3x12” Mint- Iron Maiden Aces High Running Free Stranger In A Strange Land Japan

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What you might decide to bid on here are 3 Japanese Pressed 12” and Maxi Singles by Iron Maiden, They Have Inserts but no posters or Obi’s.

Aces High
Maxi Single (Japan)

Running Free
1985 12” Live Single (Japan)

Stranger In A Strange Land
Maxi Single (Japan)

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Iron Maiden

Aces High

1984 – Japanese Pressing
EMS-50148
Maxi Single
Insert

Track Listing

Side 1

1 - "Aces High" (Steve Harris) - 4:31
2 - "The Number of the Beast" (live in Dortmund - 18 December 1983) (Harris) - 4:56

Side 2

1 - "King of Twilight" (Nektar Cover) - 4:57
2 - "Rainbow's Gold" (Beckett cover; Terry Slesser, Kenny Mountain) - 4:50
3 - "Cross-Eyed Mary" (Jethro Tull Cover) - 3:52

-Rainbow´s Gold from the "2 Minutes To Midnight"-12" that was never released in Japan, originally performed by Beckett
and
-Cross-Eyed Mary by Jethro Tull taken from the US-only Picture-Disc release of "Piece Of Mind". Also is the B-side of "The Trooper".

Personnel

Bruce Dickinson - Vocals
Dave Murray - Guitar
Adrian Smith - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Steve Harris - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
Nicko Mcbrain - Drums

Description & Condition

Artist: Iron Maiden
Title: Aces High
Record Company: EMI Records Ltd / Toshiba-EMI in Japan
Catalogue Number: EMS-50148
Matrix Information: Side 1 – EMS-50148-A (1S 5 5-3) Side 2 – EMS-50148-B (1S 12)
Release Date: 22 October 1984
Original Price: ¥1,800
Obi Strip: Missing in Action -
Cover: The Original Heavy Card Cover. This has no splits, tears or seams coming undone. The spine is standing proud. Mint-
Insert: One Original insert which is 1 page 2 side long. This has information in Japanese, a track listing in English and Japanese and lyrics in English. This has no rips, tears, creases or splits, but a little light orange spot bottom middle.
Vinyl Condition: This has got no Scratches, Scuffs or Marks and I would say that this is the closest you can get to being mint without actually being mint. Mint-
Bar Code: No Bar Code

"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. The song tells the story of a British RAF pilot fighting against the German Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1940), the first battle to be completely fought by aircraft.
Aces High is one of Iron Maiden's most popular songs, and has been covered numerous times, by bands including Arch Enemy and Children of Bodom. It was released as a single over a month after Powerslave came out. It was featured on the video game Madden NFL 10 as part of the game's soundtrack and on the MTV show Nitro Circus, it also features in Steve Peat's segment on the mountain bike film on New World Disorder III. Colin Mckay used it on his part of the skate video Plan B Questionable as well.
When performed live - as seen in among others, Live After Death and Iron Maiden: Flight 666 - it is usually preceded by Winston Churchill's famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech with the sound of planes in the background.
The first B-side is a cover of Nektar's "King of Twilight", from their 1972 album A Tab in the Ocean. Their cover is actually a medley of the songs "Crying in the Dark" and "King of Twilight", the last two songs on the album.
The Japanese 12" was mixed with the B-side covers from "The Trooper" & "2 Minutes To Midnight" singles, which for some reason don't seem to have been released there.

Iron Maiden

Running Free

1985 – Japanese Pressing
S14-120
1985 Live 12” Single
Insert

Track Listing

Side 1

1."Running Free" - 3:26
(live - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California 14-17 March 1985)
Written by - Di'Anno, Harris

Side 2

1."Sanctuary" - 4:38
(live - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California 14-17 March 1985)
Written by - Iron Maiden
2."Murders In The Rue Morgue" - 4:31
(live - Hammersmith Odeon, London 8-12 October 1984)
Written by - Harris

Personnel

Bruce Dickinson – Vocals
Dave Murray – Guitar
Adrian Smith – Guitar, Backing Vocals
Steve Harris – Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
Nicko Mcbrain – Drums

