29. Various significant dates in IRON MAIDEN history part5
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This article is from the Iron Maiden FAQ, by Vartan Narinian vsn@pobox.com and Steve Payne Sirpapa@aol.com with numerous contributions by others.
29. Various significant dates in IRON MAIDEN history part5
83/06/10 - First gig in Luxembourg (World Piece Tour), Schifflance Luxemburg
Hall Polyvalent, Luxembourg.
83/06/20 - The Trooper b/w Cross-Eyed Mary single is released. It made the
British top 20 once again
83/06/21 - The USA/Canada leg of the World Piece Tour begin in Casper, WY.
This was their first full headline tour of the USA and Canada.
83/08/15 - Concert at Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, NY. A lawsuit stemmed
from this concert where some girl was doing sensual dancing on
stage. I'm not sure of the outcome of this (somebody wanna
check?!). See section 9 of the FAQ for more on this.
83/08/18 - Maiden plays Allentown, PA. The song "Mission From 'Arry" was
recorded post-gig this night. Seems that during the beginning
of Nicko's drum solo, Steve's bass quit, so he told a roadie
("Bill"), to go and tell Nicko to try and extend his solo.
Trouble was, the guy wasn't his drum roadie and didn't really
know how to go about telling him, so he ended up waving his arms
like a demented windmill and trying to yell over the noise. All
that happened was that Nicko missed the message but got distracted
enough to mess up his solo. After the gig, he clocked the guy,
which prompted a huge 1/2 hour long argument between him and
Steve. After most of that was over, Bruce went in with his
Walkman, and started stirring it up again. Steve spotted the
Walkman and said "some cunt's recording this", whereupon Nicko
went to jump on the Walkman and smash it. Fine, except Bruce
had a bunch of ideas and lyrics on the other side of the cassette
for Powerslave, so he intercepted and clocked Nicko one. Now
you'll see this as a b-side to 2 Minutes To Midnight, with writing
credits to "Harris/McBrain, and engineered by Bruce Dickinson."
83/09/05 - Concert at Kingswood Music Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Rod was in his hotel room the night before and heard on the radio
that there was gonna be an Italian wine-tasting festival in the
park, and that IRON MAIDEN fans had to go through the back door
and miss out on the chance to use the fun fair beforehand (a ben-
efit which is normally included in the ticket price). Fuming
that their fans were being treated as 2nd class citizens (it
turned out that Culture Club fans the day before had been allowed
to go through the front despite the wine festival being on then,
too) - Rod got his record company guy out of bed, and by 3am they
had tracked down the promoter, who was told in no uncertain terms
that if Maiden fans had to go through the back door, the band
wouldn't play. Of course, the promoter hastily changed his tune
quickly thereafter.
83/10/04 - Maiden plays at Baltimore, MD (15,000 sell-out).
83/10/08 - Maiden plays in Madison Square Garden, New York, NY (sells out
18,000 seats in less than a week). The T-shirt for this was
pretty cool apparently, with a lobotomized Statue of Liberty on
the front with the Trooper design looming in the background, and
a lobotomized Madison Square Garden on the back, with the brain
peeking out from the Gardens top.
83/10/15 - 83/10/16 - Maiden's first gigs in Florida, in Jacksonville and
Lakeland. But they still sold out both of them!
83/12/18 - Maiden kills Eddie on stage at the Westfalenhalle, Dortmund ZDF
Festival, Dortmund, Germany (with other metal greats Ozzy
Osbourne, Judas Priest, the Scorpions, Def Leppard, Quiet Riot,
MSG, and Krokus).
83/12/29 - Steve marries his longtime girlfriend Lorraine (His first kid,
Lauren, was born very shortly after their marriage (can we say
"shotgun wedding?!" I think). He now has (at least) 3 girls
altogether, that I know of).
Summer '84 - Rehearsals for the World Slavery Tour in Hanover.
84/08/06 - 2 Minutes To Midnight b/w Rainbow's Gold (another good Nicko drum
feature!) single is released. It got in the top ten on the UK
charts.
84/08/09 - 84/08/19 - Behind The Iron Curtain/World Slavery Tour.
84/08/09 - First gig in Poland (World Slavery Tour), Torwar Sports Hall,
Warsaw, Poland. No Western band had ever done a full show there
before. At this gig there were 14,000 frantic fans inside, and
another 5,000 locked out! The World Slavery Tour ended up going
through 24 different countries in about 11 1/2 months.
84/08/16 - First gig in Austria (World Slavery Tour), Aichfeldhall
Sportzentrum, Vienna, Austria.
84/08/17 - First gig in Hungary (World Slavery Tour), Budapest Sports Hall,
Budapest, Hungary. This was a 38,000-strong festival - the
biggest show Maiden had ever headlined alone (at the time).
84/09/03 - POWERSLAVE is released (yes, right after the tour had begun!).
The Japanese release contained a poster and lyric sheet. They
also played a concert in Madrid, Spain this day.
84/10/08 - 84/10/12 - Maiden's 4 sold out performances at Hammersmith Odeon,
London, England (84/10/08, 84/10/09, 84/10/10,
84/10/12). (World Slavery Tour). Some of the LIVE
AFTER DEATH album was recorded here (side 4 only).
84/10/22 - Aces High b/w King of Twilight single is released. It got to #20
in the UK charts. The Japanese release contained the songs "Aces
High", "King Of Twilight", and "Rainbow's Gold", and included a
lyric sheet.
84/11/24 - First gig in Nova Scotia (World Slavery Tour), Metro Center,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Dec '84 - Bruce Dickinson marries longtime girlfriend Jane.
85/01/11 - First gig in South America, Brazil (World Slavery Tour), Rock 'N'
Rio, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
85/01/17 - First of 7 shows at Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY (World
Slavery Tour). These 7 shows sold out in about 2 hours, a record
for Radio City Music Hall at the time. The last 2 of these
(85/01/23, 85/01/24), as well as the concert the following day in
Bethlehem, PA (85/01/25) were cancelled due to the post-Rio de
Janeiro flu (some members of the band were sleeping 23 hours a
day by this time)!
85/03/01 - Maiden plays Waco! (World Slavery Tour), Convention Center, Waco,
TX.
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