I can’t remember where I first saw Iron Maiden Behind The Iron Curtain .Was it MTV or one of the documentaries on Night Flight. I really don’t have any idea and not interested enough to try to find out.
What I do know is that I was really into Iron Maiden and Powerslave was getting them noticed. At some point in The Roach Motel Days, I was able to record both Behind The Iron Curtain and Live After Death on my old Betamax.
Behind The Iron Curtain follows Iron Maiden as they take The World Slavery Tour into Poland, Hungary, Czechoslavakia and Yugoslavia. You have to remind yourself that this was still 4 years before the wall came down and the Soviet stuff was all still in place. I would really be interested to see what these people and places are like today.
There are some interesting moments throughout the video. I find the offstage stuff to be the most interesting. To hear Dickinson talking to a guy in the club who says he likes to play heavy metal on his synthesizers to which Dickinson says “You can’t play heavy metal on synthesizers.
Fortunately for me, this documentary is included on the Live After Death DVD. Fortunatley for you, it is also on Youtube. Check it out