Eddie's Head is a box set by Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in east London, formed in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. Since their inception, the band's discography has grown to include a total of thirty-six albums: fifteen studio albums; eleven live albums; four EPs; and six...

, in the shape of the head of their mascot, Eddie

Eddie the Head

Eddie, also known as Eddie The Head, is the mascot for the British heavy metal band, Iron Maiden. He is a perennial fixture of the group's artwork, appearing in all of their record covers and in their merchandise, which includes t-shirts, posters and action figures...

 and containing their first 12 albums remastered, from Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden (album)

*On the 1998 remastered release, the fade out of "Transylvania" and the intro to "Strange World" were moved to the end of "Transylvania".-Personnel:*Paul Di'Anno – vocals*Dave Murray – guitar*Dennis Stratton – guitar, backing vocals...

to Live at Donington, each with bonus multimedia material, plus a limited In Profile CD. The spine of each CD has a part of the original cover art for Iron Maiden.

This set has been out of print for years, prompting the price to skyrocket. However, all of the individual CDs that make up the disc have all been reissued on their own, making them easily attainable.

Disc: 1 (Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden (album)

*On the 1998 remastered release, the fade out of "Transylvania" and the intro to "Strange World" were moved to the end of "Transylvania".-Personnel:*Paul Di'Anno – vocals*Dave Murray – guitar*Dennis Stratton – guitar, backing vocals...

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1. "Prowler" (Steve Harris) – 3:56
2. "Sanctuary
   Sanctuary (Iron Maiden song)
   "Sanctuary" is the second single released by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. The single was released on 23 May 1980. The song was included in the US release of their debut album Iron Maiden but it was not included in the UK/European release...
   
   " (Paul Di'Anno, Steve Harris, Dave Murray) – 3:16 (not on original release)
3. "Remember Tomorrow" (Paul Di'Anno, Steve Harris) – 5:28
4. "Running Free
   Running Free
   "Running Free" was the first single released by Iron Maiden, released on 8 February 1980 on the 7" 45 rpm vinyl record format. It was written by Steve Harris and Paul Di'Anno...
   
   " (Paul Di'Anno, Steve Harris) – 3:17
5. "Phantom of the Opera" (Steve Harris) – 7:07
6. "Transylvania" (Steve Harris) – 4:19
7. "Strange World" (Steve Harris) – 5:32
8. "Charlotte the Harlot" (Dave Murray) – 4:12
9. "Iron Maiden
   Iron Maiden (song)
   "Iron Maiden" is a song by Iron Maiden on their debut album Iron Maiden. It was written by Steve Harris, and recorded with Paul Di'Anno on vocals, Clive Burr on drums, and Dennis Stratton and Dave Murray on guitars...
   
   " (Steve Harris) – 3:38

Disc: 2 (Killers

Killers (Iron Maiden album)

Killers is the second album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 2 February 1981 in the UK, and 6 June 1981 in the US. The album was their first with guitarist Adrian Smith and their last with vocalist Paul Di'Anno, who was sacked after problems with his stage performance arose due...

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1. "The Ides of March" (Harris) – 1:45
2. "Wrathchild" (Harris) – 2:54
3. "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (Harris) – 4:19
4. "Another Life" (Harris) – 3:22
5. "Genghis Khan" (Harris) – 3:06
6. "Innocent Exile" (Harris) – 3:53
7. "Killers" (Di'Anno, Harris) – 5:01
8. "Prodigal Son" (Harris) – 6:11
9. "Purgatory
   Purgatory (song)
   "Purgatory" is Iron Maiden's fifth single and only single from the Killers album . This song is a remake of a very early Iron Maiden song originally called "Floating" which they used to play live during 1976 to 1977. According to current drummer Nicko McBrain, "Purgatory" is a faster re-arrangement...
   
   " (Harris) – 3:21
10. "Twilight Zone
    Twilight Zone (Iron Maiden song)
    "Twilight Zone" was the fourth single by Iron Maiden, released on 2 March 1981. The song was also released in the United States as part of the album Killers, but was not included in the British release until the album was re-released in 1998....
    
