I know I show the signs of...

Murders in the Rue Morgue
running from the Gendarmes
Murders in the Rue Morgue
running from the arms of the law

Murders in the Rue Morgue
running from the Gendarmes
Murders in the Rue Morgue
am I ever gonna be free

It took so long and I'm getting so tired
I'm running out of places to hide
Should I return to the scene of the crime
Where the two young victims died
If I could go to somebody for help
It'd get me out of trouble for sure
But I know that it's on my mind
That my doctor said I've done it before.

Murders in the Rue Morgue
they're never gonna find me
Murders in the Rue Morgue
I'm never going home.
				

Live

White man came across the sea
Brought us pain and misery
Killed our tribes killed our creed
Took our game for his own need

We fought him hard we fought him well
Out on the plains we gave him hell
But many came too much for Cree
Oh will we ever be set free?

Riding through dustclouds and barren wastes
Galloping hard on the plains
Chasing the redskins back to their holes
Fighting them at their own game
Murder for freedom a stab in the back
Women and children and cowards attack

Run to the hills run for your lives
Run to the hills run for your lives

Soldier blue on the barren wastes
Hunting and killing their game
Raping the women and wasting the men
The only good Indians are tame
Selling them whisky and taking their gold
Enslaving the young and destroying the old

Run to the hills run for your lives
				

Live

I've been looking so long for you now you won't get away from my grasp
. You've been living so long in hiding in hiding behind that false mask.
And you know and I know that you ain't got long now to last.
Your looks and your feelings are just the remains of your past.

You're standing in the wings, there you wait for the curtain to fall.
Knowing the terror and holding you have on us all.
Yeah, I know that you're gonna scratch me, maim me and maul.
You know I'm helpless from your mesmerising cat call.

Keep your distance, walk away, don't take his bait.
Don't you stray, don't fade away.
Watch your step, he's out to get you, come what may.
Don't you stray, from the narrow way.

I'm running and hiding in my dreams you're always there.
You're the Phantom of the Opera, you're the devil, you're just out to scare.
You damaged my mind and my soul it just floats through the air.
Haunt me, you taunt me, you torture me back at your lair.
				

Live

[Instrumental]
				

...oh, hey! What! Dave, is that you? Yeah? What day is it? Saturday. Saturday? What do
you mean, I've been in here a week? I have? I don't remember.... I did number four or five
the other week and I... you know, it was the other week, wasn't it? It's too f.... I was in here
for a couple of days then. Eh? What do you mean, stop pissing in the corner? Well if you'd
let me out of this f'king room I wouldn't have to piss in the corner, would I? You're lucky I
didn't take a laxitive or something like that! In fact I ain't had no nookie... I ain't had no...
none of the other, or anything like that for a week! ...(unintelligible)... Wot? I know, yeah
allright, I know Rod said "get it done, at any cost". Well there, that's going a bit too far, isn't
it. Oh, oh no.... tape's rolling! You... tosspot! Anyway! Well in that case, what'ho you lot out
there! Hah! Jesus, you heard that didn't ya? Eh? Well I'm sorry you had to hear all this
business, he started running that tape.... I've just been sitting in here on my own, being
variously.... twiddling various parts of the body, thinking about what's going on. And he's run
that fricking tape! 

Welcome to Nicko's Not Alot Of People Know That, Part 7! You lucky, indespically
lucky, debauched! Oooooh, you've got your hands on Running Free, Sanctuary,Murders
in the Mooo Rooooga... oah, The Rue Morgue, all live! Not only that but you've got a
bumper package of serious songs.... live! Goodness! Released the 23rd of September 1985,
and they got to a chart position of number 19. Hmmm... Not alot of people remember that.
But, I do! Cause I played on them! Hah! Si! Now look, Murders in the Rue.... Oh by the
way, you've got on the other side of that lovely little package in your hands, you've got Run
To The Hills, Phantom Of The Opera, and Losfer Words, or in other words Big 'Orra!
Ah! Now, however you want to pronounce it, "BIG ORRA" or "big orra", you know, Losfer
Words will do. That little lot was released 2nd of December 1985, and it's chart position was
number 26. So stuff it again, where... you know where, or whatever you like. Put it where
you want, I don't care as long as you grease it first... very sore if you don't. 

Now! The first two tracks, as we've said, Running Free and Sanctuary, were recorded at
Long Beach. And I was there, so was Dave, Adrian, Steve, and Bruce. Haha! Good job
too, or else we'd have had a piece of black vinyl! Mmmm. So. Now, these gigs we did were
at Long Beach, and they were all sold out. Mmm hmmm, the very first and only... well
maybe not only, but we were the first and only band at that particular point in time to sell out
four nights in a row at the Long Beach arena in Los f'king Angeles. Somewhere close
anyway, a stone's throw down the road. Nevertheless! Powerslave tour! Hmmmm. By the
way, Running Free... the photograph on the front of this single was by a man none other
than Ross Halfing. He upstaged Derek Riggs for this one. Riggsy, hmmm, he didn't do any
artwork cause Halfing did the photograph. And that, so the only shot of the band, live shot
on any one of the singles we've ever had and ever probably will. So, not alot of people know
that. Now you do, so! What a useless piece of trivia that is. 

Nevertheless! Uhhh, yes, what was I saying? Uhh, Running Free, Sanctuary, Murders....
you lucky lot! As I said, Run To The Hills, Phantom, and Losfer Words. Two songs right
there, Murders and Losfer Words, you will not have heard anywhere else, even on the Live
After Death offering, because it is not recorded on the vinyl, CD, or video. Now you are
very lucky, double-bubble so, because you have got this stuff in your hands. Uuuh! Yes.
Talking of which, the fourth side of the Live After Death, Wrathchild, 22 Acacia Avenue,
Children Of The Damned, Die With Your Boots On, or whatever you like, and Phantom
Of The Opera. All on the extra fourth side, or... not on the extra fourth side, I mean you've
got two frigging albums you dummy, you've got two sides a piece, haven't you, you fool! I
mean, it's not like your going to have five sides to an album, is it? Silly billy... Anyway, fourth
side... only recorded on the album. Mmmm Hmmm! Good stuff! 

Now, what can I say? You lot... you lot want to know a little story, something sort of about
the time we were making this Powerslave album. Or, we'd actually made the album, should
I say, and we were rehearsing the tour, you see, we were rehearsing for the tour in Miami.
Well, a place called Fort Lauterdale, which is just a stone's throw from this very sickly
horribly smelling disgustingly debauched studio I'm sitting in, talking to you from. Well, I was,
because it's recorded so you know... I did this a couple of... whenever it was... moons and
eons ago before this. So, just up the road from Fort Lauterdale. There we are. We were
rehearsing... or there we were... we were rehearsing and all of a sudden, all of a sudden just
like that, we get a phone call. You see. Lauren, I mean, I'm sorry... Lorraine, sorry Lorr.
Lorraine... 'Arry Harris, bomber Harris, Mrs. Bomber Harris, was expecting 'Arry Harris'....
Mrs. Bomber Harris' first nipper. You see! So! She was... the call of nature was coming and
descending rather swiftly, so Steve and I... poor old codger, he didn't want to fly all on his
own... you know he doesn't like flying, I dunno if I told you about that, he hates it doesn't he?
So, having all the experience of the (unintelligible) behind me, I said to Steve, "well look here,
why don't I come back with you?" I mean, I like a couple of weeks in Jersey. 

