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How many of their songs are movie titles too?

posted 6 years ago by NotoriousRio (12927)
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I can think of a dozen and I'm sure there's a few more of their songs that share movie titles too, films that I'm unaware of but I can't think of any other band to share so many movie titles with their songs as the great Iron Maiden do!

Here’s some of them:

The Wicker Man
The Man Who Would Be King
From Here To Eternity
Where Eagles Dare
The Fugitive
The Assassin
Heaven Can Wait
Phantom of the Opera
Children Of The Damned
Lord of the Flies
When the Wind Blows
Genghis Khan

[–] Moonglum9 (11320) 5 years ago

Their songs share quite a few titles with books as well.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 5 years ago

Steve Harris is a well read man and a bit of a movie buff it seems!

[–] BuckSwope (3511) 5 years ago

Pretty good bass player as well.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 4 years ago

And writer of songs too!

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I bet Queen have got a few , a lot of their titles seem to be designed to be advert taglines

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 5 years ago

Brighton Rock! 😎

[–] R_Kane (15828) 4 years ago

No wonder you deleted yourself. Not 1 freaking example to support your point. Waste of flesh.

[–] elmacho (1009) 5 years ago

Somewhere in Time (album title), Quest for Fire, Murders in the Rogue Morgue, The Prisoner (TV Show), Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

I only looked up to Somewhere in Time.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 5 years ago

Nice, I didn't know about Quest for Fire, just Googled it, gonna have to watch that!

[–] elmacho (1009) 5 years ago

the song is better than the movie.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 5 years ago

I quite enjoyed the movie having recently watched it for the first time, Steve Harris must have viewed it in the 80's with a pen and notepad in hand, apart from the first line about Dinosaurs, he's basically writing about what happened.

I’ve got a new love for that song now, never cared for it much before!

[–] BuckSwope (3511) 5 years ago

The movie was pretty bad. Rae Dawn Chong gets naked. That's the only highlight. Ron Perlman plays a sexually confused Neanderthal.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 4 years ago

Those looks Ron Perlman gives are hilarious, I like him in this but I don't know if he gives lustful looks to Rae Dawn Chong or Everett McGill!

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 5 years ago

Dune was another one but Herbert refused to allow Maiden to call the song Dune, so they named it To Tame A Land.

[–] Wuchak (8837) 3 years ago

"Man on the Edge" was based on the 1993 movie "Falling Down," which of course is given away by the chorus (not sure why Steve didn't just call it "Falling Down").

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

Falling Down is the chorus and I didn’t even think of that one!

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 3 years ago

Three more from their new album!

Days Of Future Past
The Time Machine
Darkest Hour

There's still more I haven’t added, Steve Harris must have had a part time job at Blockbuster or something!