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Titolo: 17/09/2004 Iron Maiden Release 'The Early Days' DVD and announce tour plans for 2005

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"The History Of IRON MAIDEN - Part 1; The Early Days" Double DVD is to be released on Monday 8th 
November on EMI appropriately almost exactly 25 years to the day since the band first signed to the 
British label.
'The Early Days' is a unique collection of archive material packed onto 2 DVD's that covers the 
beginnings of the band's career from the struggle to get gigs in East End pubs through to becoming 
within just 5 years a band capable of headlining arenas anywhere around the World and achieving this 
without any radio support to speak of at any time.
This isn't simply a band history but more the intense and personal voyage of a remarkable group of 
individuals who shared one vision and worked hard to achieve that goal without any compromises along 
the way. It also demonstrates the band's unique relationship with their fans, the foundation for 
which was laid right back then .at the beginning.
The first DVD contains nearly 2 hours of archive Maiden live concert rarities that demonstrate the 
energy and power that propelled them to the forefront of World Metal
The first program of DVD1 is Maiden's first ever concert video 'Live at The Rainbow' which was 
produced by EMI back in 1980 shortly after they were signed and was one of the first ever concert 
VHS releases. This title has not been widely available for some time so fans can now see the band 
fronted by Paul Di'Anno singing such classics as 'Killers' and 'Phantom Of the Opera' .
The rest of the footage on DVD1 consists of two shows neither of which has ever been fully 
available. Beast Over Hammersmith was filmed at the beginning of the Beast On the Road tour that to 
many fans at the time was the first introduction to Bruce Dickinson. Songs like "Hallowed be Thy 
Name" and "Number of The Beast" have proved to become regular features in the Maiden live set since 
this was first recorded in 1982 and now thanks to some modern reconstructive work fans can enjoy the 
highlights from this rare footage.
To complete the first disk is 'Live At Dortmund', a massive concert in Dortmund in December 1983 
originally filmed for German TV with Maiden headlining a stellar Metal bill as part of their World 
Piece Tour. Originally the show was broadcast live across Europe but has not been seen since until 
now. Research into the footage shows that all the original film has since been destroyed so this is 
truly now a rare piece of Maiden history.
DVD 2 includes the feature length (90 minutes) Documentary titled "The Early Days" with extensive 
interviews and photographs and historical detail.
The documentary which forms the basis for the title contains over 90 minutes of extraordinary 
interviews with the colourful cast of characters involved with Maiden over this early period - 
current band members, a whole host of ex band members, managers, agents, journalists, photographers, 
EMI execs past and present, crew, promoters, fans - all of whom have their own perspective of the 
events and process that led up Maiden's Worldwide success, and the fun and hard work involved.
It chronicles their early struggles in the mid to late 70's in London's East End where the hardest 
thing was just keeping a line-up together for more than a couple of pub gigs, through the early 
successes of their eponymous debut album and "Killers", their first World Tours, the colossal impact 
on the Rock World that was "The Number of the Beast" and through to the end of their first full 
headlining World Tour - 'Piece of Mind' - in 1983.
A very honest and revealing (but also entertaining) insight into just what it was like early on in 
the World of Eddie and Maiden, its also a guide book to the problems faced and attitude and talent 
needed to get a band off the ground and to the pinnacle of Worldwide success - and then to keep it 
there!!! It is a fascinating and compelling story for any music fan.
Also on Disk 2 is a 30 min TV Documentary by LWT shown in 1980 on the rise of Heavy Metal featuring 
the band and footage of them performing at The Marquee in 1979 and an insight into the new breed of 
music fan that arose out of the ashes of the punk era.
Possibly one of the rarest items on The Early Days is a 45 minute home video recorded by the band of 
them performing at The Ruskin Arms in East London. This footage was originally feared lost forever 
however by complete chance a surviving copy was found in Steve's Harris' home and the delicate tape 
was processed and now included in it's entirety. With the exception of a very short clip used in 12 
Wasted Years this has never been seen by anyone except the band themselves making it such a rare gem 
for the collector.
Extras include rare TV appearances like their first 'Live' performance on Top Of The Pops and Rock 
and Pop on German TV, Special photo gallery revealing never before seen personal pictures taken by 
the band and crew and a thorough overview and detail of all the bands artwork, tour programmes and 
imagery both on tour and their studio releases, plus of course some hidden goodies.
"The Early Days" is the first of what will eventually become a series of DVD's to be released over 
the coming years. Each release will extensively cover a period of the bands career to become a 
collection of not only re-mastered footage but also previously unavailable and unseen material taken 
directly from the bands own personal collections, along with extensive interviews.
Says Steve Harris, 'We haven't had any of our original live videos available for some time so when 
we started looking at this project we thought lets make each DVD a real document of not only the 
shows but everything around that time. Everybody has been digging through the archives to make this 
the most complete it can possibly be and I'm really proud of the end result. A lot of the footage we'd 
thought had been lost for good like the home video of the Ruskin Arms. Both disks contain some real 
collectors stuff. For example we filmed the first Hammersmith Odeon shows with Bruce but because of 
various lighting issues we never felt that it was really good enough to use. It just never really 
captured the excitement of show or the spectacle that it was - but by the time it was on film we 
could do nothing about it. However with technology being what it is now we've revisited and repaired 
some of the problems with the original masters to get it to a point where we can finally keep our 
fans happy by making it available."
'I have to say that I've really had a lot of fun recalling the early beginnings and we've managed to 
interview just about everybody who was ever part of Maiden from the very first line up in 1975 
through to the band that everyone knows now. I found things I thought I had lost over the years and 
sometimes the smallest thing can remind you of exactly why you started doing this in the first place 
and the struggle everyone went through. I think the fans are going to love this.'
Plans are currently being put together for Iron Maiden play some festival and stadium dates next 
summer and bring the 'Early Days' back to life. The band will be linking in the look and feel of 
their beginnings in the stage set as well as performing some classic tracks from that time which 
haven't been heard live for a while!!. Dates will start to be announced in the near future
Says manager Rod Smallwood, 'On reviewing all these great shows it just reminded us all of the great 
songs that the band have in their repertoire. It's always difficult when touring a new album to 
include too many of the older songs which the fans always ask for as the band would end up playing 
for 4 or 5 hours! The plan for next year is to recreate the power and energy and look of their early 
shows and eventually continue this idea with each subsequent DVD release.'
The next in series will be the spectacular 'Live After Death' which will cover the bands legendary 
four sold out shows at Long Beach Arena in 1984 through to the Somewhere in Time tour in 1987.
The full contents of THE EARLY DAYS are -
Documentaries (115 min)
The Early Years - 90 minute Feature Documentary
20th Century Box - Heavy Metal (1980) - 25 minute feature.
Live At The Rainbow - 1981 (35 mins)
Ides Of March
Wrathchild
Killers
Remember Tomorrow
Transylvania
Phantom Of The Opera
Iron Maiden
Live At Hammersmith 1982 - Beast On The Road (45 mins)
Murders in The Rue Morgue
Run to The Hills
Children Of The Damned
Number Of The Beast
22 Acacia Avenue
Total Eclipse
The Prisoner
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Iron Maiden
Live at Rock & Pop Festival 1983 Dortmund - World Piece Tour (35 mins)
Sanctuary
The Trooper
Revelations
Flight Of Icarus
22 Acacia Avenue
Number Of The Beast
Run To The Hills
Live at The Ruskin Arms - 1980 (40 mins)
Sanctuary
Wrathchild
Prowler
Remember Tomorrow
Running Free
Transylvania
Another Life
Phantom Of The Opera
Charlotte the Harlot
Extras (40 mins)
Live on Top Of the Pops - Running Free and Women In Uniform
Live on Rock and Pop - Germany TV - Running Free
Promo videos - Women In Uniform / Run To The Hills / Number Of The Beast/ Flight Of Icarus / The 
Trooper
Rare and unseen Photo gallery featuring over 150 pictures and images
Full tour listings/ Discography/Tour programmes and artwork galleries.
Commento : Non vedo l'ora che arriva l'8 Novembre!!! :-))) 

