Iron Maiden - The History of Iron Maiden Part 1 The early days (DVD)

 I hardly ever write DVD reviews and in fact this maybe my first one.  But I was compelled to do one after watching this one.  Earlier this year I did a Tims Twitter Listening party number 666 where it was Iron Maiden's album "Powerslave".  I have never listened to this album before and was greatly impressed. So much so I have been listening to a lot of Maiden recently.  But I'm finding is there is so much of it and I didn't really know much about them.  So, when I saw "The History of Iron Maiden....part 1" on Amazon I thought perfect.

And perfect really is the word for it.   There is an hour and half documentary on this which covers the bands formation in 1975 to roughly 1981 which therefore includes their debut album and second album Killers.  I had no idea they had so many line-up changes before their debut even came out.  The documentary has a lot of band member interviews both past and present and explains what happened over the early years with the various band members.

What I didn't count on when buying this DVD was just how much live footage there would be. While they are not the long hour and half plus concerts, we are used to seeing now a days.   There are 3 gigs with more in extras and live TV performances.  I had to watch both discs over 2 nights, including one night where I sat and watched footage for 3 hours. There is just so much to it. And it is fantastic.

For Maiden fans that have been with them since the start this serves as bringing back memories.  But for people like me this and the many Maiden fans they have picked up in the last 40 years this really does act as an education and real eye opener into just how good they were straight off the bat.  No wonder they went on to great things.

I should note that if you are looking for DVDs but the DVDs aren't called Part 2, 3, 4 they are titled after the live performance for that era.