So Steve and I flew out of Miami to London Heathrow, and it was a Sunday... well, it was a
Saturday when we left Miami, it was a Sunday morning when we arrived. So, we got
absolutely f'king smashed to smithereens on the plane, right! Get's off the plane, staggers
through customs, "Allright, excuse..." oh no, he says, (east Indian accent) "could you please
excuse me, would you come over here," this guy said to Steve Harris, and he's going... he
looked at me, he said "what did I f'king tell you?" He said, "I f'king tell you, everytime I go
through the f'king customs... I'm the straightest one out of the band, I don'f f'king smoke...I",
well he does drink, but uh, whatever. You know. (unintelligible)... all the fricking time,
Murphey's Law, there he is, custom's man.... "What, please... come over here please, where
have you just come from?" 'Arry's going, "Whoah look, f'king not that it's any of your
business!" Well no, he didn't say that but, I mean he shoulda done. And he would have
probably got in... got out of there quicker! Anyway, he didn't. So the guy said, "what do you
have in this here bag?" And 'Arry said, "it's a f'king video, what do you think it is, what does
it look like?" "Where did you get this from?" He said, "Oh, I f'king don't know, I got it in the
States somewhere." "Do you have a f'king reciept?" 'Arry said, "I f'king don't!" "Oooh,
goodness! I have you! You are nicked, at that proverbially up the creek shit with the paddle
now!" And I said, allright frigging what am I gonna do now? So he's standing there, an hour
and a half goes by! I'm... no, it wasn't quite an hour now, I lie, I kid you not though, it was
about one hour fifteen minutes, cause I timed him! You know, I dunno when I started, I
know I was pretty close. Because, as you know boys and girls, the liscensing laws in
England permit.... prevent you from having a liquid libation after two o'clock in the morning, I
mean in the afternoon... and the morning. But, we wanted to make it to the pub to have a pint
of real bear, because we'd been starved, we'd been eating them... drinking them poof drinks
down in Nassau, which I told you all about, remember? By the way, it was Nassau Bahamas
and not Jersey where the Traveller's rest was, see! So, there we were, standing at customs
an hour fifteen minutes. I said... he comes out, he going "I f'king don't believe this," he said,
"did you see what that geezer was asking?" I said "well, no, I just saw your feet underneath."
I kept looking, I thought they'd run away with him, I was gonna call out the dog's and
everything. You know, get on the phone with the lawyer... 'Arry's been arrested or
something. We could... he was standing there hour and fifteen minutes. 

So we gets in the limo, mind you we got to go to Gatwick to get a plane to Jersey. So we
thought, we've got enough time to stop off in the proverbial boozer. So we said, yeah, fair
enough. So the limo guy's going "I dunno if you're going to make this," it was like 1 o'clock
when we left Heathrow. So I says, "Yes we will, if you put your boot to that... down to the
floor, we can get down to the pub." So we did, we got to the Devonshire Arms, just on the
(unintelligible) round-about, down there on the old A-4. So, we pops in there, had a quick
swift half... then it was a pint... then it was a pint and a half.... then it was two... they were all
in one pint glasses mind you. 'Arry's on the phone with the wife, "Got here allright," he says,
ten past one. So we, you know... twenty past two, hahaha, we got a four o'clock plane to
catch at Glas... at uh Glasgow, uuhh you wish... at Gatwick, see? Guy says, "I think you'd
better leave if you're gonna make the plane." I says, (drunken voice) "ok... can I take a beer
with us, gov'nor?" This guy, Michael and his wife, I don't know, they're not there anymore.
So he says, "yeah look, take one of these flaggons... one of them little flaggons, they've got
four and a half pints of beer in it, you know, little plastic jobs, take... carry that." So we got in
this car, proceeded to go to Gatwick. Got on the plane to Jersey, gets on the plane and
opens up this bottle, don't we. The pair of us, sitting right at the back of this 727, or
whatever it was, DC-9. There we are, gargling back the old liquid nectar. Girl comes up and
says "I'm sorry, you can't do that!" We said, "F'king too bad! Watcha gonna do, throw us
off?" She said, "I'll f'king have you arrested!" We said, "Go ahead! We're having our drink
anyway." We'd already finished half by this... we were 'faced! 

Gets off at Jersey.... yes, you guessed it! God done over by customs, the pair of us, didn't
we? So there we are standing there, "Hello hello hello! What you been up to, you naughty
boys?" "We just had a couple of beers on the plane, gov'ner." "Yeah, well, that took you a
little bit of time to get pissed, it's only an hour flight..." "But we... we got on the plane in
Miami!" Hah! "Ok," he says, "let's have a look in your bags." So, we got turned over again.
That night, we carried on drinking, a whole 24 or 48 hours worth of boozing. 'Arry comes
home... I left, I threw the towl in at 12 midnight, I couldn't handle it. We went to this place
called Loberts in Jersey, man we got 'faced there, I mean we was gone when we got there.
So I've given... thrown the towel in at 12 o'clock. Harris came back, must have been about
half past two in the f'king morning, how he done it I've no idea. Five thirty, "oh God, gotta
have a word with the gov'ner on the big white telephone, I'll be back in a minute." Two hours
later, poor bloke he was green. I got up, I felt terrible, I says "Yeah, what's the matter with
you?" "What do you f'king think?" He said, "What do you think?" I said, "aah, you ain't too
well are ya?" 

Three days later... three days later, this is the first week of July by the way folks. About three
or four days later... we must have got there around the 30th of June. Anyway, what a great
ending, Steve got rid of his hangover, he get's a phone call from the wife, "I'm having it! I'm
having it!" "Ok, I'll be right there!" Oh, he hops to the airport, gets on a plane, and uh, it was
July the 6th actually, not alot of people know that, but Lauren, his very first daughter... he's
got three daughters now... uh uhh and uhh and uhh... she was born, I don't know what time
in the day, but he got there allright and he was at the birth. And of course he's not looked
back... looked back ever since. So, there you go... there's a little story from that period of
time. I've got to go... I've got to go, I really do mean this, I've... (farting noise)... Jeez, I'll see
ya.
				

From the coast of gold, across the seven seas,
I'm travelling on, far and wide,
But now it seems, I'm just a stranger to myself,
And all the things I sometimes do, it isn't me but someone else.

I close my eyes, and think of home,
Another city goes by, in the night,
Ain't it funny how it is, you never miss it til it's gone away,
And my heart is lying there and will be til my dying day.

Chorus:
So understand
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years,
Face up...make your stand,
And realise you're living in the golden years.

Too much time on my hands, I got you on my mind,
Can't ease this pain, so easily,
When you can't find the words to say, it's hard to make it through another day
And it makes me wanna cry, and throw my hands up to the sky.

Chorus:
So understand
Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years,
Face up...make your stand,
And realise you're living in the golden years.
				