Hmmmmmmm.... sounds promising.
^M^
-- 
"We live as we dream: alone" - Joseph Conrad

 Commento : Non vedo l'ora che arriva l'8 Novembre!!! :-)))
Commento: hai sbagliato la congiuntivite!! :D
Killer

> Commento : Non vedo l'ora che arriva l'8 Novembre!!! :-)))
non vedo l'ora che ARRIVI, in italiano si dice così... eccheccazzo
almeno quando scrivete un congiuntivo al mese beccatelo... ma non
senti come suona male "non vedo l'ora che arriva"?
ciao ciao

 non senti come suona male "non vedo l'ora che arriva"?
E' vero! Suona talmente male che sembra che sia uno degli Hammerfall!
Daniele
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Io sono d'accordo sull'uso corretto della lingua italiana, anzi penso
sia anche utile per una persona correggere i propri errori
grammaticali (nella vita saper scrivere serve sempre) ma.....
.. per la netiquette (o come si scrive ;) e' maleducazione correggere
gli errori grammaticali di un post, e sopratutto fare un reply SOLO
per far notare un errore di questo tipo, almeno che non si posti in
it.cultura.accademiadellacrusca, immagino.
 D'altronde il messaggio era comprensibile comunque.
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Elwood (Peter S.)

 Io sono d'accordo sull'uso corretto della lingua italiana,
Ma piantala maledetto esterofilo!!!!!!!
;-)
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Urizen
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 Io sono d'accordo sull'uso corretto della lingua italiana
Anche io, di solito metto grappa
Killer

 E' vero! Suona talmente male che sembra che sia uno degli Hammerfall!
Eheheheh, ma attento a chi becchi, perche' uno "che suona" c'e' anche li'
:-)
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Alessio "The Sentinel"