“Déjà Vu” by Iron Maiden

"Déjà Vu" comes from Somewhere in Time, Iron Maiden's sixth album, released in 1986 on EMI in Britain and Capitol in America, and Steve Harris and Dave Murray wrote it. It carries the record's big new idea, too: this was the first Maiden album with guitar synthesizers, and here Murray plays one, Adrian Smith adds synthesizer and Harris handles bass and bass synth, while Nicko McBrain drives the kit and Bruce Dickinson sings lead, with Harris and Smith behind him on backing vocals. Martin Birch produced and mixed it.

The album came out of exhaustion. The World Slavery Tour of 1984-85 had run to 331 days and 187 shows, and the fatigue is blamed above all for Dickinson having no songs on the record at all: the rest of the band turned down what he brought in.

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