"Every fucking day we do this is the best day of our lives," beams Dickinson as Wasted Years brings the evening to an emotional close. It's all ultimately taken in good humour, though, and it doesn't come close to derailing a set that, when it counts, sticks its landing in style. Bruce's quintessentially British patter also misses the mark a couple of times - a Can I Play With Agnes joke falls flat (hey, we laughed), as does a reference to a 'Czechoslovakian' football team (whoops!). There are minor road bumps as is sometimes the case early on in these kinds of tours, Maiden taking on such a beast of a setlist means there are one or two brief unintended widdly detours and a couple of slight miscues. Oh, and Bruce whacks out a firework-shooting machine gun at one point. Even Eddie can't resist getting in on the action ASAP, popping out in his Stranger guise early on before later appearing in cyborg form, then samurai form (both big and small). Wasted Days and Wasted Nights was rated number 1 for twelve weeks on the pop charts of that country.3 Consider this reader, on several occasions. Somewhere In Time tracks are elevated by beautiful, Blade Runner-esque neon sci fi motifs, Dickinson embracing the theme from the off by emerging in a trenchcoat and shades combo that makes him look like something straight out of a Cyberpunk 2077 sequel. Hell On Earth, meanwhile, boasts what must amount to 90% of this show's pyro budget, not to mention an absolute humdinger of a climax with its emotionally heavy 'Love in anger, life in danger' refrain. It all sounds and looks vast, epic and classically Maiden. The airing of ten-minute-plus epics Death Of The Celts and Hell On Earth is a bold swing, but both pay off - the former finding Dickinson, in fine voice throughout tonight, in his element as he bobs and weaves around rolling bursts of fog. The Writing On The Wall's propulsive, mid-paced stomp sounds absolutely colossal, its earworm of a chorus bearing all the makings of a future live staple.
than the three-chord rock and country he had built his career around. It's all lapped up by a Prague crowd clearly happy to bathe in some nostalgia, but the most invigorating part of tonight is just how immense the British icons' latest material sounds, bolstered by a band that sound taut and as fired-up as ever. Hell pair his own despairing Wasted Days and Wasted Nights with the cloyingly. Maiden's latest setlist leans into the Somewhere In Time era in some style, kicking off with a dizzying double-header of Caught Somewhere In Time and Stranger In A Strange Land and later dropping fan favourites Wasted Years and Heaven Can Wait, not to mention only the second ever playthrough of Alexander The Great. Thankfully, the Czech Republic's capital city duly obliges this time. and Wasted Days and Wasted Nights albums all swiftly made no. "SCREAM FOR ME, PRAGUE!" he demands once more. 1 Contributor Wasted Days and Wasted Nights Lyrics Wasted days and wasted nights I have left for you behind For you dont belong to me Your heart belongs to someone else Why should I keep. Freddy rocked country with The Rains Came, the third single from his Rock'n' Country.
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