I just got this press release in my e-mail a little while ago... sounds like a pretty sweet DVD!
IRON MAIDEN ANNOUNCE FULL DETAILS OF LIVE AFTER DEATH DVD
Finally available on DVD for the first time, New Door Records/UMe are
proud to announce the eagerly awaited release of the Double Disc DVD of
LIVE AFTER DEATH, the legendary recording of Maiden’s four night
stand at Long Beach Arena, California, in 1984.
In the stores February 5th, 2008, the release will coincide with the
start of the band’s “Somewhere Back In Time World Tour” on which
they will recreate many of the aspects of this original and spectacular
show.
Disc one contains the recording of this full 90 minute concert.
Originally filmed on 35mm, the footage comes alive on DVD resulting in a
visually stunning film that far outstrips the usual live video of the
‘80’s. The disc carries two sound options - the original concert audio
specially mixed into 5.1 Surround Sound by Kevin Shirley, Maiden’s
producer since 1999, plus the original stereo sound track by Martin
Birch, the band’s producer from 1981 to 1993.
Originally released on video in 1985, this has been largely unavailable
for the past 20 years
Disc two has Part 2 of the ‘History of Iron Maiden’, continuing on
the Maiden story from “The Early Days” DVD, along with rare and
unseen bonus footage in the form of BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, ROCK IN RIO
’85, and ‘ELLO TEXAS, all in all giving a total running time of well
over three hours. Plus of course the photo galleries, relevant promo
videos, artwork galleries, tour dates, tour programme and other
features which all combine to make Maiden DVDs a very special and utterly
comprehensive treat for their fans.
Manager Rod Smallwood explained “The original video of Live After
Death has not been readily available for a long time so its good that we
finally got around to this. lt was one of the first full concerts to be
filmed after the advent of video and of course the live album, recorded
on a different night to the video, has long been considered to be one
of the seminal Metal live albums and has sold millions since. Fans have
been begging us to do this DVD for some time now but we wanted to wait
until we were able to recreate that whole tour to go with it and also
to make it part of a series of DVDs that we are putting together around
the band’s history. And of course we are making sure that now we
have got to it we will be giving the fans everything we can find from that
period!!”
FULL LIST OF CONTENTS:
Disc 1 – LIVE AFTER DEATH
Live After Death concert with Stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio (90
minutes)
Set list –
Churchill Speech/Aces High
2 Minutes to Midnight
The Trooper
Revelations
Flight of Icarus
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Powerslave
Number of the Beast
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Iron Maiden
Run to The Hills
Running Free
Sanctuary
Disc 2 DOCUMENTARY / BONUS CONCERT FOOTAGE
1.
THE History of Iron Maiden – Part 2 (60 mins) – Documentary.
Band members, crew, friends and associates talk about the period in the
band’s career which saw the writing, recording and release of the
Powerslave album, and later Live After Death, and the subsequent massive
touring. And not just the serious side!!
2.
Behind the Iron Curtain ( 57 mins approx) Documentary and Live – shot
during Maiden’s historic tour of Poland and other parts to the
Eastern Bloc in 1984 featuring interviews, live and offstage footage
capturing the atmosphere of this remarkable journey behind the Wall at the
height of the Cold War.
3.
Live Footage - Rock in Rio ’85 (50 mins approx) The full Maiden set
supporting Queen on the first day of the first Rock in Rio in front of
300,000 manic metal fans. A bloody and stirring performance!!
Songs performed include –
Aces High
2 Minutes to Midnight
The Trooper
Revelations
Powerslave
Iron Maiden
Run To The Hills
Running Free
4.
Ello Texas – 15 minutes – Interview and live. Caught by a film crew
in 1983 at the Alamo and sound checking their show in San Antonio.
5.
Artwork Gallery, Tour Programme, Tour dates and photo gallery
6.
Promotional clips for Aces High and 2 Minutes to Midnight
Subtitles for All documentary footage –
PAL version – English HOH / Dutch / French / German / Italian /
Swedish / Portuguese / Spanish
NTSC Version – English HOH / Brazilian Portguese / Latin Spanish
Background historical information :
LIVE AFTER DEATH was filmed and recorded towards the tail end of ‘The
World Slavery Tour’ over a record breaking four sold out nights at
Los Angeles’ 13,200 capacity Long Beach Arena. Featuring tracks from
their first five albums both the album and video topped the
international charts around the world. The tour opened in Warsaw in August 1984
and concluded in Los Angeles July 1985. It covered 193 concerts in 21
countries, including an incredible 112 arena shows in just the USA and
Canada (both where the album went Platinum), and saw the band playing to
over a million fans in North America alone. This was the most
ambitious, longest and most gruelling tour Maiden ever experienced.
As the second instalment to 2004’s international chart topping The
Early Days DVD The Second Disc features the highly anticipated ‘THE
HISTORY OF
IRON MAIDEN PART II’ which gives an insight, humorous and otherwise,
into the making of the record as well as exploring the creativity and
the background pressures created through the sheer hard work and the
physical toll that comes with success at this level for a touring band.
Also packed in on the second disc are more extras with three more rare
and unseen gems from the period :-
BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, which was first released in April 1985 as a 35
minute video documentary, illustrates the quite remarkable story of
how Iron Maiden became the first major band from the West to play large
arenas in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Hungary at a time when
these markets were still very much “Behind the Iron Curtain”. This
57 minute DVD version features a lot of extra footage not included on
the original retail release. Prior to this DVD the only time it had
been seen was on a special MTV airing in 1984. With complete access on the
tour, filmmaker and director Kenny Fueurman, gives the viewer a candid
insight into the world of Maiden at this groundbreaking time in their
career. It also contains interviews with some of the thousands of fans
who attended their shows, and their reaction to having Maiden play
there for the first time despite their album being out of reach in the old
Eastern Bloc countries, where at the time it would cost almost a
month’s wages! Also included is the infamous incident of the band gate
crashing an unsuspecting private wedding party and becoming the evenings
‘entertainment’ in return for a Polish vodka or three!
Extensive research allowed the producers to retrieve footage of
highlights from the band’s biggest ever show when they played in Brazil to a
sea of rock fans estimated to be somewhere between 250,000 to 350,000
on the first night of the first ROCK IN RIO festival in Feb1985.
Maiden went on just prior to headliners QUEEN and cemented their place in
the heart of South American fans. Despite best endeavours this 50
minutes clip of extremely rare concert footage is admittedly not in the
greatest shape and in parts was beyond repair, but at the request of fans
hungry for a record of the historical performance, it has been included
in the package as a special bonus.
Another small but also previously unavailable 15 minute feature is
‘ELLO TEXAS, which gives a candid glimpse of Iron Maiden performing
to the US audiences with further band interview footage at the Alamo.
Historically this recording from 1983 should have been included In
2004’s EARLY DAYS DVD but it only came to light during research for this
Live After Death DVD and is included now for interest.
In essence, Live After Death, the double disc DVD gives over five hours
of content, giving the most complete and in depth exploration of Iron
Maiden during what was considered their most pivotal album and tour of
their long and distinguished history.
The February 5th DVD release coincides with the start of the recently
announced Somewhere Back in Time World Tour 2008 which opens in India at the beginning of February.
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