It's over your head
And you don't seem to understand
One word I say
And you can't live your life
Trying to run away

You're fighting your friends
You're wearing everybody out
But it never ends
You're wearing me out

(chorus)
Come on
Reach out
And let somebody in your life

Don't get me wrong
You always apologize
It's just your way
Of making a scene
You need to be loved
It's not such a crime

(repeat chorus)

Over your head
You just don't seem to understand
One word I say
And you can't live your life
You got so much love
It's burning inside

(repeat chorus)
				

Life in a city living in L.A.
Is a long way from Huddersfield town
The back of the Rainbow's a long way from heaven
But that's where he get's his pork pie
Limos and ladies they're driving him queasy
Rugby and cricket's unknown
Baseball and football they're making him lazy
Your fan club says "Rodney come home"

(chorus)
The Sheriff of Huddersfield locked in his castle
Look down on Hollywood Hills
The Sheriff of Huddersfield locked in his castle
You're our own Hot Rod on wheels

A good game of arrows a few dozen barrels
The Nautilus rusts in the yard
But for Yorkshire he's yearning but because he's earning
He'll always live in L.A.
A custom made wallet that stays in his pocket
And never comes out to pay bills
He's winning at poker and playing the Joker
And he always cheats when he deals

(repeat chorus)

(Rodney's rap)
Hello, let me introduce meself!
My name is Rodney. I'm  immensely strong.
When I were a lad, I could lift up five
navies on an end of a shovel.
The reason I never took martial arts because
I was immensely fearsome and
I'd probably kill everybody
I came into contact with it.
I was phenomenally strong.
Pride and ego, my lads, pride and ego,
is what makes the world rotate.
And everybody knows the centre of the universe is Huddersfield
but I don't live there anymore.
I live in Los Angeles.
It's great!... I think

Rufus the red has a crane by his bed
To wrench himself up in the morn'
But if you dare to tread at the foot of his bed
You'll wish you'd never been born.
A bear with a sore head we mean your forehead
He slumbers for most of the day
Wide eyed and legless baked beans for breakfast
Your problem Rodney L.A.

(repeat chorus)
				

Was many years ago that I left home and came this way,
I was a young man full of hopes and dreams,
But now it seems to me that all is lost and nothing gained,
Sometimes things ain't what they seem,
No brave new world, no brave new world,
No brave new world, no brave new world.

Night and day I scan horizon, sea and sky,
My spirit wanders endlessly,
Until the day will dawn and friends from home discover why,
Hear me calling, rescue me,
Set me free, set me free,
Lost in this place and leave no trace.

Chorus:
Stranger in a strange land,
Land of ice and snow,
Trapped here in this prison, yeah!
Lost and far from home.

One hundred years have gone and men again they came that way,
To find the answer to the mystery,
They found his body lying where it fell on that day,
Preserved in time for all to see,
No brave new world, no brave new world,
Lost in this place, and leave no trace.

Chorus:
Stranger in a strange land,
Land of ice and snow,
Trapped here in this prison, yeah!
Lost and far from home.
				

The words she said turned out why
desperation fills her eyes
Hold her in your arms
don't let go

When you taste defeat, when you loose again
Fight and win, never give in
Hold her in your arms
don't let go

BRIDGE:
That girl you need
Gonna knock you off your feet
That girl, you know
She'll never let you go

CHORUS:
That girl, That girl, That girl you need
That girl, That girl, That girl, That girl

Can you hear her call, call out your name
Think about you, cry without you
Hold her in your arm
Don't let go

Can you taste defeat, when you loose again
Fight and win, never give in
Hold her in your arms
don't let go

REPEAT BRIDGE

REPEAT CHORUS

SOLO

REPEAT CHORUS (x2)

You need!
				

Yeah it cost me a bundle
Trying to track you down
It's true
Yeah and it's the truth
I'm looking from town to town for you
You know you never offered much security
Do you know I'm gonna get you back?
You just wait and see

I'm never goin' back Juanita
I know you never got my call
I'm never goin' back Juanita
Never at all

Year I'm spending a long time
Trying to work it out for true
Yeah it's such small crime
Thirsting over you
Living in a Chelsea flat
Seems so lonely now
I just know I gotta get you back
I just don't know how

I'm never goin' back Juanita
I know you never got my call
I'm never goin' back Juanita
Never at all

(repeat)
Yeah I just got to tell you
I'm gonna leave it up to you
Yeah what more can I say?
What more can I do?
Living in a Chelsea flat
Seems so lonely now
I just know I gotta get you back
I just don't know how

I'm never goin' down on Juanita
Never gonna make that call
Never goin' down on Juanita
Never at all
I'm never goin' down on Juanita
Never gonna make that call
Never goin' down on Juanita
Two fingers at all
I'm never goin' back Juanita
Never goin' down on you Juanita
I'm never goin' back Juanita ...
(repeat)
				

Oooooh, allow me to introduce myself! 
My name is... well you know who that is, don't you, boys and girls! 
Yes! If you are listening now, which you should be, or you have just done... 
Wasted Years, ooooh an Adrian Smith composition, and Reach Out by a guy called Dave Calwell, 
and The Sheriff Of Huddersfield. 
Yeeeess, the sheriff, the one and only, 
Mr. Rodney Smallwood who we shall be speaking lots and lots and loads of verbal about very shortly. 
First of all, let me move this little scrap of paper out of the way, 
so I can speak to this stupid microphone without this.... 
(hits microphone)... stupid headphones falling off! 
Right! Yes. Adrian's first single as a writer... A-side of the band and all that. 
Bleedin' good stuff! 
Do you know that that song means that there is no good looking to lost opportunities in the past? 
Well who does, stupid people! Uh, you should always take hold of the present. 
Ah! That reminds me, I tied a bow on my boy last night, 
and that's what she said to me then... let's take hold of the present! 
Eh? Don't you get it? ...stupid people...

Anyway! Haha! Reach Out has Adrian singing, which is on the B-side, 
on the old mumbling jumbling vocals, and he used to play in a band called Urchin! 
Urchin... get out of it. And, he had a bloke in the band called Dave Calwell, 
and I believe Andy Barnett was in there, we'll talk him in a minute. 
Anyway, we had a little band called The Entire Population Of Hackney, see? 
And we did this little song, as we did... oh yes by the way, 
we've got Stranger In A Strange Land and That Girl and Juanita, (drums and sings)... 
"I'm never going back Juanita... I'm never going back.." 
Right! Now, that was written by a guy called Derek O'Neil and guy called Steve Barnacle. 
But first of all, yes, I'd better give you the release date, which was the 22nd of November 1986. 
And it reached the chart position of 22, the avenue... 
ah! Anyway, nevertheless, yes. Stranger In A Strange Land... 
I will mention this because That Girl and Juanita which were on the B-side of this 
were actually songs that we recorded ... with me and Adrian, just playing them on our own. 
Now not alot of people know that. But we did. The rest of the lazy gits in the band, 
they couldn't be bothered to learn the poxy song! 
So we went in there and recorded it ourselves! They said... 'Arry goes, "I don't f'king know this..." 
"Well go learn it!" He said, "well f'king why don't you record it, then I'll learn it." 
"Well that's a bit silly, isn't it?" 
He said, "No, go on. You get your f'king butts in there, the pair of you. 
You know the song, you do it!" So we did. And it turned out pretty good, didn't it? 
So those three songs were done like that.

Anyway, talking of... talking of That Girl by the way, for a second. 
A guy called Andy Barnett wrote that song. (unintelligible)... 
I went out the other night with this f'king red-head. 
No, no hair, just a f'king red head! Hahahaha! Anyway! Moving back, yes. 
Wasted Years, did mention it was released the 6th of September 1986? 
That one, by the way, reached the chart position of 18. 
And that wasn't bad was it? Nice one for H, first... first A-side, as I said, that he's written.

And then, moving on, it says here Sheriff Of Huddersfield 
as you very well know because you've just bloody listened to it, haven't you, you lucky lot. 
Now, I got to give you a little bit of history on our Rod Smallwood, 
our governor there, our second in command. 
Now, you picture this... there he is, living in the hills... Los... 
a little place called Los Angeles, a little speck on the map. 
Los f'king Angeles, it's called. 
And, he's living up in his little castle there, which is sort of up beyond the rainbow, see? 
Which is off the Sunset Strip. 
Anyway, he misses... he enormously misses his (unintelligible), his (unintelligible) peas, 
his pork pies, and his rugby, and his cricket. 
Now, as you know, over in the great US of A, 
they've got this f'king abbreviation sort of game, or sort of a mixture game of rugby, 
and they call it f'king football! 
Stupid twits, it ain't nothing like football, what is it! 
Anyway, nevertheless. He don't want to settle for that, he's wants all this... 
"Yooooo me old cronies, oooh jeezzz I missum all so much oh 
I'm drinking down at the pub five bloody pints of Yorkshire bitter with me pals, 
yooooo mamby pambies for me, oooooo."