Description & Condition

Artist: Iron Maiden
Title: Running Free
Record Company: EMI Records Ltd / Toshiba-EMI in Japan
Catalogue Number: S14-120
Matrix Information: Side 1 – 12EMI-5532 A (1S 5 5-7) Side 2 – 12EMI-5532 B (1S 7)
Release Date: 13 September 1985
Original Price: ¥1,400
Obi Strip: Missing in Action -
Cover: The Original Heavy Card Cover. This has no splits, tears or seams coming undone. The spine is standing proud. Mint-
Insert: One Original insert which is 1 page 2 sides long. This has a track listing in English and Japanese and lyrics in English. This has no rips, tears, creases or splits, but a little light staining at two corners on the rear which is blank.
Vinyl Condition: This has got no Scratches, Scuffs or Marks and I would say that this is the closest you can get to being mint without actually being mint. Mint-
Bar Code: No Bar Code

"Running Free" is the debut single 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. The song appears as the third track on the band's debut album Iron Maiden (and the fourth track on its 1998 re-release). In 1985, a live version of the song was released as the first single from Live After Death (the band's twelfth single).

Iron Maiden

Stranger In A Strange Land

1986 – Japanese Pressing
Laser Etched both Sides
S19-5009
Maxi Single
Insert

Track Listing

Side 1

1. “Stranger In A Strange Land”
Written-By – Smith
2. “Juanita”
Written-By – D. O'Neil, S. Barnacle

Side 2

1. “Reach Out”
Written-By – Colwell
2. “Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)” - Recorded Live At Hammersmith , Oct 1984
Written-By – S.Harris
3. “Sheriff Of Huddersfield”
Written-By – Iron Maiden

Vinyl is etched with "Iron Maiden Somewhere on Tour '87 " around the outside both sides.

Personnel

Bruce Dickinson – Vocals
Dave Murray – Synthesized Guitar
Adrian Smith – Synthesized Guitar
Steve Harris – Bass Guitar
Nicko Mcbrain – Drums

Credits

Engineer – Martin Birch
Illustration By – Derek Riggs
Photography – Ross Halfin
Producer – Martin Birch

Cover Note

"The android with no name walked into the crowded spaceport bar, eight foot tall, with death in his cold android eyes, he strode across the room. Small green aliens scuttled out of his path, fearsome martian warriors would not meet his gaze and the air froze when he croaked in his dark gravelly voice, ‘A pint of bitter please, mate’."

Description & Condition

Artist: Iron Maiden
Title: Stranger In A Strange Land
Record Company: EMI Records Ltd / Toshiba-EMI in Japan
Catalogue Number: S19-5009
Matrix Information: Side 1 – S19-5009-A (1S2 6 7-3) Side 2 – S19-5009-B (1S24)
Release Date: 22 November 1986
Original Price: ¥1,900
Obi Strip: Missing in Action -
Cover: The Original Heavy Card Cover. This has no splits, tears or seams coming undone. The spine is standing proud. But has had stickers or something like that on which have been removed and left marks and there is 4 scored marks on the front bottom right corner for some reason (See Pictures) EX
Insert: One Original insert which is 1 page 2 side long. This has a track listing and lyrics in English and Japanese and some information in Japanese. This has no rips, tears, creases or splits, but has what was once clear tape now discoloured along one edge on both sides.
Vinyl Condition: This has got no Scratches, Scuffs or Marks. Mint-
Bar Code: T4988 006 61192 4

"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 preserved by other people exploring there. Adrian Smith was inspired to write about this song after talking to an explorer who had had a similar experience of discovering a frozen body.
The guitar solo in "Stranger in a Strange Land" is played by Adrian Smith. The song is one of only three Iron Maiden songs to fade out, the other being "The Prophecy" from Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and "Women in Uniform", a single included on some pressings of Killers. The lyrics "no brave new world" were also present in Iron Maiden's 2000 studio release, Brave New World.

Cover Details

Eddie's appearance on the single cover is an homage to the Clint Eastwood character "Man with No Name". Though it can also be seen as a mixture of "Deckard" from Blade Runner and "Man with No Name". This version of Eddie would later be used in the Camp Chaos music video for "Run to the Hills".
In the top-right corner of the cover (slightly right of Eddie's lit match), the time on the clock appears as "11:58". This is a reference to a previous Iron Maiden single, "2 Minutes to Midnight".
Several cards can be seen falling from the table. One, (orange background, next to red coloured card) contains a picture of the Grim Reaper, like that on the Trooper cover.
Just under one of the stacks of cards, on the edge of the table, Derek Riggs' signature can be seen.
In the music video for a later song, "The Angel and the Gambler" (from Virtual XI), then-singer Blaze Bayley dressed up like this Eddie.

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