    " (Harris, Murray) – 2:34 (not on original release)
11. "Drifter" (Harris) – 4:48

Disc: 3 (The Number of the Beast

The Number of the Beast (album)

The Number of the Beast is the third studio album by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 29 March 1982 through EMI and on its sister label Capitol the US. The 1998 re-issue was released by EMI and Sanctuary/Columbia in the US...

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1. "Invaders" (Harris) – 3:24
2. "Children of the Damned" (Harris) – 4:35
3. "The Prisoner" (Adrian Smith
   Adrian Smith
   Adrian Frederick "H" Smith is an English musician and one of three guitarists in the heavy metal band, Iron Maiden. He is also one of the band's regular songwriters and, along with bassist Steve Harris, performs backing vocals on some songs.-Biography:While at school, Smith purchased his first...
   
   , Harris) – 6:04
4. "22 Acacia Avenue" (Smith) – 6:37
5. "The Number of the Beast
   The Number of the Beast (song)
   "The Number of the Beast" is Iron Maiden's seventh single and the second single from Iron Maiden's 1982 album of the same name. The song is inspired by both a nightmare bandleader and bassist Steve Harris had after watching the movie Damien: Omen II, and the storyline of the poem Tam o' Shanter...
   
   " (Harris) – 4:48
6. "Run to the Hills
   Run to the Hills
   "Run to the Hills" was Iron Maiden's sixth single and the first single from their 1982 album The Number of the Beast. The lyrics clearly discuss the violence visited upon Native Americans in the Nineteenth Century. Several lines appear to address the Sioux Wars, a conflict between the Lakota...
   
   " (Harris) – 3:54
7. "Gangland" (Smith, Clive Burr
   Clive Burr
   Clive Burr is a British drummer, best known as a member of Iron Maiden from 1979 to 1982.-Career:Previously a member of Samson, Burr joined Iron Maiden in 1979...
   
   ) – 3:48
8. "Total Eclipse" (Harris, Dave Murray, Burr) - 4:25 (not on original release)
9. "Hallowed Be Thy Name
   Hallowed Be Thy Name
   "Hallowed Be Thy Name" is a song written by Steve Harris for the 1982 Iron Maiden album The Number of The Beast.The song includes 2 guitar solos: the first is played by Dave Murray,and second was played by Adrian Smith from 1982 until 1988.From 1990, second solo is played by Janick Gers...
   
   " (Harris) – 7:14

Disc: 4 (Piece of Mind

Piece of Mind

Piece of Mind is the fourth studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It was originally released in 1983 on EMI, and on Capitol in the US; it was reissued later on Sanctuary/Columbia Records...

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1. "Where Eagles Dare" (Harris) – 6:10
2. "Revelations" (Bruce Dickinson
   Bruce Dickinson
   Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English singer, songwriter, airline pilot, fencer, broadcaster, author, screenwriter, actor and marketing director, best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden....
   
   ) – 6:48
3. "Flight of Icarus
   Flight of Icarus
   "Flight of Icarus" is a 1983 song by Iron Maiden. It is the band's eighth single and the first from the album, Piece of Mind. It was the first single by Iron Maiden that was released in the United States...
   
   " (Smith, Dickinson) – 3:51
4. "Die With Your Boots On" (Smith, Dickinson, Harris) – 5:28
5. "The Trooper
   The Trooper
   "The Trooper" is a song written by Iron Maiden bass player Steve Harris. It is Iron Maiden's ninth single, and the second from their 1983 album Piece of Mind. The single was released on 20 June 1983...
   
   " (Harris) – 4:10
6. "Still Life" (Murray, Harris) – 4:53
7. "Quest for Fire" (Harris) – 3:41
8. "Sun and Steel" (Dickinson, Smith) – 3:26
9. "To Tame a Land" (Harris) – 7:27

Disc: 5 (Powerslave

Powerslave

Powerslave is the fifth studio album by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 3 September 1984 on EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in the US ....

