Clive Burr
Pull a thread
Run to the Hills: How Iron Maiden Wrote the Old West Without Ever Seeing It
Steve Harris learned the frontier from paperback westerns, then flipped the camera on the people those books rooted for. Forty-four years later the song is still the loudest history lesson in metal.
Four Englishmen and a pile of Louis L’Amour novels
In early 1982, Iron Maiden had a new singer, a British tour already booked, and no album. What they did have was a bass player who read a lot of cowboy books.