So he misses it real big time, so there he is living out in the foothills of Los Angeles, 
so he thinks here I know what I'll do, 
"Yooooo, I'll get meself a bloody satelite and I'll stick it on top the bloody roof, 
and I can tune into all them bloody bleedin bojack company's coverage of the first, 
second, and third, and any bloody test match I can get my hands on." 
Plus all these rugby bits and pieces. 
So, he calls out this firm and he gets this satelite stuck on his roof, and the guy... 
"ah si amigo! I have it all working for you now! 
There's nothing wrong! It's all cool..." 
So and Rod goes, "Ok, well you f'king well wait there, let me go and have a look." 
And he presses the buttons, right? And what does he get? 
All the American programs.... 
all these poxy South American things with all these "whoabluaahabluahablee"...
all that stuff going on, and you don't know what the f'king hell mumbo jumling they're doing, 
and they don't even have a clue what a f'king rugby ball looks like. 
So, he's pissed off! "Yoooo bloody no good to me! 
You know how much bloody money I spent on this bloody piece of shit! 
Dooooo, I can't even get my bloody bleedin bojack company! 
Oooooo, I've had enough!" So, oh I should add, ladies and gentlemen, that he's moved back to England! 
Haha, God bless him. Anyway, he wanted us to go out there and live with him. 
You know, he said "Yoooo, come on guys... yoooo, ...(unintelligible stuff)... 
Doooo, I've got me own little corner of the rainbow, Ooooo, I've got my own mushie piece pizza, 
and all that stuff good." 
Dear old Kieth Wilford, god bless him, 
he used to have to record all the old test matches and rugby games 
and send them federal express overnight to Rod, cause he needed to keep up with it. 
You know, so it was real serious for him out there.

And so, we had this song that Adrian had written that we had recorded on the Somewhere In Time album... 
at that period of time. And we thought, well come on then, lets put some words to this song, 
cause we didn't actually have any words. 
So, as it transpires, we decided to write a song about Rod, and we'd call it Sheriff Of Huddersfield. 
By the way, I didn't tell ya... he actually is from Huddersfield, 
"Yoooo, bloody up north, yoooo," a hundred kilometres due north of Watford. 
Anyway! We all sat down, I was actually out of the room for about half an hour 
or fourty minutes before this... you know, before... 
I walked in the room, everybody was sitting down, roadies, Steve Gadd, you know, Mike Kenney, 
Robbie Price, and Bill Barkeley, they were all in there... 
couple of studio engineers that were friendly to the band and that, and anybody.... 
But mind you, really it was only the band and the crew cause they knew Rod, 
so everybody came up with these ideas, and sort of the lyrics were down together by the whole lot of us. 
So, theres a bit in the middle isn't it, where Roddy goes... Bruce actually, goes, 
"Yooooo, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Rodney and I'm immensely strong! 
I can lift five navies on the end of a shovel!" 
And it goes on like... well in that section, 
there's just a little spot where Bruce had to do that narrative bit, and he basically ad-libbed it. 
We had some... he had some notes, but he really just kind of blew through it, 
and it came out perfectly at the end of that sort of little solo section where Bruce does that little part. 
And so when he did it we were absolutely creased up, 
we could not believe it, we just started laughing and Martin Birch... 
Martin Jarr, the Gov'nor, or the animal, Birch, and all the good name and things we gave him over the years. 
He couldn't stop laughing, all the nobs were getting all butted out of place, 
and everyone was screaming and laughing and riotous. 
And thats how we sort of formulated The Sheriff Of Huddersfield.

But it was funny. And we thought, what's Rod gonna do... 
Oh whoah, by the way, one other thing about that was we couldn't let him know about it, 
cause we thought well if he find's out about it, he'll be onto the governors down at EMI there, 
and he'll be going, "Yoooo, bloody having none of that! Give us the bloody master tape! 
Yoooo, I'll bloody eat it! Give it to me now!" And so we thought well we'd better not let them... 
let him know. So we actually got in touch with the people at EMI and said to them, 
whatever you do, don't let Rod know there's a third track on this single. 
And keep it hidden from him, and you know don't let him hear anything until you've pressed it, 
cut the single, and it's all... cut it and pressed it and it's all ready to go. 
So, it was one of the best kept secrets in the business at that time, cause if he'd have found out, 
"Yooooo! That's it!" After he heard it, he said "That's it, yoooo! You're fired, the bloody lot of you! 
Yooooo, I don't want to be your manager! Yoooo." 
We said, "Sorry. We're gonna hold you to your f'king contract, so there!" 
Hahahaha! No, god bless him, he took it great... 
he sort of gave us a bit of a hard time for awhile, 
but I think he saw the error of his ways and he moved back to England 
and now he's happier and he lives happily ever after down the road with Missus Kathy. 
So! Hi Kath! How you doing!

Anyway! Yes, Stranger In A Strange Land, that's moving on,
I've only got a few minutes now to tell you about the sleeve for this here single. 
And, Stranger In A Strange Land was based on a story that Adrian had read in the newspaper 
about and expedition that got lost in the North Pole... silly gits! 
Course they f'king get lost, there's no signposts up there, are there! 
And they found some frozen bodies almost perfectly preserved... 
I wonder what parts were not preserved... hmmm... Anyway! 
Adrian, apparently he met one of the expedition who was a survivor.... 
I guess he must have been a bit old, eh, it was f'king years ago. 
I dunno. Anyway no, he bought the album because of the song, apparently, 
and now he's actually one of Maiden's top fans. 
So there, stuff that up your jaxie, see! Anyway, there we go, say no more. 
Yes, oh well yes, I was going to say about the sleeve for this here distinguished sleeve, 
as we looked at it we see Eddie, don't we? And he, who's he look like? 
Eh? "Go ahead punk! Make my day!" Buuuh! Yes, it's Clint Eastwood no less, himself! 
I wonder if he seen this, I wonder what he thought when he that grotesque Eddie, 
looking like him with the old cigarette in the gob. 
You know, standing in that stupid bar with all them silly twits around him from Star Wars 
and all that stuff, you know. 
Well there you go, Eddie was Clint Eastwood in that, well see. And yeah, good song, good single! 
And thanks to you guys, chart position 22 as I said, 
released the 22nd of November as I said, if I didn't... 
(hits microphone).... too bad! Don't you die on me this time, microphone... There you go!

Oh by the way, just to mention that Andy Barnett and Dave Calwell 
who both have songs on the B-sides of that there Wasted Years and Stranger In A Strange Land 
are actually performing, yes, no less performing... no you twits, playing the guitars on 
Adrian's solo album which is called As Soon As Possible, I guess, 
or Adrian Smith and Pals, or Azzap, or as about...ap, or whatever. 
You can work it out, you can come up with your own abbreviation for that. 
But, there you go, listen to that, sweet stuff! I'm going. 
I've been in here too bleeding long, I'm going down to the pub. 
You've gotta admit I deserve it by now, I've sat in this place and I've gotta go. 
That's all there is to it.
				

