I know you guys probably wont want to read this, but if you are interested, this a Report on the Heavy metal band, "Iron Maiden"

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden...A British heavy metal band. They were apart of the "New wave of British heavy metal" Movement, which included other bands such as: Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath. Iron Maiden along with these bands influenced other, later metal bands, such as Metallica and other metal bands. But as for Iron Maiden, The band was formed in 1975, on Christmas day, Steve Harris; the bassist formed the band shortly after leaving his previous band.
Harris named the band after the movie "The Man in The Iron Mask" Harris and Dave Murray, the guitarist, are the longest living members of Iron Maiden. Their original vocalist, Paul Day, was fired; He lacked energy and "charisma" on stage. (He did really have a good voice all together.) Paul Day was replaced by Paul Di'Anno, a had a lot of energy and Charisma on-stage, amping the crowed up. Something Paul lacked.
Murray was invited because he was Dennis's friend. To this point Iron Maiden has been playing for three years, but have never recorded their music up to that point. On New Years Eve 1978, they recorded a demo, "The SoundHouse Tapes" featuring only 3 songs, selling all five thousand copies within a couple weeks. Murray was replaced by Paul Cairns in 1979. But shortly after joining, Cairns left the band. Many other guitarists were "temporary" eventually they settled on Dennis Stratton.
In 1980 they released "eponymous" it made #4 on the U.K charts in the first week, with that album they became the leading "proponent" of "The new wave of British heavy metal".They played the headline tour of U.K and opened for Kiss in October, 1980. they soon released a second album titled "Killers" This album contained a lot of tracks prior to the release of the debut album, on two songs were exclusively written for the album "Prodigal Son" and "Murders in the Morgue" In 1981 Bruce Dickinson former vocalist of "Samson" tried out for Iron maiden, joining that same year replacing Di'anno. After that, the band headed out a small tour playing songs such as "Run to the Hills" at selected Venues, showing people what musical direction they were going toward.
Dickinson's debut album, "Number of The beast" There first #1 album in the U.K, ever. The album went in the top 10 in many other countries. After that, The went on a world tour, touring countries such as: U.S, Canada, Germany, Japan, and Australlia. In 1982 their original drummer, Clive Burr left the bad due to "tour scheduling problems". He was replaced by Nicko McBrian, previously in a French band by the name of trust.
In 1983 the band releases "Peace of Mind" There first album to go platinum in the U.S. Following that success they released "PowerSlave" the following year Featuring songs such as: "Rime of Ancient Mariner" which stretched over 13 minutes in length. the "Live after Death" tour was so exhausting that the group took a 6 month break, once the tour ended.
After the break, the band adopted a different music approach to there studio album "Somewhere in Time". Near 1990 the band released "After ten years" ten years after releasing singles. a series of 10 CD's each part was released through Feb. 24th - Ap. 28th.
Later in the years Iron Maiden faced some rocky points in the future, and do this day, they are still playing music to this day.