Iron Maiden - A Real Live One (1993)

A Real Live One is a live album by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released in March 1993. Despite this being a live album, it does not represent a single full concert. Instead, it was recorded at 9 different venues in Europe on the Fear of the Dark World Tour. This album features songs from the Somewhere in Time (1986) through Fear of the Dark (1992) eras, while A Real Dead One only contains songs from the pre-Somewhere in Time albums.

Though Live After Death remains the strongest documentation of Iron Maiden on-stage, A Real Live One isn't a bad listen at all. Maiden was a band that always believed in giving its audience a monster of a show, and on the whole, the CD (recorded everywhere from France and Italy to Denmark and Finland) does a good job capturing the type of excitement these imaginative gothic headbangers generated on-stage. The idea behind the album is to pick up where Live After Death left off and emphasize material recorded after 1985, and the Brits do exactly that with inspired versions of such favorites as "From Here to Eternity", "The Evil That Men Do", "Bring Your Daughter…to the Slaughter", and "The Clairvoyant". One could nitpick about various omissions, but the bottom line is that A Real Live One isn't an album Maiden devotees will want to pass up.

~ Alex Henderson, all media guide

Tracklist:

01. Be Quick Or Be Dead (Recorded at Super Rock 92, Mannheim, Germany, August 15, 1992)
02. From Here To Eternity (Recorded at The Valbyhallen, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 25, 1992)
03. Can I Play With Madness (Recorded at The Brabanthallen, Den Bosch, the Netherlands, September 2, 1992)
04. Wasting Love (Recorded at La Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris, France, September 5, 1992)
05. Tailgunner (Recorded at La Patinoire de Malley, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 4, 1992)
06. The Evil That Men Do (Recorded at Forest National, Brussels, Belgium, August 17, 1992)
07. Afraid To Shoot Strangers (Recorded at The Globe, Stockholm, Sweden, August 29, 1992)
08. Bring Your Daughter… To The Slaughter (Recorded at Helsinki Ice Hall, Finland, August 27, 1992)
09. Heaven Can Wait (Recorded at The Monsters of Rock Festival, Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy, September 12, 92)
10. The Clairvoyant (Recorded at Helsinki Ice Hall, Helsinki, Finland, August 27, 1992)
11. Fear Of The Dark (Recorded at Helsinki Ice Hall, Helsinki, Finland, August 27, 1992)


Produced & Mixed by Steve Harris
Engineered by Mick McKenna at Barnyard Studios, Essex
Additional musicians: Michael Kenney - keyboards

• Bruce Dickinson - vocals
• Dave Murray - guitar
• Janick Gers - guitar
• Steve Harris - bass
• Nicko McBrain - drums

Release Date: March 22, 1993
Format: Original Recording
Label: EMI Records Ltd.
Catalog No.: 781456-2