"The Number of the Beast" is Iron Maiden's seventh single and the second single from Iron Maiden's 1982 album of the same name. The song is inspired by both a nightmare bandleader and bassist Steve Harris had after watching the movie Damien: Omen II, and the storyline of the poem Tam o' Shanter. "The Number of The Beast" is one of Iron Maiden's greatest hits, and is almost always performed during concert. It reached 18 in the UK charts. The track is known for its very long, high-pitched and guttural wail by Bruce Dickinson at the end of the intro. In the documentary on the album of the same name, as part of the Classic Albums series by the BBC, Dickinson said this was due to producer Martin Birch forcing Dickinson to sing the first four lines for several hours, over and over again. The frustration of this culminated in this wail, the pitch of which Dickinson often failed to re-create live since the early days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(song)
_________________________ Around the world and back again. On this plane of existence where men rule 'cause no one in power will admit to a better way, I speak for womanhood as a man who will both mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually crush other men, depending on whichever method is required, to secure inherent rights for women. whether they be GG, TG or otherwise....~ Brotherly/Sisterly Love, Truett
#329679 - 02/07/1004:28 PMRe: More Cowbell for the Day
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Kara Thrace
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You know I really like to listen to the lyrics of songs when I listen to music and understand them. And either I'm getting old or this version actually does sound better.....
_________________________ If you adopt the methods of your enemies you have not truly defeated them.
The Dutch band Prostitute Disfigurement, Left in Grisly Fashion (live):
Savage butchery Ripped, cut and torn Pits of corpses In bloated form Slashed and dismembered Worm infested whore Left in grisly fashion Embalmed a week before!
_________________________ This a spiritual thing and I am the laughing Buddha sitting on top of the world. Donnalee.
"Populace above, populace below! What are 'poor' and 'rich' at present! That distinction did I unlearn,—then did I flee away further and ever further, until I came to those kine." --Thus Spake Zarathustra / Friedrich Nietzsche.
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