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up u'ith early versionsofstufflike "wrathchild," "Prowler" and "Transylvania." Also,"Purgatory'comesfiom that time, only then it was called"Floating."If we did a cover we'd makeit ore that peoplewouldn't necessa ly know So insteadof 'All Right Now" by Freewe'd do "I'm a Mover."But assooi asan original camein, a coverwould go out. I was heavilyiDfluencedby progressiverock like Genesis,Jethro Tull, ELR Yes,King Crim.on...I usedto Io\e off-lhe-wallchange5 comingout ofnowhere. Like, "Where'shis headat?"you know?

?AUlDt'AxxoI knowwhat peoplesayabout me,but the thing is, mostofit's true! So I cant complain,really.I know peopl€havesaidit wasmy undoing,backin the Maidendays.But me and Stevewe.e perfectopposites,so it fitted. The songswere allprettysedousbut my approachto them,atleastonstage,wasn't.But then it's supposed to be aboutbreakinga few rules,ain't it? I don't want to be sittingthere at 60 thinking I'd neverhad a bit offun, you knowwhat I mean?

HARtlsHe had abit of an attitude on him but he seemedall rigl'rt.He said,"Do you know 'Dealer'by DeepPuryle?"Daveyknew it andhe showedme the chordsand awaywe wenl And fuckinghelll Did he soundgoodor what?I mean there'ssort of a raspingquality in Paulhvoicetlat just gaveit this geat edge.And he wasobviouslya bit of a chai:acterSowe startedtying "Iron Maiden" and "Prowler" andhd soundedbrilliarr

HAnnls ldidn ( carehowlongorshonhi! hairwas,I thoughthe looked$eat andsoundedgreat.A bit lateron he startedwearingsilly, frilly TomJones-stylevests,becausehe was into Adam Ant. Later on, he star'ted$€a ng pork pie hats.He knewwe \['eren'tinto thal softof stuff.But it didn'tbotherme.He pissed ne offwhenhewore the frilly shirt onstageI mustadmit,tause I thoughthe lookedtucking stupid.But Paulwasgr€a! the genuinearticle, you know?A real geezer.

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tllat KAYI was running and screaming around the iounge lihe a lunatic. I just couldn't stop playing it. The combination of speed, power, the key changes, the melody and Dave Murray's melody lines bowled me o \ e r . L (w a s d e f i n i r e l ) I h e m o \ r i m p r e s s i ! e demo I'd ever had delivered to me. The next d a y I p h o n e d S r e v eH a r r i s a n d s a i d l o h i r r " \ o u v e g o t s o m e r h i n gh e r e t h a r c o u l d m a k e you a lot ofmoney." Ard he laughed at me. He thought I was kidding! ROOtMArLwooD ll $ a\ prerty differenr from what most new bands I knewwere doing at t h a t l i r n e . w h i c h w a s r n a ; r r l )p u n k s r u f l I u neverreally liked punk. My backgound was heaqT rock. I went to see them play but dicln't introduce myselfat first in case they were crap. But I was impressed by the setup. They had their own little PA and lights, and smoke c o m i n g o u t o f r h e E d d i e d e a t hs h e a d r h i n g a l the back ofthe stage. cloar BARTOI|we ran the NWOBHM feature with Maiden in it in Sounds and the responsewas justphenomenal. Suddenly there were new heary metal bands springing up ever).where. Ofcourse, not all ofthem were as conpetent or as interesting as bands like Iron Maiden and DefLeppard, but the fact thattheywere even tryingwas news back then, and we just ran with it for about two years in the end.

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ADIIAXsfllTH At the audition I remember Rod interrogated me, like, "Can you play riffs?Do you play leads,too?"It wasvery intense.Stevewas obviously very motivated, very sedous about the whole thing. Dave and Paulseemedeasiergoingabouteveryrhing. Then at my first gig with them a fan came up to me and said, "Are you the new guitarist?" I said,'Yeah."He said,'Youbetterbe goodl"I thought, FUck,what have I let myself in for?

fiaRlli Blt(ll I was in New York and I went to visit RitchieBlackmore.He said, "Haveyou heerdthis newband?"and proceededto play me the first Iron Maiden album. He just thought it was great, and so did L About halfway thrcugh it, he turned to me and said,"Why don't you do them?"I thought, He's dght, I should be doing this band.when I got a call aboutdoingtheir next album I thought it was fate. I thought the bestway to handlethem wasto make them feel ascomfortableaspossible.SoI set themup asa groupin the middleofrhe studio ard said,"Look,just play the songsasyou would live snd we'll work from there." s lIH We calledhim the Headmaster becalrsehe wasso strict.Martin was agood laugh,but when we were working he cracked the whip. The band was tight anFvay fiom playingon the road,but Martin camein and madeit eventighter HAn s Production-wisq it was chalk and cheesecomparedwith the first album.As for the quality ofthe songs,I think you could arguethat the first album was the strongest, butItend to disagree. The frrstalbumwaslike a best-of ftom our live set,songswhich went backyears.But we still hada lot of rea1lygood, strong songs.'nvrathchild" had beenin the set fiom the star:tbut that got left off the firct album.An amazingsonglive. wasni somuchhis playing.it \.rasmorehispersonality.He wasjust into other things, the Eaglesand the Doobie Brothers. If I wanted to haveajam atsoundcheck. 1d be fuckingplalng BlackSabbathor Montrose.civing it loads!But he'dbe thereplayinglike locc andthe Eagles. His heartwasn'tin Maiden.

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still soldmore copiesthan the first album. Dl'axl{o I don't know if it had anJthing to do with me dumping her or not, but I don t like (illers an].way.I thought it wasn't a patch on the first album. Don't askme why, we all worked our bollocks off, but it just don't have the samemagic for me asthe first album. It just don't

HAttrsPaulstartedcomplainingthathe was losinghisvoice.Thenoncehewasonstage, hed be totally fine. It waslike an attenriongrabbing thing. He wanted you to worry over him. Somenights he'd literallybe lying on the floor inthe dressingroom going,"Oh,I'm not gonna make it you'll have to go on without me!" Thenwe'd spendagesfussingoverhim, trying to make him feel better. Dl'A xo I was a kid-22 yearsold-and here we were headlining our own big tour and l didn't know howto handleit. I didn't know nothing,I didn't dnf to know nothingl And of course,I wasdoinga bit ofspeedand [col