They sounded incredible and even people who weren't Iron Maiden fans were getting into it.
Tributes have been paid by musicians including one-time Deep Purple bandmate Joe Satriani, Iron Maiden and Anthrax.
The day after the gun incident, Iron Maiden plays to a capacity crowd at Sao Paulo's Palmeiras Stadium.
And we get together and it works because the one thing that puts us all together is Iron Maiden.
Dickinson, who joined Iron Maiden in 1981, said he was lucky his day job left him time to perform.
Are they in love with Iron Maiden or is it heavy metal as a music genre that's really captured their hearts?
So things went through the '70s and '80s, when British bands like Deep Purple, Iron Maiden and Motorhead ruled the scene.
The band released two albums -- "Iron Maiden" (1980) and "Killers" (1981) -- before Bruce Dickinson replaced Paul Di'Anno as lead singer.
The Iron Maiden frontman, 52, who holds a commercial pilot's licence, will captain the Astraeus Airlines plane from Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
The helmet he designed was an orange-and-yellow number featuring Eddie, the angry-looking skeleton mascot of metal band Iron Maiden, in racing goggles.
She said Iron Maiden's sheer hard work has also won them fans.
"Usually at conferences, it's a room full of suits, and I'm in my Iron Maiden T-shirt, " said Dr. Snell, who holds a doctorate in social psychology.
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Bruce Moran, who books CIE's international talent from New York, has learned that older, harder-edged bands like Iron Maiden and the Scorpions play well in Mexico.
Bruce Moran, who books CIE's international talent from New York, has learned that older, harder-edged bands, such as Iron Maiden and the Scorpions, play well in Mexico.
As to the actual treatment, if anyone has the idea such chambers are little bigger than a medieval iron maiden, the centre's largest, the Krug, easily defeats preconceptions.
Over the years, the gritty neighbourhood has bred talent from glam rocker Marc Bolan to members of metal overlords Iron Maiden and Def Leppard to Brit Award-winning rapper Plan B.
The rock emphasis of the final day is a nod to Reading's past in the late 1970s and 1980s - when bands like Uriah Heep, Whitesnake and Iron Maiden could be found on the festival's stages.
Marjane is an instinctive foe of the system, though her idea of rebellion is to listen to Iron Maiden in her bedroom, and a period spent as a student in Vienna ends in frustration and woe.
Iron Maiden may have been formed in a London pub the 1970s, but it wasn't until 1985 when they took to the stage at the original "Rock in Rio" concert that their South American fan base began to swell.
Tickets for concerts in Brazil are due to go on sale next week -- along with seats for four concerts which are still to be announced, in four more countries, two of which will host Iron Maiden for the first time.
The tour resumes on February 9, when they'll pack up their version of a tour bus, Ed Force One, a 757 airliner decked out in Iron Maiden logos and take again to the skies for the first scheduled concert in Dubai.
"Iron Maiden has never relied on radio play or TV or the conventional forms of media that a lot of music bands rely on, " says Sam Dunn, a documentary filmmaker and Maiden fan who's making a film of the group's "Somewhere Back in Time" tour.
Highlights included the return of the open pit (unlike the Ozzfest which only allowed a 1000 or so into a cordoned off area), great sets from Iron Maiden, Audioslave, Mudvayne, Disturbed (once the mic was switched on), covered areas where people could escape the sun, watch films and play on games consoles, and two stages offering a variety of different styles.
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