Iron Maiden trivia
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Trivia for the band Iron Maiden.
- Bruce Dickinson and Eddie did a public service announcement for British television with "The Seat Belt Dummies" in 1991. The seat belt dummies were in the audience playing air guitar and Eddie is shown. The dummies remark that, "if you don't wear your seatbelt, you may end up looking like this (points to Eddie)". At the end, Bruce says "Don't forget, buckle your safety belt, mate."
- Iron Maiden is referenced prominently in the lyrics to the 2000 hit "Teenage Dirtbag" by American punk-pop group Wheatus. The song tells of a lonely, nerdy teenage boy who secretly yearns for a pretty female classmate, Noelle, while listening to Iron Maiden. Noelle later surprises him by declaring herself to be a "teenage dirtbag" too, and inviting him to join her at an Iron Maiden concert. Bruce Dickinson returned the favour by singing on Wheatus' third single "Wannabe Gangstar".
- The band is mentioned several times in episodes of Beavis and Butt-head. Songs featured include "The Prisoner", "From Here to Eternity", and "Running Free".
- The multi-platform video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 features "The Number of the Beast" as a song on the game's soundtrack. The game also includes Eddie as an unlockable skater. [1]
- The upcoming Nintendo Wii video game Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam will have "Different World" as a song on the game's soundtrack.
- The Nickelodeon TV show, "The Fairly Odd Parents," featured a villain called "the Iron Maiden" that fought briefly against Timmy's favorite super hero, "The Crimson Chin." It was made to look like a giant robotic maid. In order to help viewers understand the reference, the Crimson Chin taunts, "Your days of heavy metal terror are over, Iron Maiden!"
- Phoebe Buffay, the popular primary character played by Lisa Kudrow on the successful American sitcom Friends, says she's "working on a couple Iron Maiden covers" when asked about the kind of music she plays (season 9, episode 3).
- In the movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted travel back in time to medieval England, and are caught talking with the King's daughters. The King decides to "put them in the Iron Maiden" at which point Bill and Ted look at each other and say, "Iron Maiden?! EXCELLENT!" and then play a few notes on the air guitar. Later in the movie, Bill and Ted break into Ted's father's police station to break out some of the historical figures by using a tape recorder with Ted's voice. At the end of the tape, Bill and Ted exclaim together, "Now opening for Iron Maiden: The Wyld Stalyns!".
- In the movie "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" the oldest boy is in his room with his friends and on his door is a poster with Eddie on a motorcycle
- In adventure game Escape from Monkey Island, when players make Guybrush look at the iron maiden in the jail on Lucre Island, the "Bill and Ted" quote is referenced by him proclaiming "Iron Maiden?! EXCELLENT!".
- In the movie Bull Durham, minor league pitcher "Nuke" LaLoosh, played by actor Tim Robbins, can be glimpsed wearing an Iron Maiden "World Slavery Tour" t-shirt while talking on the team bus with Kevin Costner's character, Crash Davis.
- In the computer and video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the song "2 Minutes to Midnight" is played by the V-Rock radio station. Also, the "ROCK" in the logo of V-Rock is written using the angular font used in the Iron Maiden logo. The player can also see a parody of Eddie on posters on the concert hall in the downtown area of Vice City. The angular Iron Maiden font is also used for the title of the Love Fist's latest tour, The Steel Heart Stone Cold Prostate Tour, which the game states as "the world tour that has been banned throughout the world". The Iron Maiden logo, allegedly designed by Steve Harris, has been expanded to encompass the alphabet and has been used in projects from "heavy metal" compilations sold in music stores to the VH1 "Metal Month" promotions.
- Several computer viruses contain references to the band, such as the "Seventh Son", "Evil Men" and "V800" infections.
- Phantom of the Opera was used in two UK television commercials in the late 80s to mid 90s. One commercial for KFC saw Colonel Sanders bungee jump as the music speeds up while letting his audience know of his latest offerings. The second, and more well known, was a commercial for Lucozade where we see Daley Thompson preparing to race (albeit as a training exercise) and, once again as the music speeds up, he is seen sprinting from his starting blocks.
- Canadian pop-punk band Sum 41 made reference to Iron Maiden and Judas Priest in the hit single Fat Lip where they state:
- "Heavy metal and mullets, it's how we were raised.
- Maiden and Priest were the gods that we praised."
- As well, in their music video for "In Too Deep" former guitarist/singer Dave Brownsound is wearing an Iron Maiden "The Trooper" t-shirt.
- "Aces High", "Be Quick or Be Dead", "Man on the Edge" and "The Trooper" were featured in the video game Carmageddon II.
- Japanese pro wrestler Akitoshi Saito uses "Ghost of the Navigator" as his theme song.
- Iron Maiden's signature font is used for Heavy Metal and Hard Rock reference and even skate/snowboarding sub-culture. [2]
- Jimmy Savile reputedly played a piano version of the song "Afraid to Shoot Strangers" [3]
- Nicko McBrain appeared as a guest star on the long running British children's show 'The Sooty Show' on the episode "Hidden Talent". The highlight being a battle of the drums between the Iron Maiden drummer against Sooty and Sweep.
- The character Lord Raptor of Capcom's Darkstalkers videogame series was based on Maiden's Eddie.
- In the First Person Shooter computer video game Delta Force II, single-player cheats are titles of Iron Maiden songs from the Piece of Mind album, such as thetrooper, diewithyourbootson, revelations.
- In the "This Week" section of New Scientist magazine 25th of March, 2005, an article regarding one of the Mars Landers was headlined "Limp to the Hills"
- "Run to the Hills" was the main theme song on SSX on Tour.
- On Little Nicky the first time you see John and Pete (the two who worship Nicky), Pete is wearing an X-Factor album t-shirt. Also on the documentaries, on Satan's Top 40 they mention the The Number of the Beast album.
- On the British television channel Sky One, Bruce Dickinson presented a program called "Inside Human Spontaneous Combustion".
- VH1 has made a commercial featuring a cardboard-cutout monster and a kitten that uses the song "Run to the Hills".
- The font on Music Choice's Arena Rock station consists of Iron Maiden's font.
- Emma Griffiths wore a Live After Death top for several of the photographs in her 2005 FHM 'Girls of FHM' photoshoot, alongside other heavy metal icons such as Motörhead.
- In the 1999 American Film Entrapment starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones. In one scene where Virginia Baker trades with Conrad Greene. in the background there is a poster of Iron Maiden's Virtual XI album was shown. This was Iron Maiden's latest album at the time during the filming of the movie