Give me the sense to wonder
To wonder if I'm free
Give me a sense of wonder
To know I can be me
Give me the strength to hold my head up
Spit back in their face
Don't need no key to unlock this door
Gonna break down the walls
Break out of this bad place

Can I play with madness - the prophet stared at his crystal ball
Can I play with madness - there's no vision there at all
Can I play with madness - the prophet looked and he laughed at me
Can I play with madness - he said you're blind too blind to see

I screamed aloud to the old man
I said don't lie don't say you don't know
I say you'll pay for your mischief
In this world or the next
Oh and then he fixed me with a freezing glance
And the hell fires raged in his eyes
He said do you want to know the truth son
- I'll tell you the truth
Your soul's gonna burn in the lake of fire

Can I play with madness - the prophet stared at his crystal ball
Can I play with madness - there's no vision there at all
Can I play with madness - the prophet looked and he laughed at me
Can I play with madness - he said you're blind too blind to see

Can I play with madness - the prophet stared at his crystal ball
Can I play with madness - there's no vision there at all
Can I play with madness - the prophet looked and he laughed at me
Can I play with madness - he said you're blind too blind to see
				

Bruce 'What the fuck is that?'
Nerd  'Hi, guys, are you in a band or something?
I mean it would be so cool
if you were in a band 'cos you're
Driving a big bus with band on the front of it'
Bruce  'Why don't you shut up and get on board will ya?'
Nerd   'Wow! I have it here you got a stereo and a microwave
And, and you got a beer,
I'd like a Heineken if you've got one'
that's real cool, that's great, yeah!'
Bruce  'Would you like to see Black Bart?'
Nerd   'Who's Black Bart?'
Bruce  'Let me introduce you'

Black Bart's seen it
Black Bart knows
Black Bart's done it
The Black Bart blues
Suspended in suspension
Many evil nights in Tennessee, and elsewhere
We all got to try the Black Bart blues

Black Bart's truckin' ain't what it seems
Black Bart's lookin'
Don't know where she's been
Maybe she's an acrobat
Spends her evenings dancing on a pole
We all got to try the Black Bart blues

Black Bart tried most anything
Black Bart liked it but he couldn't sing
So he asked me to tell ya
Try it for yourself and you will see
We all got to try the Black Bart blues

(spoken)
Bruce 'What did you do that for?'
Nerd  'I'm sorry, I just..., I guess I'm not used to...
Bruce 'Shut up and get on with it will you'

Black Bart's livin' across the ocean now
Black Bart's lookin' to come back somehow
So if you are a dancer,
You could dance his pole in May
That's a maypole

Black Bart's coming
Now Black Bart's gone
Black Bart did it so I wrote this song
Whatever and however,
In and out or several at a time mmm yes!
We all got to do the Black Bart blues
Here comes the guitar solo

We all got to try the Black Bart blues
Yowsa!  Yowsa!  Yowsa!
				

At a point below zero
There's no place left to go
Six hundred unknown heroes
Were killed like sleeping buffalo

Through the devil's canyon
Across the battlefield
Death has no companion
The spirit is forced to yield

There goes the bandolero
Through the hole in the wall
He's a coward but doesn't care though
In fact, he doesn't care at all

The general that's commanding
He's defending what he fears
While the troops they are depending
On reinforcements from the rear

If God is in the heavens
How can this happen here?
In His name, they used the weapons
For the massacre

There is a point below zero
Where the sun can see the land
Six hundred unknown heroes
Lay dead in the sand
				

Love is a razor and I walked the line on that silver blade
Slept in the dust with his daughter, her eyes red with
The slaughter of innocence
But I will pray for her
I will call her name out loud
I would bleed for her
If only I could see her now

Living on a razors edge
Balancing on a ledge
Living on a razors edge

The evil that men do lives on and on.....
The evil that men do lives on and on.....
The evil that men do lives on and on.....
The evil that men do lives on and on.....

Circle of fire my baptism of joy at an end it seems
The seventh lamb slain, the book of life opens before me
But I will pray for you
And some day I may return
Don't you cry for me
Beyond is where I learn
				

Walkin' through the city
Lookin' oh so pretty
I just gotta find my way
See the ladies flashin'
All their legs and lashes
I just gotta find my way

Well, you see me crawlin' through the bushes
With it open wide
What ya seein' girl?
Can you believe that feelin? Can you believe it?
Can you believe your eyes?
It's the real thing girl

Got me feelin' myself and reelin' around
Got me talking, girl, feel like walkin' around
				

Giving a swish with your arse in the air, don't you know what they're saying?
Charlotte you're so refined when you take all the love that they're giving.
Sticking with every man that you find, don't you know what they're after?
Charlotte you've got your legs in the air, don't you hear all the laughter?

Charlotte the Harlot show me your legs,
Charlotte the Harlot take me to bed.
Charlotte the Harlot let me see blood,
Charlotte the Harlot let me see love.

Taking so many men to your room, don't you feel no remorse?
You charge them a "fiver", It's only for starters.
And ten for the main course.
And you've got no feelings, they died long ago.
Don't you care who you let in?
And don't you know you're breaking the law with the service you're giving.

Charlotte the Harlot show me your legs,
Charlotte the Harlot take me to bed.
Charlotte the Harlot let me see blood,
Charlotte the Harlot let me see love.

There was a time when you left me standing there,
Picking up pieces of love off the floor.
Well Charlotte you left me alone in there,
To make your ends as a bloody whore.
Well Charlotte you told me you love me true,
Picking up pieces of love yesterday.
Well Charlotte you're draws are off color too
'Cause you're making love all day.
Giving a swish with your arse in the air, don't you know what they're saying?
Charlotte you're so refined when you take all the love that they're giving.
Sticking with every man that you find, don't you know what they're after?
Charlotte you've got your legs in the air, don't you hear all the laughter?

Charlotte the Harlot show me your legs,
Charlotte the Harlot take me to bed.
Charlotte the Harlot let me see blood,
Charlotte the Harlot let me see love.
				

...what ho! Nicko here! Welcome to Nicko's "Not alot of people know that, number 9!" 
Yes! This is the one that comes after eight or before ten, but if you don't have number eight, 
it comes after seven, doesn't it? 
Yes, well you stupid little people, if you do not have number eight or number seven or one of them's missing,
because if you don't have those little tokens in your sticky greasy palms 
and you don't have ten of them at the end of these ten weeks of releases of the re-released 
rather singles of Iron Maiden, you won't get your little box set, will you? 
No! Because as you know by now... I haven't told you but you should know... 
you will be the proud owner of a special box with some seriously good artwork from Mr. Derek Riggs. 
Yes! And you will then be able to put all those greasy horribly grubby pieces of vinyl in there 
which as you know will have those amazing pictures on them and the little artwork, packages, and sleeves...
and all that good stuff in that box! So, keep them all or else you'll be in severely good trouble! 
(hits the microphone)... Take that!

Now then! Now! You are severely in some trouble now, because you've got Can I Play With Madness, 
Black Bart Blues, Massacre! Mmmmmm! Can I Play With Madness written by Harry Harris, 
Black Bart Blues by Harry Harris and Bruce Dickinson, Massacre Lynott, Gorham, and Downey. 
Yes, released the 2nd of March 1988, and it got to... (taps microphone)... what was that? 
(taps microphone)... 
Three! Yes, number three! It debuted at number four in the charts, thanks to you lot out there, 
you horrible viscious mean people to go out and buy such a seriously good single as that 
and get it to number three. Hahaha! No serious, folks, hah! This, what can you say, debuted at number four.

