IRON MAIDEN Can Save Your Life

October 15, 2004

In a recent interview with Kerrang.com, stand-up comedian Steve Hughes, a metal fanatic whose shows spin around the subject, explained why heavy metal was important to him.

"My friends in Sweden are total IRON MAIDEN fanatics," he stated. "They've got every MAIDEN record that was released in every country. That's dedication. Masterful. So they went to Croatia to see them. While they were on the train, passengers were being robbed by Croatian soldiers. They were sitting there in their MAIDEN shirts and bullet-belts freaking out. Suddenly, the soldiers confronted them armed with machine guns. They noticed their shirts and yelled 'IRON MAIDEN! The greatest band in the world! You are okay!' and left them alone. Heavy metal will save your life. If they were into WESTLIFE, they would have been shot in the face."

In other MAIDEN-related news, MaidenZone.com reports that they received a mail from EMI Spain stating that the release date of MAIDEN's upcoming "The History of IRON MAIDEN - Part 1: The Early Days" DVD has been changed from November 8 to November 1 (November 2 in Spain). This is also in accordance to what many online shops has reported.

Apparently, the release date has been advanced to avoid competition in the UK with the "Live Aid" DVD, which will probably end up at the first place in the charts.

The e-mail from EMI Odeon Spain also mentions that they already have the Spanish dates for the upcoming 2005 tour, but that they can't give them out at the moment.

(Thanks: MaidenFans.com)

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