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1. "Aces High
   Aces High (song)
   "Aces High" is a song by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, written by bassist Steve Harris. It is Iron Maiden's eleventh single and the second from the 1984 studio album Powerslave...
   
   " (Harris) – 4:29
2. "2 Minutes to Midnight
   2 Minutes to Midnight
   "2 Minutes to Midnight" is the second track from British heavy metal band Iron Maiden's fifth album Powerslave. It was released as the band's tenth single on 6 August 1984 and rose to number 11 in the UK Singles Chart and number 25 on Billboard Top Album Tracks.The song was written by Adrian Smith...
   
   " (Dickinson, Smith) – 5:59
3. "Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)" (Instrumental) (Harris) – 4:12
4. "Flash of the Blade" (Dickinson) – 4:02
5. "The Duellists" (Harris) – 6:06
6. "Back in the Village" (Dickinson, Smith) – 5:20
7. "Powerslave" (Dickinson) – 6:47
8. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (Harris) – 13:34

Disc: 6 (Live After Death

Live After Death

Live After Death was well received by the music press, with Kerrang! describing it as "possibly the greatest live album of all time." Allmusic shared this sentiment, describing Live After Death as "easily one of heavy metal's best live albums."...

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1. "Intro: Churchill's Speech" – 1:32
2. "Aces High" – 4:14
3. "2 Minutes to Midnight" – 5:16
4. "The Trooper" – 4:07
5. "Revelations" – 5:59
6. "Flight of Icarus" – 3:30
7. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" – 14:06
8. "Powerslave" – 6:54
9. "The Number of the Beast" – 4:49
10. "Hallowed Be Thy Name" – 7:14
11. "Iron Maiden" – 4:02
12. "Run to the Hills" – 3:50
13. "Running Free" – 4:08

Disc: 7 (Live After Death)

1. "Wrathchild" – 2:58
2. "22 Acacia Avenue" – 4:58
3. "Children of the Damned" – 4:21
4. "Die With Your Boots On" – 5:39
5. "Phantom of the Opera" – 7:01

Disc: 8 (Somewhere in Time)

1. "Caught Somewhere in Time" (Harris) – 7:25
2. "Wasted Years
   Wasted Years
   "Wasted Years" is the fourteenth single released by Iron Maiden and the first from their Somewhere in Time album. It's the only song on the album that features no synthesizers. Released in 1986, it was the first single solely written by guitarist Adrian Smith, who also sings backing vocals...
   
   " (Smith) – 5:07
3. "Sea of Madness" (Smith) – 5:42
4. "Heaven Can Wait" (Harris) – 7:21
5. "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (Harris) – 6:31
6. "Stranger in a Strange Land
   Stranger in a Strange Land (song)
   "Stranger in a Strange Land" is the second single by Iron Maiden from their 1986 album Somewhere in Time. The song is unrelated to Robert A. Heinlein's novel by the same name. The lyrics are about an Arctic explorer who dies and is frozen in the ice. After a hundred years his body is found...
   
   " (Smith) – 5:44
7. "Déjà Vu" (Harris, Murray) – 4:56
8. "Alexander the Great" (Harris) – 8:37

Disc: 9 (Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is the seventh studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released in 1988 by EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in the US...

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1. "Moonchild" (Smith, Dickinson) – 5:39
2. "Infinite Dreams
   Infinite Dreams
   "Infinite Dreams" is a live single released in 1989 by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It is the only single to be released from a home video, 1988's Maiden England. The performance was recorded in Birmingham, England in November 1988 towards the end of the massive world tour to support...
   
   " (Harris) – 6:09
3. "Can I Play with Madness
   Can I Play with Madness
   "Can I Play with Madness" was the sixteenth single released by Iron Maiden. Released in 1988, it is the first single from the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album and hit number 3 in the UK charts. The song is about a young man who wants to learn the future from an old prophet with a crystal ball...
   
