Iron Maiden releases vinyl for 40 years of “Live After Death”

40 years after its publication, the release – for November 28th – of a new limited edition colored double vinyl collector’s edition of the band’s live album has been announced. Iron Maiden “Live After Death”. The disc consists of a gatefold cover, two 140 g vinyls – one blue, the other yellow – with the 2015 audio remastering. The package also includes a replica of the original 24-page program of the “World Slavery Tour”a replica tour pass and a 12-page glossy booklet, which contains the original eight-page booklet along with an unpublished essay titled “Rime And Punishment: Celebrating 40 Years Of Live After Death”in which Alexander Milasdirector of the fan club of Iron Maideninterview Steve Harris, Nicko McBrainthe manager Rod Smallwood and the illustrator Derek Riggs.

Steve Harris
He said of that period: “We were working our tails off. It was literally ‘record, tour, record, tour’, we never stopped. Rod did his thing, and it was the right thing to do. I mean, we were absolutely ready, it’s not like we were doing things we didn’t want to do. You think you’re invincible, ‘Yeah, we’ll do it, no problem’. It’s the way to make it. It was the only way for a band like us, because at the time we didn’t We had no radio play.”

“Live After Death”
was recorded mainly during the four nights in which the British band played at the Long Beach Arena in Los Angeles in March 1985. The last side of the double album was instead recorded during the four nights in which the band played at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in October 1984.

Those two concert series were part of the
“World Slavery Tour”
in support of the 1984 album
“Powerslave”
which left Poland and featured 187 concerts in 331 days. The
Iron Maiden
they will be in concert on June 17th for their
only Italian date
of the tour celebrating 50 years of his career, the
“Run For Your Lives World Tour”
.