Oh by the way on a more sombre note, and something like that... must say before we go much further... 
is that, as you may know, remember the video and all that good stuff, this here single. 
Well it was featuring a chap who I think we would all agree was one of the great comedians 
and one of the major contributors to the Monty Python mob 
and gang cohooting geezers out there doing all that mumbo jumbling stuff... 
with the big boot and stuff, squashing everybody... yes! Was Mr. Graham Chapman. 
Well, here's a little memorandum to him... ah, memorandum... 
in memory of him... memorandum... crazy, off the wall. 
No, I think what we gotta say is thanks to Graham for such a great contribution to comedy in general 
and everything, he's gonna be sadly missed. 
But this was one of his last film performances before he unfortunately died. 
So, lets hope he's having a good time up there, and we'll... 
undoubtedly we'll meet one another time somewhere else in a different place.

Anyway! Moving on to a lighter note, yes! You've got Black Bart Blues on this here single, 
and as you know after the old Black Bart Blues there's some various mumblings and jumblings from yours truly.
And these were not "not alot of people know that" mumblings and jumblings, 
these were stupid mumbling jumblings that were put together off of all the... 
at the ends of all the songs that we recorded over that album of Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son such as 
"hmm... they're gonna put this on a CD!.... I (unintelligible) solo! ...I said I seen'em..." 
and all that stuff right? Well you know what I mean, cause you just f'king listened to it, didnt ya? 
So there we were, picture this. We were at the playback after we had made the album, recorded it, 
all that good stuff, mixed it. And we were at the playback for the EMI people. 
And all the band were there, and all the press... Micky Wall and a few other people.... 
hello Micky! ...were all there, and they're doing all their old reviews of this album and stuff, 
so we played ... kinda played... now, you've gotta bear this in mind... 
none of the chaps, not one of them let me know what was going on, see? So I was clueless! 
I know, but as I usually... no now look, I was, I didn't have a clue. 
See? So there I was standing there... now you picture this... 
there's the PA system that we were playing this here stuff back through, behind me. 
And I'm looking down and all the band, and we'd already gone through the album and all this, 
and we'd got up to singles time, see?

Everybody was out, all the EMI bigwigs are there, you know, 
"yeah what ho, yes, eh pretty damn good album don't you think?"  
Well yes I do, pretty damn good, don't you think, yes." 
"Eh, shall we pay them money this week?" "(unintelligible) ...pretty good stuff, lets go." 
So! Anyway, having said that, there I am... this damn thing comes on the bleedin music box. 
After it finishes... Black Bart Blues finishes that is, there's "whooo, hello!" 
You know and there's all this stuff like answer phone stuff, 
I phone someone I forget where they got that from, oh it was the studio answer machine... 
"Hi Hi, Nicko here...hi." Anyway, you know, just stupid stuff. 
Then it starts, doesn't it. Well, can you imagine my face. 
There's all the band creased up falling all over the place laughing... 
they all thought it was the funniest thing since whatever. 
So there I am looking at this lot, and I'm kind of feeling a bit embarrassed you know, 
cause I'd not heard this, and I thought 
"what's all this mumbling jumbling coming out these here big speakers?" 
Then I looked over at the other side of the room... you know those... 
you know those faces that you get from the theatre, right, 
you know you've got the comedy chops and the thriller, you know, and the sad stuff, you know. 
There's one smiling and there's one looking like, you know, he's just lost the quid and found a tanner, 
you know. So, picture this... the room's one half crawling all over the floor laughing, 
and the other lot are like "eh, what's going on? What's this stuff coming in?" 
Can you imagine this is the world... EMI world people you know from all over the place. 
And I tell ya, when these people saw everybody going "Hahahahaho!" they're going "ho ha ha HA HA HAAHA! 
Oh what ho jeez, pretty funny hahhaa." 
So they also saw the funny side of it after awhile, but it took awhile I'll tell ya. 
And of course I was really really embarrassed to say the least, cause this was my lunacy stuff, 
and you you lot f'king got it in your sweaty greasy horrible little palms again, ain't ya!

Anyway! Enough of that, moving on. On the other side you've got The Evil That Men Do, 
or on the same side, I dunno how the bloody hell (unintelligible)!! (hits microphone)... 
Take that! The Evil That Men Do.... Written by H. Smith... Adrian Smith, B. Dickingson.... 
Paul Dickinson, and 'Arry Bomber Harris... Steve Harris. 
Hmm. Released the 1st of August 1988! And on the other side of that we had Prowler '88 
and Charlotte The Harlot written by Mister Murray and Harris! 
Yes, Dave came out of the closet for that one. Whoah! No, I didn't mean it badly, I mean Dave doesn't... 
when he writes a song he writes a cracker, doesn't he? 
But, he... he sort of... he writes one every couple of years, 
and he's got a couple in reserve at the moment, 
and so you lot might hear some of this in the next couple of months 
because I think he's got a cut for the new album that you ain't gonna believe.

Anyway! Evil That Men Do. Char... sh... sh... sh... I had one of them this morning... no, a shower. 
Chart position five, it debuted at number six. Do-de-de-de-do! 
Now, Prowler and Charlotte The Harlot we recorded... we re-re-re-re-re-recorded these because the band.... 
ah it's getting silly, I've gotta get out of here and get some fresh air, 
I mean you ain't gonna believe what it's like in this little room. 
Anyway, the band never were completely happy with the original versions, you know, from way back. 
And you lot, you greasy despicable mean mangy looking lot out there, 
you-ou-ou-ou been requesting some of this stuff from the early material to be recorded... 
re-recorded... with your's truly. Hahahaha! No, no, no, I'm joking! 
No, you know, re-recorded with Bruce and the... how's that, we'll put me in there too, so... 
Actually, Steve and I were actually discussing a few months back about all these old songs... 
the old stuff that we've recorded, about doing maybe in the future, 
keeping it the same format so basically the end of the day 
we might actually have the whole back issue of all the stuff with this sort of Maiden re-recorded, 
all the old stuff that we weren't on... myself, Bruce, and H. 
So there you go, you never know.

By the way, here's a joke for ya. I gotta tell you this before I leave, because I'm running out of time. 
And... yeah, it's like this, see. Superman and Batman talking to one another one day, so Superman says, 
"'Ere Bat." "Yeah, what, what's the matter Sup?" 
He said, "I was out having a little jaunt over at central park the other day", he said, 
"I had a touch of the (unintelligible), and you'll never guess what!" 
He said, "What't that Sup?" He said, "I f'king looked down... strike me down, 
there's Wonder Woman wiggling about, legs up in the air, lassoo, all that old stuff... 
ooh, she must be having a good time... f'king hell, what's she doing!" 
He says, Batman says, "Well what did you do?" He said, 
"Well I got f'king serious touch of the hardon, didn't I? 
It nearly shot me out to Jupiter!" He said, "Did it?" He said, "No, I got as far as Mars!" 
He said, "F'king hell, that was a touch, wasn't it?" He said, "More than that! 
I came back I had such a bone-on, there she was wiggling and wobbling out on the grass, 
f'king legs up in the air... oh, she was rubbing her dun great tits! 
Rubbing her thighs... and she was just kinda caressing... oh! I couldn't resist!" 
Batman says, "Well what did you do then, Sup?" He said, "Well, I unzipped my boy... you know, my fly, 
and I got my boy out and I f'king shot damn about a thousand feet!" 
He said, "Did ya?" He said, "Yeah! f'king great!" Batman says, "Well, what happened then?" 
He said, "Well, it f'king landed on top of her!" He said, "Did ya!" 
He said, "F'king right!" He said "I bet Wonder Woman was real surprised, weren't she?" 
He said, "Yeah, not half as surprised as the bleedin Invisible Man!" 
Hahahahahahah! Hahahah! (drums something) Oh dear! Nevermind! I'm off! I'm going! Tada!
				

