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I was hoping for some SIT and SSOASS stuff too (can't believe its 20 years old in March); must be the next DVD, which will hopefully have Donington '88 (rather than just the Maiden England NEC vid).
Iron Maiden announce full details of LIVE AFTER DEATH DVD
Published: November 7, 2007
Finally available on DVD for the first time, EMI Records are proud to announce the eagerly awaited release of the Double Disc DVD of LIVE AFTER DEATH, the legendary recording of Maiden's four night stand at Long Beach Arena, California, in 1984. In the shops 4th February 2008 (5th in the US), the release will coincide with the start of the band's "Somewhere Back In Time World Tour" on which they will recreate many of the aspects of this original and spectacular show.
Disc one contains the recording of this full 90 minute concert. Originally filmed on 35mm, the footage comes alive on DVD resulting in a visually stunning film that far outstrips the usual live video of the '80's. The disc carries two sound options - the original concert audio specially mixed into 5.1 Surround Sound by Kevin Shirley, Maiden's producer since 1999, plus the original stereo sound track by Martin Birch, the band's producer from 1981 to 1993. Originally released on video in 1985, this has been largely unavailable for the past 20 years
Disc two has Part 2 of the 'History of Iron Maiden', continuing on the Maiden story from "The Early Days" DVD, along with rare and unseen bonus footage in the form of BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, ROCK IN RIO '85, and 'ELLO TEXAS, all in all giving a total running time of well over three hours. Plus of course the photo galleries, relevant promo videos, artwork galleries, tour dates, tour programme and other features which all combine to make Maiden DVDs a very special and utterly comprehensive treat for their fans.
Manager Rod Smallwood explained "The original video of Live After Death has not been readily available for a long time so its good that we finally got around to this. lt was one of the first full concerts to be filmed after the advent of video and of course the live album, recorded on a different night to the video, has long been considered to be one of the seminal Metal live albums and has sold millions since. Fans have been begging us to do this DVD for some time now but we wanted to wait until we were able to recreate that whole tour to go with it and also to make it part of a series of DVDs that we are putting together around the band's history. And of course we are making sure that now we have got to it we will be giving the fans everything we can find from that period!!"
FULL LIST OF CONTENTS
Disc 1 -- LIVE AFTER DEATH
Live After Death concert with Stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio (90 minutes)
Set list --
Churchill Speech/Aces High
2 Minutes to Midnight
The Trooper
Revelations
Flight of Icarus
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Powerslave
Number of the Beast
Hallowed Be Thy Name
Iron Maiden
Run to The Hills
Running Free
Sanctuary
Disc 2 -- DOCUMENTARY / BONUS CONCERT FOOTAGE
The History of Iron Maiden -- Part 2 (60 mins) -- Documentary -- Band members, crew, friends and associates talk about the period in the band's career which saw the writing, recording and release of the Powerslave album, and later Live After Death, and the subsequent massive touring. And not just the serious side!!
Behind the Iron Curtain ( 57 mins approx) Documentary and Live -- shot during Maiden's historic tour of Poland and other parts to the Eastern Bloc in 1984 featuring interviews, live and offstage footage capturing the atmosphere of this remarkable journey behind the Wall at the height of the Cold War.
Live Footage - Rock in Rio '85 (50 mins approx) -- Highlights from the Maiden set supporting Queen on the first day of the first Rock in Rio in front of 300,000. A bloody and stirring performance!!
Ello Texas -- 15 minutes -- Interview and live. Caught by a film crew in 1983 at the Alamo and sound checking their show in San Antonio.
Artwork Gallery, Tour Programme, Tour dates and photo gallery
Promotional clips for Aces High and 2 Minutes to Midnight
Subtitles for All documentary footage --
PAL version -- English HOH / Dutch / French / German / Italian / Swedish / Portuguese / Spanish
NTSC Version -- English HOH / Brazilian Portguese / Latin Spanish
LIVE AFTER DEATH was filmed and recorded towards the tail end of 'The World Slavery Tour' over a record breaking four sold out nights at Los Angeles' 13,200 capacity Long Beach Arena. Featuring tracks from their first five albums both the album and video topped the international charts around the world. The tour opened in Warsaw in August 1984 and concluded in Los Angeles July 1985. It covered 193 concerts in 21 countries, including an incredible 112 arena shows in just the USA and Canada (both where the album went Platinum), and saw the band playing to over a million fans in North America alone. This was the most ambitious, longest and most gruelling tour Maiden ever experienced.
As the second instalment to 2004's international chart topping The Early Days DVD The Second Disc features the highly anticipated 'THE HISTORY OF IRON MAIDEN PART II' which gives an insight, humorous and otherwise, into the making of the record as well as exploring the creativity and the background pressures created through the sheer hard work and the physical toll that comes with success at this level for a touring band.
