Iron Maiden

SONG TITLE: TWO MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

ALBUM: POWERSLAVE
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LABEL: EMI
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Maiden’s fifth studio album, Powerslave, released in hundred thousand.

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1984. The song was the lead single from the album
and the tenth in Iron Maiden’s career. Unlike much After The Number Of The Beast was released in
of Iron Maiden’s work, which is written by bassist 1982, Iron Maiden became one of heavy metal’s
Steve Harris, the song was written by guitarist Adrian top acts with loyal audiences the world over. Their
Smith and singer Bruce Dickinson. ‘Two Minutes legendary shows have earned them many accolades
To Midnight’ was the band’s first single to exceed 5 PM sales are estimated at over one
and their record
minutes in length. hundred million. Their catalogue includes 16 studio
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5 38 releases to date. Despite various line-up
Powerslave was critically acclaimed and
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200. The album includes a musical re-telling of have played over 2000 shows.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner, using the poem as lyrics and clocking at Iron Maiden released The Book Of Souls in 2015
13.45 minutes. Powerslave features the same personnel and the record topped the UK Album Charts, a major
as Iron Maiden’s previous release, Piece Of Mind. achievement for a band that had then been around for
The line-up would remain stable for two further thirty-five years.
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feature an instrumental piece. The promotional tour

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that followed the record’s release was Iron Maiden’s
longest. It opened in Warsaw and then moved to
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 Two Minutes To Midnight
Iron Maiden
Words & Music by Bruce Dickinson
c188 Rock & Adrian Smith

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 Metallica

SONG TITLE: HOLIER THAN THOU

ALBUM: METALLICA
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LABEL: ELEKTRA

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GENRE: THRASH METAL /

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HEAVY METAL

WRITTEN BY: JAMES HETFIELD

AND LARS ULRICH
PRODUCED BY: BOB ROCK,
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titled fifth studio album, also known as The Black play as part of the Monsters Of Rock festival tour for
Album. The record was a massive worldwide success the fourth time. The tour closed in Moscow, Russia, in

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and became Metallica’s best-selling album. The record September 1991 in what was described as the first free

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signals a change in Metallica’s sound, including a outdoor Western rock concert in the country, with
slower and more melodic approach leaning towards estimates of 150 thousand to half a million people in

heavy metal. The record sold 16 million copies in the
US alone.
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producer Bob Rock during the recording process.
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attendance. Some unofficial estimates put attendance
at over 1.5 million. The band followed Monsters Of
Rock with the Wherever We May Roam Tour in 1992
during which James Heftfield suffered second and
PM after accidentally walking into a
third degree burns
3.5 metre flame shot from the stage pyrotechnics set.
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reached a million US dollars. The tension resulting catalogue and the song was re-introduced to live
from the sessions made Rock swear he’d never work performances. Metallica was played in its entirety
with Metallica again. Much of this is documented in during the 2012 European Black Album Tour.
the documentaries A Year and a Half In The Life Of
Metallica and Classic Albums: Metallica – Metallica.

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production of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, bassist
Jason Newsted, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett
divorced their wives.

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Metallica
Words & Music by James Hetfield
& Lars Ulrich
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