Feel the sweat break on my brow
Is it me or is it shadows that are
Dancing on the walls
Is this a dream or is it now
Is this a vision or normality I see
Before my eyes

I wonder why I wonder how
That it seems the powers getting stronger
Every day
I feel a strength an inner fire
But I'm scared I won't be able to control it anymore

There's a time to live and a time to die
When it's time to meet the maker
There's a time to live but isn't it strange
That as soon as you're born you're dying

Just by looking through your eyes
He could see the future penetrating right
In through your mind
See the truth and see your lies
But for all his power couldn't foresee his own demise

There's a time to live and a time to die
When it's time to meet the maker
There's a time to live but isn't it strange
That as soon as you're born you're dying...
... and reborn again?
				

On the run kill to eat
You're starving now you're dead on your feet
Going all the way nature's beast
Do what I want as I please

Run fight to breathe it's tough
Now you see me now you don't
Break the walls I'm coming out

Not a prisoner I'm a free man
And my blood is my own now
Don't care where the past was
I know where I'm going ... out

If you kill me it's self defence
If I kill you then I call it vengeance
Spit in your eye I will defy
You'll be afraid when I call out your name

I'm not a number I'm a free man
I'll live my life how I want to 
You'd better scratch me from your black book
Cos I'll run rings round you
				

Can't understand what is happening to me,
This isn't real, this is only a dream,
But I never have felt, no I never have felt this way before,
I'm looking down on my body below,
I lie asleep in the midst of a dream,
Is it now could it be that the angel of death has come for me?
I can't believe that really my time has come,
I don't feel ready, there's so much left undone,
And it's my soul and I'm not gonna let it get away.

Chorus:
Heaven can wait,
Heaven can wait,
Heaven can wait,
Heaven can wait til another day.

[Reapeat chorus]

I have a lust for the Earth below
And Hell itself is my only foe,
'Cause I've no fear of dying,
I'll go when I'm good and ready,
I snatch a glimpse of the light's eternal rays,
I see a tunnel, I stand amazed,
At all of the people standing there in front of me,
Into the paths of rightness I'll be led,
Is this the place where the living join the dead?
I wish I knew this was only just a nightmare.

[Chorus *2]

Take my hand, I'll lead you to the promised land,
Take my hand, I'll give you immortality,
Eternal youth, I'll take you to the other side,
To see the truth, the path for you is decided.

Oh Oh * lots.

My body tingles, I feel so strange,
I feel so tired, I feel so drained,
And I'm wondering if I'll ever be the same again,
Is this in limbo or in Heaven or Hell?
Maybe I'm going down there as well,
I can't accept my soul will drift forever.
I feel myself floating back down to Earth,
So could this be the hour of my rebirth?
Or have I died or will I wake from dreaming?

[Chorus]
				

Infinite dreams I can't deny them
Infinity is hard to comprehend
I couldn't hear those screams
Even in my wildest dreams

Suffocation waking in a sweat
Scared to fall asleep again
Incase the dream begins again
Someone chasing I cannot move
Standing rigid nightmare's statue
What a dream when will it end
And will I transcend?

Restless sleep the minds in turmoil
One nightmare ends another fertile
Getting to me so scared to sleep
But scared to wake now, in too deep

Even though its reached new heights
I rather like the restless nights
It makes me wonder it makes me think
There's more to this I'm on the brink
It's not the fear of what's beyond
It's just that I might not respond
I have an interest almost craving
But would I like to get too far in?

It can't be all coincidence
Too many things are evident
You tell me you're an unbeliever
Spiritualist? Well me I'm neither
But wouldn't you like to know
The truth
Of what's out there to have the proof
And find out just which side
You're on
Where would you end in Heaven or
In Hell?

Help me. Help me to find my true
Self without seeing the future
Save me, save me from torturing
Myself even within my dreams

There's got to be just more to it
Than this
Or tell me why do we exist
I'd like to think that when I die
I'd get a chance another time
And to return and live again
Reincarnate, play the game
Again and again and again
				

You walk through the subway, his eyes burn a hole in your back
A footstep behind you, he lunges prepared for attack
Scream for mercy, he laughs as he's watching you bleed
Killer behind you, his blood lust defies all his needs
My innocent victims are slaughtered with wrath and despise
The mocking religion of hatred that burns in the night
I have no one, I'm bound to destroy all this greed
A voice inside me compelling to satisfy me
I can see what a knife's meant to be
And you'll never know how I came to foresee, see, see
(Solo: Dave Murray)
(Solo: Adrian Smith)
My faith in believing is stronger than lifelines and ties
With the glimmer of metal, my moment is ready to strike
Death call arises, a scream breaks the still of the night
Another tomorrow, remember to walk in the light
I have found you, and now there is no place to run
Excitement shakes me, oh God help me what have I done?
Ooh yeah, I've done it again!
You walk through the subway, my eyes burn a hole in your back
A footstep behind you, he lunges prepared for attack
Scream for mercy, he laughs as he's watching you bleed
Killer behind you, my blood lust defies all my needs
Oooh look out, I'm coming for you
Hahahahahah!
				

Take a look in the pool and what do you see
In the dark depths there faces beckoning me
Can't you see them it's plain for all to see
They were there oh I know you don't believe me.

Oh...I've never felt so strange
But...I'm not going insane.

I've no doubt that you think I'm off my head
You don't say but it's in your eyes instead
Hours I spend out just gazing into that pool
Something draws me there I don't know what to do.

Oh...they drain my strength away
Oh...they're asking me to stay.

Nightmares...spirits calling me
Nightmares...they won't leave me be.

All my life's blood is slowly draining away
And I feel that I'm weaker every day
Somehow I know I haven't long to go
Joining them at the bottom of the pool.

Now...I feel they are so near
I...begin to see them clear

Nightmares...coming all the time
Nightmares...Will give me peace of mind.

Now it's clear and I know what I have to do
I must take you down there to look at them too
Hand in hand then we'll jump right into the pool
Can't you see not just me they want you too.

Oh...we'll drown together
It...will be forever.

Nightmares...forever calling me
Nightmares...Now we rest in peace.
				

Ah Ha! Ha! Ha! Haaaa! Maybe I can get out of here now! Oh, this is Nicko's "not alot of
people know that, number ten". When I finish this I can go home! Ahahaha! Ah oh, why do I
want to go home? Oh I don't know, I've been in here so long, oh I'm stuck to the chair and
all that kind of good stuff... And I've had so much fun mumbling on to you guys and telling
you jokes and all that stuff and this is the last one! Well at least I can go and have a bath.
Hmmmmm, it's about that time of the year anyway. Hahahaha! 

Well! You despicable heathenistic civilictic god knows what else... mumbling jumbling oooh
big single buying public have got in your greasy sweaty horrible... oooh! How is your stereo
still spinning around and that little needle bouncing up and down in all that grime? You have
got The Clairvoyant, Prisoner, Heaven Can Wait, released the 7th of November 1988
chart position number six! Yes! And on the other side you've got Infinite Dreams, Killers,
Still Life - Harris and Murray wrote that song, debuted number twelve, got to number six
again! My goodness! And that was released the 6th of November 1989! Oh, here, have you
just noticed something... something a bit weird about that? Yeah, I don't know whether that
Eddie's got anything to do with that Seventh Son business, but those were both released...
those singles, within one year of each other to the day almost. Released 7th of November
'88, Infinite Dreams released 6th of November '89. A bit strange and all that... 

