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Iron maiden

Running free / Sanctuary
Running free
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Sanctuary
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Running free
Burning ambition
Sanctuary
Drifter
Listen with Nicko part I
Running free
Just sixteen, a pickup truck, out of money, out of luck.
I've got nowhere to call my own, hit the gas, and here I go.

I'm running free yeah, I'm running free.
I'm running free yeah, Oh I'm running free.

Spent the night in an L. A. jail, and listened to the sirens wail.
They ain't got a thing on me, I'm running wild, I'm running free.

I'm running free yeah, I'm running free.
I'm running free yeah, Oh I'm running free.

Puller here at the Bottle Top, whiskey, dancing, disco hop.
Now all the boys are after me, and that's the way it's gonna be.

I'm running free yeah, I'm running free.
I'm running free yeah, Oh I'm running free.
				
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Burning ambition
So you think you can own me, well you'd better just think again
You'd better watch your steps now, woman, cause I ain't like those other men
There's something burning inside me that makes me want to be free
And when I get these feelings honey, you better keep away from me

There's things in life now, baby, that I know I've got to do
And I need your love now, baby, to help me see it through
So you think you can own me, well you'd better just think again
You'd better watch your steps now, woman, cause I ain't like those other men

SOLO

So you think you can own me, well you'd better just think again
You'd better watch your steps now, woman, cause I ain't like those other men
There's something burning inside me that makes me want to be free
And when I get these feelings honey, you better keep away from me
				
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Sanctuary
Out of the route came a warhorse of steel. 
I've never killed a woman before, but I know how it feels. 

I know you'd have gone insane if you saw what I saw. 
So now I've got to look for sanctuary from the law. 
So give me sanctuary from the law and I'll be alright. 
Just give me sanctuary from the law and love me tonight, tonight. 

I met up with a stranger last night to keep me alive. 
He spends all his money on gambling and guns to survive. 

I can laugh at the wind, I can howl at the rain. 
Down in the Canyon or out in the plain. 
				
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Drifter
Walk away!

Look out now, baby won't you take me away,
Sittin' here its gonna be a new day.
Gotta sing my song and I can't go wrong,
Gotta keep on roaming, gotta sing my song.

What you feeling when you hold me tight?
I'm gonna cuddle up with you tonight, gonna get you feeling so secure.
listen child don't you see there's a cure?
Anywhere got to get you away, feels so good think it's gonna be a new day.
I'm gonna get my song till I can't go on,
I'm gonna keep on roaming gonna sing my song.

I want you to sing it, sing it, sing it, sing it along.
I want you to sing it, sing it, sing it, sing it along.
				
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Listen with Nicko part I
....What ho sed de ting! 

How you doing, you lot out there? Gosh! You, I guess you are now the proud owners of the
very first little box set of the re-released singles from Iron Maiden. Well, I've got to say this,
welcome to Not a lot of people know that, part 1. Cause here, I'm about to tell you a few
stories now and in the next nine releases of this here box sets, over the period of the next ten
weeks. Now look here, first of all, my goodness, it's ten years almost to the day...ooh little
chickadees out there, oh you've got your grubby little hands on Running Free, Burning
Ambition, oh gosh! The very first single! Sanctuary, Drifter, and I've Got The Fire, the
second singles..gosh! The first one was released, as I said, almost ten years to the very day
on February 8, 1980. 

Eh, I'll tell you something, right? You know 'Arry... 'Arry Harris, right, he had a band called
Gypsy's Kiss ....disgusting...and you know what that rhymes with doncha? Well if you don't,
I'm not gonna tell ya anyway so there. He had this song called Burning Ambition, which I
suppose was a real drive for 'Arry then because he was, you know, full of ambition to get his
music out and play it for people, and he had this song. And he was in this band Gypsies Kiss,
well they were, cause they couldn't handle this song. And they turned around and said "'Arry
you know look at all these chord changes and time changes", as he's famous for, and I
should know...come on, give us a break. So, he took the song... the band and they're going,
"come on 'Arry, gypsies kiss off will ya, I can't play that!" And he said, "allright, I've had
enough of this then, I'm gonna go find some people that can, so kiss you and all". So anyway
that's what he did. Not kiss them, no, he did the other thing, you know, what it rhymes with...
mm off. I'll say it, he pissed off, so there you go. Whatever. Now he went out and he formed
a band, and um..uuh, Burning Ambition was actually recorded late in 1979 and originally
featured the original drummer in fact of..in fact I think there was one guy before him...but
Doug Sampson was on drums in those days. Dave double tracked on guitars... you know, he
double tracked and all..he doesn't have to though, does he? You know what I'm saying. 

Well, ok, Running Free as well was also the first art work from Riggsy...RIGGSY! I tell
people I'm actually from another planet you know cause I'm a bit off the wall, well I'll tell you
this guy OWNS the other planet, my goodness! No god bless him, he's a diamond guy I love
him, what an artist! He first brought Eddie into the first sleeve on this the Running Free
single, and Eddie if you remember rightly was standing in the shadows, you never really saw
him. But uh, oh my goodness, he brought him out didn't he, on the first album all in his glory
and splendour, Eddie comes out and goes "yeeeeh I'm here," so watch out folks. Well there,
what can you say about it, Running Free, it's a song the band still to this day plays, it's one
of the truly great Iron Maiden songs, I mean not only just because it was their first single,
but...what a crack. 