   " (Smith, Dickinson, Harris) – 3:31
4. "The Evil That Men Do
   The Evil That Men Do (song)
   "The Evil That Men Do" was released in 1988 by Iron Maiden. It is the band's seventeenth single and the second from their Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album. The single debuted at number six in the UK charts and quickly rose to number five...
   
   " (Smith, Dickinson, Harris) – 4:34
5. "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" (Harris) – 9:53
6. "The Prophecy" (Murray, Harris) – 5:05
7. "The Clairvoyant
   The Clairvoyant (song)
   "The Clairvoyant" was released in 1988 by Iron Maiden. It is the band's nineteenth single and the third from their Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album. The single, which was also released as a clear vinyl, debuted at number six in the UK charts...
   
   " (Harris) – 4:27
8. "Only the Good Die Young" (Harris, Dickinson) – 4:41

Disc: 10 (No Prayer for the Dying

No Prayer for the Dying

Reviews for the album were generally poor, with Allmusic commenting that "the songwriting wasn't up to snuff when compared to such classics as Killers or Number of the Beast" and "as a whole doesn't measure up to the hits." Sputnikmusic were equally negative, stating that "No Prayer for the Dying...

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1. "Tailgunner" (Dickinson, Harris) – 4:15
2. "Holy Smoke
   Holy Smoke (song)
   "Holy Smoke" is Iron Maiden's 21st single and the first to feature guitarist Janick Gers, who joined the band in mid-1990. It was released just weeks before the album, No Prayer for the Dying, and climbed to number three on the UK Singles Chart...
   
   " (Dickinson, Harris) – 3:49
3. "No Prayer for the Dying" (Harris) – 4:23
4. "Public Enema Number One" (Dickinson, Murray) – 4:13
5. "Fates Warning" (Harris, Murray) – 4:12
6. "The Assassin" (Harris) – 4:35
7. "Run Silent Run Deep" (Dickinson, Harris) – 4:35
8. "Hooks in You" (Dickinson, Smith) – 4:08
9. "Bring Your Daughter...To the Slaughter" (Dickinson) – 4:45
10. "Mother Russia" (Harris) – 5:32

Disc: 11 (Fear of the Dark)

1. "Be Quick or Be Dead
   Be Quick or Be Dead
   "Be Quick or Be Dead" is the first single from the Iron Maiden album Fear of the Dark, released in 1992. The song is about several political scandals taking place at the time of its release, including the Robert Maxwell banking scandal, European stock market crashes, and the BCCI case...
   
   " (Dickinson, Janick Gers
   Janick Gers
   Janick Robert Gers is an English musician, best known for being one of the three current guitarists in Iron Maiden, along with Dave Murray and Adrian Smith, as well as his earlier work with Gillan and White Spirit.-Career and Personal Life:...
   
   ) – 3:24
2. "From Here to Eternity
   From Here to Eternity (Iron Maiden song)
   "From Here to Eternity" is the second single from the Iron Maiden album Fear of the Dark, released in 1992. The song is the fourth and most recent song in the ongoing saga of "Charlotte the Harlot" "From Here to Eternity" is the second single from the Iron Maiden album Fear of the Dark, released in...
   
   " (Harris) – 3:38
3. "Afraid to Shoot Strangers" (Harris) – 6:56
4. "Fear is the Key" (Dickinson, Gers) – 5:35
5. "Childhood's End" (Harris) – 4:40
6. "Wasting Love
   Wasting Love
   "Wasting Love" is the third single from the Iron Maiden album Fear of the Dark, released in 1992. This song represents Iron Maiden's first and currently only power ballad released as a single to date....
   
