iron maiden

“Now! The first two tracks, as we said, ‘Running Free’ and ‘Sanctuary’, were recorded at Long Beach. And I was there. So was Dave, Adrian, Steve, and Bruce. Haha! Good job too, or else we’d have had a piece of blank vinyl!”

Bonus episode, in which I tell a personal story about my friend and how we decided where Iron Maiden’s cover of “King of Twilight” and Public Enemy’s “Brothers Gonna Work it Out” should fall in our pre-show walk-on music…

“Well how ya doing out there, you lot? Eh? Welcome yet again to Nicko’s ‘Not a Lot of People Know That’, or knew that, or still don’t…I don’t know, whatever it is nowadays…Number 6. You are absolutely, devastatingly, spoiled, the lot of ya. You’re out there in your greasy, sweaty, debauched, horrible, stinking, little palms and fingers and all those horrible little bits and pieces that go on your hands…Oh you, gosh, you’ve got such a package there! How can you still be sane, after this? I mean, goodness gracious, listen to me, I’ve been playing it for six years!”

“Welcome to ‘Not a Lot of People Know That, Part 5’. Yes, you lot out there, you’re so lucky again! How can you be getting so lucky, my God! Flight of Icarus in those grubby dirty by now horribly sticky little fingers and hands and grubby palms, and oh what else is grubby, I don’t know.”

“I’m back, nyaaah! You thought you got away with it, didn’t you? But you didn’t, no. Box number four. Do you like it so far? What a great set of singles and all that good stuff…original artwork and all that good stuff!”