And now then, well we've gone through that, Burning Ambition we talked about, on the
other side we got Sanctuary...on the other single rather, we've got Sanctuary, Drifter live,
and I've Got The Fire, an old Montrose song. Well this... this was the first top-30 entry
actually, it made number 29 and uh, oh you know the boys were really happy it was released
23rd of May 1980 god dearie me, it was a couple within a few months of one another... You
lucky boys and girls! Woah, as I said you've got one every week for ten weeks coming out
here...ah, oh well. This was recorded by the way...the live Drifter and I've Got The Fire,
was recorded in the Marquee in April 1980. And that was a good year, I've got a good drop
of wine at home made in 1980, yeah still got half a bottle left, it's really good. I've Got The
Fire, it's an old Montrose song as I said, and Steve liked it so he recorded it live, and it used
to be a set opener for the band in those days, but on the back of that they kind of got into the
deal of like not recording Iron Maiden songs on the b's, this was when the beginnings when
b-sides were other people's songs that the band decided to play. 

Anyway around this time, they uh, they didn't get top of the pops ...rotten buggers...but we
all know why, it's the bleedin BBC isn't it? Well you know we'll work out some sort of
abbreviation for that later on...but anyway they couldn't get on because there was some sort
of reaction, strikes and all that good stuff, you know what the BBC usually like to do... 

You! Move the broom!
Well, is he a labourer? No he f'king well ain't!
Well that's it, we're going on strike. Put your teacups up to your
face lads, lets go out to the canteen and have another drink... 
You know, whatever...Well what can you say, what can you say, strikes all around. So the
boys didn't get to play top of the pops -- that's no biggie, you know they never play the band
anyway do they? poxy BBC... 
Anyway funnily enough, around this time it the very first gig I ever did with Iron Maiden, no
not actually playing with them like as a full band. I played in a band called McKitty, and
these guys in McKitty...a guy called Donnovan McKitty himself, we did a gig in Belgium, and
it was in fact... not a lot of people know this...but it was in fact Maiden's very first European
gig, how about that, and I was there! So there! Hmm! Stuff that up your f'king pipe and
smoke it! Right! So there you go. I was really privileged to be there, and that's when I really
first met the band, we got on so well and we had such a riot....what can I say? 

Anyway, you remember the Sanctuary sleeve, you lot? Yeah...Maggie Thatcher...weeelll,
can you believe it, she was there, you know what she was trying to do...stupid cow... she
was trying to pull down an Iron Maiden poster off the wall. Well, what can you say about
that? Not a lot, believe me! She was...I dunno why they called her the iron maiden, do you?
Nothing like this....I know why! Maybe because she's like Eddie! Hahahaha! 

Listen! By the way I've got to tell you this little story real quick, allright, I'm running out of
time on this one but nevertheless... You remember Eddie, right? Course you remember
Eddie! Well this is the origin of Eddie, right. The band used to have this backdrop which
featured this theatrical mask and it sort of spat out all this red die and smoke and all that
gobby stuff and here's poor old Clive sitting under it getting gobbed on every night... "Oy!
what's all this?!", he's going, "What's all this red st...you know, this shit coming over my head,
I've had enough of that", eh....anything you could find, anything they could find they'd sling in
it. Anyway, they called him Eddie the Head, see, and it's after an old east-end joke that goes
as follows: 

Eddie was very unfortunate, he was born without a body. So
nevertheless, his parents loved him dearly and took him home and
placed him on the mantelpiece one day. Well, his family gave him
lots of love and attention and he always got loads of presents on
his birthday kind of...blowing things, and hats and all that kind of
stuff, wow... Anyway one year he was about 16, and the hospital
phoned up Eddie's parents and they said to them, "look, due to
modern technology and all those good things that we can do with
this stuff nowdays, we are now able to build Eddie a body." So,
the parents were soooo excited, they couldn't believe it, and they
couldn't wait to tell Eddie, I mean this is it, Eddie's gonna have a
body! Weeeha! However, as it was close to his birthday, they
decided to tell the doctors to go ahead and build his body, and
then they would surprise him, you know they weren't far away
from his birthday... well, a good birthday present, so anyway... A
few weeks later the big day arrived, yes, Eddie's birthday. So his
parents go up to him, and walked up to the mantelpiece and
"Hello Eddie, how you doin? This year is gonna to be the best
birthday yet! Have we got something for you, such a wonderful
present! And his mum's going "Oh goodness Eddie we're so
pleased!" And Eddie's going, "Oh no!" said Eddie, "Not another
fucking hat!" 

Hahahahaha! Oh, I think it's funny! Shit, it is! It's pretty good isn't it! Anyway, after
this...anyway, Derek came up with the creature Eddie and the body and that on the record
covers, and the name was just carried over and the rest is history isn't it? And Eddie's out
there, yet he's got to have a bit of nookie before long, that's all I can say. 
				
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