“Where Eagles Dare” by Iron Maiden

"Where Eagles Dare" is pure Steve Harris, words and music, from Piece of Mind, the fourth Iron Maiden album, released in Britain by EMI on 16 May 1983 and in America by Capitol. It was the band's first record with Nicko McBrain on drums, the ex-Trust drummer who had replaced Clive Burr in December 1982, and here he locks in with Harris on bass, Dave Murray and Adrian Smith on electric guitars and Bruce Dickinson giving it full throat.

The songs were worked up in Jersey, where the band commandeered an out-of-season hotel and rehearsed in its restaurant, before their first trip to the Bahamas to record at Compass Point Studios in Nassau. Martin Birch produced, engineered and mixed, finishing the job at Electric Lady in New York, and the album rode it all into the UK top three and platinum sales on both sides of the Atlantic.

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