Recorded dates Īccording to Harris, while the video used footage from two nights at Long Beach, the audio version is only made up of one performance, although no exact dates are specified. Time off was beneficial for the band, who desperately needed to recuperate following the World Slavery Tour's heavy schedule. For the band, the release was advantageous as it meant they could delay the recording of their next studio album, 1986's Somewhere in Time. The album has received consistent critical praise, with reviewers hailing it one of the genre's best live albums. We were very much, like, 'This has got to be totally live,' you know?" Bassist Steve Harris has stated that, even if they had had the time, they would not have added any studio overdubbing to the soundtrack: "We were really anti all that, anyway. The double LP was also recorded at Long Beach, although side four contains tracks recorded at Hammersmith Odeon, London on 8, 9, 10 and 12 October 1984. So we had great audio footage, but a lot of the concert footage was unusable." – Bruce Dickinson But the lighting engineer, Dave Lights, was at war with the video guys and consequently the whole thing was too dark. The performances there were better than the ones in Los Angeles. "The whole thing should have been from Hammersmith. įor the Live After Death video, the band hired director Jim Yukich to film two shows of their four-night run at Long Beach Arena, California from 14 to 17 March 1985. The theatricality of the stage show meant that it would become one of the band's most acclaimed tours, making it the perfect backdrop to their first live double album and concert video. Iron Maiden's World Slavery Tour began in Warsaw, Poland on 9 August 1984 and lasted 331 days, during which 187 concerts were performed To tie in with their 1984 album, Powerslave, the tour's stage show adhered to an ancient Egyptian theme, which was decorated with sarcophagi and Egyptian hieroglyphs, and mummified representations of the band's mascot, Eddie, in addition to numerous pyrotechnic effects. In addition to the complete concert, the DVD features Part 2 of The History of Iron Maiden documentary series, which began with 2004's The Early Days and continued with 2013's Maiden England '88, documenting the recording of the Powerslave album and the following World Slavery Tour. It was initially released though Sony as a "Video LP" on VHS hi-fi stereo and Beta hi-fi stereo with 14 songs and no special features and was reissued on DVD on 4 February 2008, which coincided with the start of the band's Somewhere Back in Time World Tour. The video version of the concert only contains footage from the Long Beach shows. It was recorded at Long Beach Arena, California and Hammersmith Odeon, London during the band's World Slavery Tour. Live After Death is a live album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, originally released in October 1985 on EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in the US (it was re-released by Sanctuary/ Columbia Records in the US in 2002 on CD and by Universal Music Group/ Sony BMG Music Entertainment on DVD).
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