Added: Aug 10, 2008
From: GuitarHeroJP
Duration: 3:15
Year Long Disasters cover of Iron Maidens 'Running Free'. Enjoy! "Running Free" was the first single released by Iron Maiden. It was released on the 8th of February 1980 on the 7" 45 rpm vinyl record format. It was written by Steve Harris and Paul Di'Anno. The song appears as the third track on the band's debut album Iron Maiden. The song is about a troubled 16-year-old boy who runs away on a pick up truck, ends up in a Los Angeles jail and picks up a woman from a bar. The song is known to be one of the band's more traditional rock numbers and is still played at Maiden gigs today with the band members individually named by the lead singer during the long bass-solo. The single's cover art is also famously known as the first official appearance of the band's mascot Eddie. However in the cover-art his face is obscured because the band didn't want to unveil their mascot until the album's release. On the cover is a young metal-head resembling somewhat a young Bruce Dickinson. This should not be considered deliberate, as Dickinson had nothing to do with the band until some time after this. Also in the background, drawn on the wall, there are some band names such as AC/DC, Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin and Scorpions, rock groups that may have been inspiring Iron Maiden at the time.
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