Rod Smallwood, co-manager of
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band,
Iron MaidenIron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in East London, formed in 1975. The band are directed by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris...
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. His business partner is
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, who he met when students at
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.
Prior to managing Iron Maiden, Smallwood managed
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.
The Iron Maiden
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"Sheriff of
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" was written by Iron Maiden about Rod Smallwood, and was released on the 1986 single "
Wasted Years"Wasted Years" is the fourteenth single released by Iron Maiden and the first from their Somewhere in Time album. Released in 1986, it was the first single to be written by guitarist Adrian Smith alone. It reached number 18 in the UK charts. The cover depicts Eddie's point of view as he flies a...
".
Rod Smallwood, co-manager of
heavy metalHeavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States...
band,
Iron MaidenIron Maiden are an English heavy metal band from Leyton in East London, formed in 1975. The band are directed by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris...
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. His business partner is
Andy TaylorAndy Taylor, co-manager of heavy metal band, Iron Maiden and co-founder in 1976 of Sanctuary Records, which described itself, as of January 2007, as the UK's largest independent record company, one of the world's leading developers of music intellectual property rights and the world's largest...
, who he met when students at
Trinity College, CambridgeTrinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 160 Fellows ....
.
Prior to managing Iron Maiden, Smallwood managed
Steve Harley & Cockney RebelSteve Harley & Cockney Rebel are an English rock band from the early 1970s. Their music covers a range of styles from pop to progressive rock. Over the years they have had five albums in the UK Albums Chart and twelve singles in the UK Singles Chart.-Career:...
.
The Iron Maiden
b-sideA-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...
"Sheriff of
Huddersfield Huddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city.Huddersfield is near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme...
" was written by Iron Maiden about Rod Smallwood, and was released on the 1986 single "
Wasted Years"Wasted Years" is the fourteenth single released by Iron Maiden and the first from their Somewhere in Time album. Released in 1986, it was the first single to be written by guitarist Adrian Smith alone. It reached number 18 in the UK charts. The cover depicts Eddie's point of view as he flies a...
". It likens Smallwood to the
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, due to his notorious stinginess with money, and refers to his frequent complaining about a (then recent) move to
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. Smallwood didn't know about the song until the single was released.
The cover of "Space Station No. 5" (B side from the single "Be quick or be dead" from "Fear of the dark" also contains Bruce's imitation of Rodney.