Iron Maiden Can Save Your Soul
Iron Maiden. Aren't those guys head bangers and satanists? I guess the first answer is - so what if they were? But more importantly, their music isn't well understood by those who aren't fans. That may sound like a tautology. Isn't that true of most music? Perhaps, but at least with any other popular band, you can say most people have heard enough of their music to decide whether they like it or not. This is less true of Iron Maiden, which gets little radio air play. They get by with concerts and albums. You have to go looking for their music. This is compounded by the fact that those songs which have gotten air play are among their worst. And the worst of the worst is their first number one hit, which they wrote as a joke. Let's go back to 1991. By that time Iron Maiden, which had been around since 1975, was sixteen years old. And yet they'd never had a number one radio hit in the United States. In that year, the producers of Nightmare On Elm Street 5 asked t...