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I couldn't tell you how many times I watched this over the next couple of years. I kept that video tape until sometime in the last 20 years. I don't think it's in any of my boxes anymore. It's not like I have a VCR to play it (haven't owned one in probably 20 years) and I have hoped that someone had archived it. I do not know why I have never looked at @internetarchive before. What was I /not/ thinking?

No Idea why the metadata says 1980-1981, it was filmed while they toured for Powerslave. 1984-1985, IIRC.

Anyway, I am so fucking happy right now.

#IronMaiden

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OMG OMG OMG. Sometime after this video was released (1985ish), I was up late one night watching Night Flight on USA, and a commercial came on about this tape. I asked my parents if I could get it, it was maybe $30US or something. I anxiously awaited its arrival.

We received all our mail at the same address as my family's business, a PO box. Whatever I was doing that day it arrived, I didn't go by there that after school--I usually walked to said place of business from school. My dad was still working that evening, & he told me my package had arrived. I was so excited, I asked if I could watch it right then & there. It was late & we didn't even have a VCR at home, yet. So, I sat there about 6" away (exaggerating) from the TV--you know, whatever distance that your parents would all yell at you "Don't sit so close to the TV!"). I'm sure it was torture for my dad who sat there w/me while I watched it.

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