Source: DVD5
Format: DVD Video
Video kodek: MPEG2
Audio kodek: AC3
Video: PAL 16:9 (720x576) VBR Auto Letterboxed
Audio: English (Dolby AC3, 2 ch)

Released: 2001
Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment
Genre: Heavy Metal
Total Time: 01:17:17

Iron Maiden's 1982 breakthrough, The Number of the Beast--its first with leather-lunged vocalist Bruce Dickinson--remains a heavy-metal watershed, and this Classic Albums program reunites the major players (including producer Martin Birch) for the undoubted pleasure of longtime Maiden fans. The interviews with band members and rock journalists in the 50-minute program touch on Maiden's early career, then delve into the creation of songs that have become hard-rock classics: the title song came about from a nightmare that bassist-songwriter Steve Harris couldn't shake, "The Prisoner" was inspired by the Patrick McGoohan television series, and the hit "Run to the Hills" made the sort of political statement (about white men's savage treatment of native peoples) that then-Capitol Records exec Don Zimmermann notes most American fans couldn't have cared less about while head-banging.

Tracklist:

01. The Number of the Beast
02. 22 Acacia Avenue
03. The Prisoner
04. Run to the Hills
05. Children of the Damned
06. Hallowed Be Thy Name

Bonus

01. Adrian Smith & Dave Murray Twin Guitars
02. Beast Stories
03. Reading Festival 1982
04. Nicknames
05. Rod Smallwood
06. Adrian Smith Plays 'Children of the Damned'
07. Adrian Smith Plays 'The Number of the Beast'
08. A Message from Clive Burr
09. 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' Rio 2001