   " (Dickinson, Gers) – 5:50
7. "The Fugitive" (Harris) – 4:54
8. "Chains of Misery" (Murray, Dickinson) – 3:37
9. "The Apparition" (Harris, Gers) – 3:54
10. "Judas Be My Guide" (Dickinson, Murray) – 3:08
11. "Weekend Warrior" (Harris, Gers) – 5:39
12. "Fear of the Dark
    Fear of the Dark (song)
    "Fear of the Dark" is a song written by Steve Harris, bass player and main songwriter for Iron Maiden, as the title track to Iron Maiden's 1992 album Fear of the Dark...
    
    " (Harris) – 7:18

Disc: 12 (A Real Dead One

A Real Dead One

A Real Dead One is a live album by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, recorded in 1992/93 at concerts across Europe, and released on 25 October 1993...

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1. "Number of the Beast"
2. "Trooper"
3. "Prowler"
4. "Transylvania"
5. "Remember Tomorrow"
6. "Where Eagles Dare"
7. "Sanctuary"
8. "Running Free"
9. "Run to the Hills"
10. "2 Minutes to Midnight"
11. "Iron Maiden"
12. "Hallowed Be Thy Name"

Disc: 13 (A Real Live One

A Real Live One

A Real Live One is a live album by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released in March 1993. The album tracks were recorded at 9 different venues in Europe on the Fear of the Dark World Tour...

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1. "Be Quick or Be Dead"
2. "From Here to Eternity"
3. "Can I Play with Madness"
4. "Wasting Love"
5. "Tailgunner"
6. "Evil That Men Do"
7. "Afraid to Shoot Strangers"
8. "Bring Your Daughter.. To the Slaughter"
9. "Heaven Can Wait"
10. "The Clairvoyant"
11. "Fear of the Dark"

Disc: 14 (Live at Donington)

1. "Be Quick or Be Dead"
2. "Number of the Beast"
3. "Wrathchild"
4. "From Here to Eternity"
5. "Can I Play with Madness"
6. "Wasting Love"
7. "Tailgunner"
8. "Evil That Men Do"
9. "Afraid to Shoot Strangers"
10. "Fear of the Dark"
11. "Bring Your Daughter.. To the Slaughter"
12. "Clairvoyant"
13. "Heaven Can Wait"
14. "Run to the Hills"

Disc: 15 (Live at Donington)

1. "2 Minutes to Midnight"
2. "Iron Maiden"
3. "Hallowed Be Thy Name"
4. "The Trooper"
5. "Sanctuary"
6. "Running Free"

Disc: 16 (In Profile)

Written and narrated by Mike Hurst

Mike Hurst (producer)

Mike Hurst is an English musician and record producer.-Biography:...

. Features excerpts of various songs, and interviews with Steve Harris, Dave Murray, Rod Smallwood

Rod Smallwood

Rod Smallwood, co-manager of the British band Iron Maiden and co-founder in 1976 of then Smallwood-Taylor Enterprises, today Sanctuary Group which is the world's largest music management company. The company was named after the Maiden song by the same name...

 and Blaze Bayley

Blaze Bayley

Blaze Bayley is an English singer and songwriter. He has been the lead singer of Wolfsbane from 1984 to 1994, and nowadays since their recent reunion. Blaze is however world-known for having been the lead singer of British metal band Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999...

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1. "Pt. 1: Early Maiden Days"
2. "Pt. 2: Groundwork"
3. "Pt. 3: Ascendancy"
4. "Pt. 4: Supremacy"
5. "Pt. 5: Legends"

Personnel

• Blaze Bayley
  Blaze Bayley
  Blaze Bayley is an English singer and songwriter. He has been the lead singer of Wolfsbane from 1984 to 1994, and nowadays since their recent reunion. Blaze is however world-known for having been the lead singer of British metal band Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999...
  
   - vocals (disc 16)
• Martin Birch
  Martin Birch
  Martin Birch is a British rock and heavy metal music producer, who became renowned for engineering and producing albums by the British rock bands Deep Purple and Iron Maiden....
  
