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Iron Maiden "Iron Maiden"
Released on April 14th, 1980
40 Years ago today 🤟

Track listing :

1) Prowler
2) Remember Tomorrow
3) Running Free
4) Phantom of the Opera
5) Transylvania (Instrumental)
6) Strange World
7) Charlotte the Harlot
8) Iron Maiden

Line-up :

- Stephen Percy "Steve" Harris (Bass, Backing vocals)
- Dennis Stratton (Guitars, Backing vocals)
- Clive Ronald Burr (Drums / R.I.P. 2013)
- David Michael "Dave" Murray (Guitars)
- Paul Andrews "Di'Anno" (Vocals)

- All tracks composed by Steve Harris (Tracks 1 to 6, 8), Paul Di'Anno (Tracks 2, 3) and Dave Murray (Track 7).

- Front cover illustration by Derek Riggs. Artwork by Cream (Sleeve design company from Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Photography by Terry Walker and Yuka Fujii.

- When first issued in 1980, the album received immediate critical acclaim, with Geoff Barton, reviewing the album in Sounds, writing, "Heavy metal for the '80s, its blinding speed and rampant ferocity making most plastic heavy rock tracks from the '60s and '70s sound sloth-like and funeral-dirgey by comparison."

- Since its release, Iron Maiden has continued to receive praise from reviewers, with AllMusic proclaiming that the album "would still rank as a landmark even if the Dickinson years had never happened" as well as "no better place to hear how both punk and prog rock informed the new wave of British heavy metal". In addition, Sputnikmusic describes it as "one of the top debut albums in the world of heavy metal", containing "the raw, aggressive power which defines the early years of the band".

- Although Iron Maiden have since criticised the quality of the album's production, the release was met with critical and commercial success, peaking at No. 4 in the UK Albums Chart as well as achieving prominence for the band in mainland Europe.

- Iron Maiden is one of two Iron Maiden albums listed in Robert Dimery's book, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (The Number of the Beast is the other).

- In 2017, it was ranked 13th on Rolling Stone's list of "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time".

Recording information :

Recorded at Kingsway Recording Studio, London, United Kingdom. Engineered by Martin Levan. Mixed at Morgan Studios, London, United Kingdom. Produced by Will Malone. Label : EMI Records.

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