A few days ago, an unconditional Iron Maiden fan decided to find out which words the band uses the most in their songs. Then, he published his results in Reddit. According to his research, and having covered the entire discography since the first studio album released in 1980, with a total of 16 albums; the result can be a bit disappointing.
According to their research, the keyword in the Iron Maiden discography is “Know”. Which may be unexciting, but it’s the numbers that do the talking. The word “Know” is followed by “Now” and “Time”, while “Die” is much further down the table.
A note at the bottom of the graph indicates that the 50 most common words in the English language were excluded. In this sense, words such as “the”, “a”, “in”, “on” were not counted. Also, the words that are repeated during a letter were counted only once – for example, the word “Die” is repeated eight times in each chorus of the song “Die With Your Boots On” from the Piece of Mind album; in this case it only counted as if it had appeared once throughout the topic -.
Iron Maiden and the problems of going on tour in Europe
During an appearance on Sky News, Dickinson said that Brexit is making it difficult for British artists to tour and concert in Europe and that the government should do more to help.
The 62-year-old singer commented the following; “Don’t get me started on the government’s attitude towards the entertainment industry. We’re probably one of the UK’s leading exports. I mean … come on. And yet we’re sitting here, we can’t do anything.”
In this regard, he continued; “It’s well known that I voted for Brexit. But, you know, the idea is that after you’ve done it, you go in and be sensible about the relationship you have with people. So right now, all this non-power nonsense play in Europe, and Europeans can’t play here, and work permits and all the rest of that crap … come on! You know, act together … Get a decent guy who can do something about the relationship with Europe. We can play in America more easily than in Europe right now … By the way, we have a sold-out tour, hundreds of thousands of people in Europe. What’s up with all that stuff? So let’s do it, government. ” .
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