Janick Gers played the solo on Real Live Tour due to Smith leaving Iron Maiden in 1990. It was the final song of the group's encore set on The Book of Souls World Tour, the first time it has ever been part of an encore performance.Īdrian Smith has performed the song live with his bands Psycho Motel and Smith/Kotzen, performing the lead vocals himself. It was featured on Somewhere On Tour, Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour, Real Live Tour (only on few dates), The Ed Hunter Tour, Somewhere Back in Time World Tour and Maiden England World Tour. "Wasted Years" is one of three tracks from Somewhere in Time that have been played on more than two concert tours, the other two being the album's second single, "Stranger in a Strange Land", and "Heaven Can Wait". The song is composed in the key of E minor. 5"'s epilogue) in the " Be Quick or Be Dead" single. Later, a similar comedy piece called "Bayswater Ain't a Bad Place to Be", again mocking Smallwood, was released as an unlisted untitled b-side ("Space Station No. The main guitar riff and verse vocal melodies are borrowed from the song "Life in the City" by Smith's prior band Urchin. The song opens with the spoken line "We're on a mission from Rod", a parody of the tagline for The Blues Brothers, "We're on a mission from God". Smallwood was unaware of the composition until it was released on the single, as the band had kept it secret from him. Apparently he had trouble adjusting to the LA lifestyle and often complained to the band about it. The demential song "Sheriff of Huddersfield" is about Iron Maiden manager Rod Smallwood's decision to move to Los Angeles and buy a house in the Hollywood Hills. This song was previously performed live by Nicko McBrain and Smith's side project The Entire Population of Hackney. The B-side "Reach Out" was sung by Adrian Smith, with regular lead singer Bruce Dickinson providing backing vocals. "Wasted Years" is featured in the 2007 video game Rock Band. The promotional video features black-and-white footage of the band playing the song in a studio in Frankfurt, West Germany, mixed with various scenes from band's previous promotional videos, together with clips and pictures of their off-show activities during the World Slavery Tour as well as the pre-solo evolution of Eddie from several album and tour artworks. It's a technical illustration of a keyboard of a time machine, with Eddie reflected in the window, because it was the only thing we could think of that wouldn't give Eddie away". Riggs describes the illustration as "a duffer.
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As with the Somewhere in Time album sleeve, the single cover also features the TARDIS from the BBC series Doctor Who. According to artist Derek Riggs, this is because the band did not want to reveal the mascot in his new cyborg guise until the album was released a few weeks later. Only a part of Eddie's face is seen, as a reflection in a screen. The cover depicts the band mascot Eddie's point of view as he flies a time machine. The original working title was "Golden Years", as can be heard on numerous Somewhere on Tour bootlegs. At the same time the chorus suggests the idea that one should move beyond past troubles and look forward. The song deals with subject of homesickness and alienation, as well as the negative aspects of the band's nearly year long previous tour and personal problems that Smith and other band members were going through in that period. It reached number 18 in the UK Singles Charts. Released in 1986, it was the first single solely written by guitarist Adrian Smith, who also sings backing vocals. It is the only song on the album that features no synthesizers. It is the band's fourteenth single released and the first from their sixth studio album, Somewhere in Time (1986). Its number is six hundred and sixty six." Wasted Years" is a song by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. "Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast So be prepared, don't run - stand your ground" Get ready to stand and fight for your lives, Iron Maiden's gonna get you, no matter how far." Watch your step, he's out to get you, come what may. "Keep your distance, walk away, don't take his bait.
We’ve scoured the band’s lyrics for 40 pieces of unmissable wisdom: read on and learn the way of the Maiden. They’ve travelled the world (sometimes flown by the band’s own Bruce Dickinson), gaining a reputation as one of the greatest live bands ever, redefined the world of heavy metal, and released an enormous 15 studio albums. They’ve been rocking their millions of fans for nearly 40 years, since forming in East London in 1975.
The mighty Iron Maiden are nothing less than a British institution.
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