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To: Mind Freed

Rime of the Ancient Mariner - based off the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem of the same name

The Prisoner - based off the TV show

The Trooper - based off a battle in the Crimean War

To Tame A Land - based off Frank Lloyd Herbert’s “Dune”

Tailgunner - self-explanatory

Murders In The Rue Morgue - seems based off the Edgar Allen Poe poem of the same name

Alexander the Great - self-explanatory

Flight of Icarus - self-explanatory

Quest for Fire - ancient times

Aces High - air battle for Britain

Powerslave - ancient Egyptian times

Stranger in a Strange Land - partially based off a meeting Adrian Smith had with a mountain climber survivor

The Fugitive - based off the movie of the same name

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album - centered around the concept of folklore


25 posted on 04/21/2009 9:24:58 AM PDT by wastedyears (April 21st, 2009 - International Iron Maiden Day)
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What their stage looked like for the most recent tour.


27 posted on 04/21/2009 9:28:29 AM PDT by wastedyears (April 21st, 2009 - International Iron Maiden Day)
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To: wastedyears

I don’t know another band which has brought in literature, myth.folklore, and history into their music to this degree, and they have been doing it since album 1 or 2.

I wonder which member(s) of the group are so interested in these topics.


40 posted on 04/21/2009 9:38:35 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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