Well look at that! Let's go on, I don't really... I started getting tingles up the back, I don't like
that. Dave? Oh, get out of here. Anyway, no. Hahaha! Jeez, four top ten singles in a year to
two years actually. By the time you lot are listening to this, which is February, I mean as we
know Can I Play With Madness was released the 2nd of March '88 and we're at the sort of
end of February. That's close to two years isn't it? That's bloody good I think, considering
we had a year off. I mean, god bless you lot out there, I mean, you know, to not actually
have done anything in a year and we pulled out like a single, you know, Infinite Dreams...
And by the way that was off the new Maiden England video which we shall talk about in a
minute... you know, after a year you pushed it up to number six for us, and god bless you all,
because it's nice to know that you ain't forgotten us. You know. 

Anyway! The Clairvoyant, Prisoner... all live renditions, my goodness, of the most severe
kind! I should know, I was there wasn't I! Sooty was there too, did you notice? Anyway,
enough of him, stupid soddy bear, he doesn't know even how to talk or anything else, stupid
git! Anyway! The Clairvoyant, Prisoner, and Heaven Can Wait were recorded in front of
you lot as I said I believe earlier on. If I didn't, as I said again on previous "not alot of people
knows that" f'king too f'king bad! A hundred and seven thousand of ya! Wooah! At
Donnington on August the 20th 1988, you can lucky people, you've not only got the live
renditions, you were there, probably! And there was Kiss, David Lee Roth, all kinds of
people. My goodness, what a great day. Anyway, those as I say were recorded and were a
special little single release to you from us lot celebrating the 20th of August for us, because
that was... I told you this, we got on stage 20 minutes early for that gig. We got a guy called
Dicky Bell, my goodness the Das Furher Bell we called him because he's like Hitler - right
asshole! Anyway hah! He comes in the dressing room and he goes, "right you horrible lot,
you musician slime, you scumbags, you sleazeballs, get on that stage now, it's time to do your
show, you lazy bastards!" All that sort of stuff, right? "Oh good afternoon Dick, well good
evening Dick..." you know, (unintelligible)... of we go. We were convinced that he'd actually
come in the dressing room at Donnington that evening and told us to get on stage. But he
actually didn't. And we got on stage and he goes, "Right! What the f'king hell are you lot
doing up here? Piss of my stage, get up here when I tell ya!" We said, "Look! Rumour has it
we're supposed to be doing a gig. Anyway you stupid prat, you told us to get up here." "No
I f'king didn't!" he said. We said, "You f'king did!" He said "I f'king didn't!" Boof! Stuck us in
the eyeballs! Take that for openers! "Look here Dick, why the hell we up here for if
somebody didn't come around..." He said, "You fucking show him off to me, I'll have a word
with him... tell my band to come up here when I ain't ready!" So, we get on stage, as I said,
ten minutes early and we had ten minutes before we had to get, you know, actual showtime.
So, cause we get up there and get warmed up the various bits, twiddly old exercises, Steve
checks is bass, all the boys... and Bruce goes round the back and does the various gobbing
in the old facial mask thing and all that, and ah ha! Oh we all do the bits, you know. 

So we actually had an extra ten minutes on stage looking at you lot standing out there waiting
for us lot to come up and do it, and so.... (farting noises).... "You nervous?" "No." "What
was that?" "Somebody step on a duck?" "I dunno!" The air turned blue! We had all these film
crews around there trying to film us, and they soon left, hahaha! They got out of there quick,
they knew how to get out while the going was good, you know what I mean. 

So what can I say man, what a fantastic experience! Something that will live with me for the
rest of my life, no doubt about that. And, I mean we played like a cat on a tin roof, and we
all thought it was a blazing gig. But we later found out and we thought the tape was running
slow when we recorded it but nevertheless... enough said about that! Hahaha! 

Moving on to Infinite Dreams, Killers, and Still Life! Ohh god it's tormenting me! I'm
sitting here, I'm strapping myself into this chair with the lead and cable from these
headphones trying to restrain myself! My goodness! It was only a year ago that I played
these songs for you with the band and all! I miss it so much! Oh gosh, it debuted at twelve
and it got to number six, didn't it, not so many weeks ago! Released the 6th of November
1989, my gosh, one year to the day of The Clairvoyant's release. A bit uncanny, as I say.

Nevertheless! These three songs were taken from the band's gig at the NEC in Birmingham,
which was recorded around I think Novermber the 28th, 1988... 27th it was... and the 28th,
we did two gigs! Hah ha ho! So, what can I say? We listened... now actually Steve... let me
say this, Steve directed and edited this here Maiden England video, and he set up all the
camera angles and told the guys what he wanted, and it took six months to edit this piece of
work, 90 minutes worth of music. And I've got to say this, he done the most stunning job I
think I've ever seen, and I'm saying that... I'm saying that because... I didn't have to crawl to
him because I did that last week, I've got a brown tongue and warm kneepads! Hahahah!
No, serious piece of work! No, as you will agree with me, it is, isn't it? I mean, I haven't seen
a music video that's so clear, so good, and well put together. It's really... I'm proud to have
been on that, because it's f'king great. And we decided actually, when we heard the
soundtrack we were really so tempted to realease it as a live album again, cause it was really
good and Martin recorded the band so well in that room, it was really nice. But we settled
for taking a single off of it, because we thought, you know, it wasn't the right time to do
another, you know, a second live album. But you know, it means it's well... I guess for the
fans without access to the video will have a souvenier of the '88 tour won't you? Because
you can stick this lot on your f'king stereo, as long as it ain't screwed up with all the sticky
horrible debauched singles you stuck on prior to this, as long as your stilus still bounces over
the grooves and does all that good stuff it'll be allright won't it? 

Hey, by the time you've got this lot in your hands, by the way, we shall have been in the
studio working on a brand new album! Yes! Oooh, it's gonna be out later this year. And we
may, or we may not, you never know, have another four top ten singles, thanks to you lot.
And I'm going to work it out and say to them... say to you lot, it's about that time to wind this
up. I mean, I've had such a great time speaking to you.... you... you lot! F'king hell! Oh dear,
we'll have to do this again sometime, I'd like to. That's it! No, and... basically thanking you
lot.... you greasy slugs! You.... you grubby lucky little people! No I'm kidding, hahaha!
Thanks for ten great fantastic Maidenesque years of boogalooing through the, you know, the
lunchaloms of this business... getting up there and giving it all the good old heavy metal welly,
which we need more of! Lots of big heavy metal welly's everywhere, squashing all that grief
stuff, all that rap shit and all that good crap that's out there that that Bleedin Bojack
Company play all the time and that fucking Mighty Tight Veg cause they haven't got a clue
anymore have they? Anyway! Toodle-do to you lot! Thanks alot to the gov'nor, 'Arry
Harris, and Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson, and the gov'nor Rod
Smallwood, Andy Taylor, and all the boys... Tony Wiggins, Dick Bell, and everybody else
who's involved, my drum tech especially, Gadsy! And EMI, for whom without them I
wouldn't be here talking to you lot, mumbling and jumbling, and you wouldn't have had f'king
half a dozen, seven or eight, f'king albums of the band, all that good stuff, to be mumbling
jumbling and listening to. So, as I said... oh yeah, is it, no... I was going to tell you a joke, but
I've decided I've run out of them, and they ain't very funny anyway, so bollocks! That's all I
can say to that! And as I say, as 'Arry Harris says, as he says it very well, there's only one
'um, and that's fuck'um! So, god bless ya, and I'll see ya... if I don't see you in the spring, as I
said on one of the other "not alot of people know that", I'll see you in a mattress!