   – producer, engineer, mixing (discs 2-11)
• Albert Boekholt – assistant engineer
• Clive Burr
  Clive Burr
  Clive Burr is a British drummer, best known as a member of Iron Maiden from 1979 to 1982.-Career:Previously a member of Samson, Burr joined Iron Maiden in 1979...
  
   – drums (discs 1-3)
• Sean Burrows – assistant engineer
• George Chin – photography
• Paul Di'Anno
  Paul Di'Anno
  Paul Andrews , better known as Paul Di'Anno, is an English singer best known as the first vocalist to record with the iconic heavy metal band Iron Maiden, from 1978 to 1981....
  
   – vocals (discs 1-2)
• Bruce Dickinson
  Bruce Dickinson
  Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English singer, songwriter, airline pilot, fencer, broadcaster, author, screenwriter, actor and marketing director, best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden....
  
   – vocals (discs 3-15)
• Robert Ellis – photography
• Paul Foster – executive producer
• Simon Fowler – photography
• Janick Gers
  Janick Gers
  Janick Robert Gers is an English musician, best known for being one of the three current guitarists in Iron Maiden, along with Dave Murray and Adrian Smith, as well as his earlier work with Gillan and White Spirit.-Career and Personal Life:...
  
   – guitar (discs 10-15)
• Frank Gibson – assistant engineer
• Hugh Gilmour – art direction, reissue design
• Nigel Green – engineer
• Ross Halfin – photography
• Denis Haliburton – assistant engineer
• Steve Harris
  Steve Harris (musician)
  Stephen Percy "Steve" Harris is an English musician and songwriter, known as the bassist, occasional keyboardist, backing vocalist and primary songwriter of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, which he founded in 1975...
  
   – bass, vocals, (discs 1-15) producer, mixing (discs 11-15)
• Simon Heyworth – remastering
• Mike Hurst – narrator, liner notes (disc 16)
• Guido Karp – photography
• Michael Kenney – keyboards (discs 9-15)
• Martin Levan – engineer
• Will Malone – producer (disc 1)
• George Marino – mastering
• Nicko McBrain
  Nicko McBrain
  Michael Henry "Nicko" McBrain is an English musician, best known as the drummer for Iron Maiden, which he joined in 1982, prior to which he had played for Streetwalkers, Pat Travers, and the French political band, Trust.-Biography:...
  
   - drums (discs 4-15)
• Mick McKenna – engineer, assistant engineer
• Tony Mottram – photography
• Dave Murray
  Dave Murray (musician)
  David Michael Murray is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as one of the earliest members of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden.-Biography:...
  
   – guitar (discs 1-15)
• Denis O'Regan – photography
• Ronald Prent – assistant engineer
• Derek Riggs
  Derek Riggs
  Derek Riggs is a contemporary British artist best known for creating the heavy metal music band Iron Maiden's mascot, "Eddie the Head".-Career:...
  
   – cover illustration, sleeve design, sleeve idea (discs 1-15)
• Gus Shaw – mastering
• Rod Smallwood
  Rod Smallwood
  Rod Smallwood, co-manager of the British band Iron Maiden and co-founder in 1976 of then Smallwood-Taylor Enterprises, today Sanctuary Group which is the world's largest music management company. The company was named after the Maiden song by the same name...
  
   – photography, concept, sleeve design, sleeve idea
• Adrian Smith
  Adrian Smith
  Adrian Frederick "H" Smith is an English musician and one of three guitarists in the heavy metal band, Iron Maiden. He is also one of the band's regular songwriters and, along with bassist Steve Harris, performs backing vocals on some songs.-Biography:While at school, Smith purchased his first...
  
   – guitar, vocals (discs 2-9, 15)
• Dennis Stratton
  Dennis Stratton
  Dennis Stratton is a guitar player who is best known as a former member of the British band Iron Maiden from October 1979 to October 1980.-Biography:...
  
  – guitar, vocals (disc 1)
• Stephane "The Vardengrip" Wissner – engineer
• Roger Woodhead – executive producer
• Tim Young – mastering