Also packed in on the second disc are more extras with three more rare and unseen gems from the period:
BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, which was first released in April 1985 as a 35 minute video documentary, illustrates the quite remarkable story of how Iron Maiden became the first major band from the West to play large arenas in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Hungary at a time when these markets were still very much "Behind the Iron Curtain". This 57 minute DVD version features a lot of extra footage not included on the original retail release. Prior to this DVD the only time it had been seen was on a special MTV airing in 1984. With complete access on the tour, filmmaker and director Kenny Fueurman, gives the viewer a candid insight into the world of Maiden at this groundbreaking time in their career. It also contains interviews with some of the thousands of fans who attended their shows, and their reaction to having Maiden play there for the first time despite their album being out of reach in the old Eastern Bloc countries, where at the time it would cost almost a month's wages! Also included is the infamous incident of the band gate crashing an unsuspecting private wedding party and becoming the evenings 'entertainment' in return for a Polish vodka or three!
Extensive research allowed the producers to retrieve footage of highlights from the band's biggest ever show when they played in Brazil to a sea of rock fans estimated to be somewhere between 250,000 to 350,000 on the first night of the first ROCK IN RIO festival in Feb1985. Maiden went on just prior to headliners QUEEN and cemented their place in the heart of South American fans. Despite best endeavours this 50 minutes clip of extremely rare concert footage is admittedly not in the greatest shape and in parts was beyond repair, but at the request of fans hungry for a record of the historical performance, it has been included in the package as a special bonus.
Another small but also previously unavailable 15 minute feature is 'ELLO TEXAS, which gives a candid glimpse of Iron Maiden performing to the US audiences with further band interview footage at the Alamo. Historically this recording from 1983 should have been included in 2004's EARLY DAYS DVD but it only came to light during research for this Live After Death DVD and is included now for interest.
In essence, Live After Death, the double disc DVD gives over five hours of content, giving the most complete and in depth exploration of Iron Maiden during what was considered their most pivotal album and tour of their long and distinguished history.
I just ordered it from CD WOW's US site for $12.95 (discount link + voucher combo ... always good for £11.99 items )
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Originally Posted by krish
Magic £11.99 ... Iron Maiden - Live After Death (new 2-disc release of their legendary live video from 1985, with Behind The Iron Curtain, History Of Iron Maiden Part 2 doc, and loads of other stuff) - released Monday 4th Feb www.cd-wow.com/detail_results_2.php?product_code=2569012
I dug out and played my VHS copy yesterday. Quality looked quite bad after all these years (bought the week it came out if i remember) I have to say the tight spandex and look of the time I can easily go without these days. I might pick it up when it's cheap but i won't be in a rush. I have far too many concert videos/DVD's recorded from that era that i just can't watch (Rush's Replay i just laugh at) I much prefer to just listen and not see from that era. Bruce's clothes had me in stitches. At nearly 50 and a fan since Killers i'm obviously getting passed it, not just for Maiden either.
I might pick it up when it's cheap but i won't be in a rush.
Only cost me $12.95 (~£6.60); getting it for all the other archive stuff and History Of .. Pt II, as History Of PtI was a superb doc. I love 'rockumentaries' (and of course 'mockumentaries' ), especially those Family Trees they had on BBC2 a few years ago. I actually bought Maiden's original doc video, '12 Wasted Years' when it came out back in '87 (when they were 12, having formed in '75) ... suprised they didn't include it in this or the last DVD as quaint little extra.
Also had Behind The Iron Curtain (Bruce: "You can't play metal with synthesisers ") which is on the LAD DVD in its full extended form.
Hmmm, copy of LAD arrived yesterday (on my day off, as luck would have it). I stuck in disc 1 (the LAD gig), and was….surprised to say the least. The PQ is about as good as VHS! They haven't cleaned up the picture one bit. Feel a bit cheated really. Yes, it's great to have this on DVD, but to charge full price and not digitally remaster it in any way is a bit cheeky don't you think?
As for the other discs, only watched a bit, but the documentary is excellent and very amusing. The Rio footage is frickin terrible, barely even worth watching.
I can't remember if it was filmed on video or film. If it was film have the masters been lost? Even video at the time was better than VHS quality, so why such bad quality? Now I know this it's definately a bargain bucket buy only.
Hmmm, copy of LAD arrived yesterday (on my day off, as luck would have it). I stuck in disc 1 (the LAD gig), and was….surprised to say the least. The PQ is about as good as VHS! They haven't cleaned up the picture one bit. Feel a bit cheated really. Yes, it's great to have this on DVD, but to charge full price and not digitally remaster it in any way is a bit cheeky don't you think?
As for the other discs, only watched a bit, but the documentary is excellent and very amusing. The Rio footage is frickin terrible, barely even worth watching.
The above is making me think twice about buying this
Don't get me wrong, it is LAD after all, and therefore needs to be owned by any Maiden fan. I got through 2 copies on VHS. One wore out from being played so much over the years. It just seems a bit strange. If you compared the PQ to Maiden live at the Rainbow on the frist DVD to this, it is chalk and cheese.
The surround sound is a bit weird as well. Bruce's voice is high up in the mix out of the centre and takes a bit of getting used to. Hopefully others can comment on this as well. I wouldn't want anyone not buying this just cos of my comments!
Re: Iron Maiden: Live After Death DVD 
01-02-2008, 8:05 PM
), especially those Family Trees they had on BBC2 a few years ago. I actually bought Maiden's original doc video, '12 Wasted Years' when it came out back in '87 (when they were 12, having formed in '75) ... suprised they didn't include it in this or the last DVD as quaint little extra.
) which is on the LAD DVD in its full extended form.
E. & O.E.
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