Along with Kiss's ALIVE!, Ozzy Osbourne's TRIBUTE, and Thin Lizzy's LIVE AND DANGEROUS, Iron Maiden's 1985 double-disc set LIVE AFTER DEATH ranks among the greatest heavy metal live albums. Most of the performances were recorded during an unprecedented quartet of shows at the Long Beach Arena in Los Angeles, CA, while several other tracks are from an earlier run of gigs in London's Hammersmith Odeon.
Only Maiden's very best songs are included, and the performances are consistently inspired. Such popular favourites as "Aces High", "2 Minutes to Midnight", "The Trooper", "Flight of Icarus", "The Number of the Beast", "Run to the Hills", "Running Free", and "Wrathchild" are included. But as longtime fans know, Maiden has always been an album-oriented band, and many of the band's greatest tracks were not singles, as evidenced by such lesser-known items as the 13-minute epic "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Powerslave", "Revelations", "22 Acacia Avenue", "Children of the Damned", and "Phantom of the Opera".|

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