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Nicko McBrain

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Michael Henry "Nicko" McBrain (born 5 June 1952) is an English musician, best known as the drummer of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, which he joined in 1982. [1]

94 relations: A Matter of Life and Death (album), Adrian Smith, AllMusic, Autoweek, Barnet and Southgate College, BBC Online, Be Quick or Be Dead, Blabbermouth.net, Blues rock, Boca Raton, Florida, Brave New World (Iron Maiden album), Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Bruce Dickinson, Café (magazine), Christianity, Clive Burr, Columbia Records, Coral Springs, Florida, Costa Rica, Crucible Theatre, Dance of Death (album), Dave Brubeck, Dave Murray (musician), Dick Asher, Drum Workshop, Drum!, Eddie (mascot), EMI, Fear of the Dark (Iron Maiden album), From Fear to Eternity (album), Hard rock, Heavy metal music, Human cloning, Iron Maiden, Jaguar Cars, Jaguar XK (X150), Jesper Parnevik, Joe Morello, Kerrang!, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Latin Percussion (company), Le Journal de Québec, Live After Death, London Borough of Hackney, Ludwig Drums, Metal Hammer, MusicRadar, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, No Prayer for the Dying, Otis Redding, ..., Out of My Mind / Holy Water, Paiste, Pat Travers, Piece of Mind, Powerslave, Premier Percussion, Putting It Straight, Red Card (album), Remo, Revolver (magazine), Session musician, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Sheffield, Slagwerkkrant, Somewhere Back in Time World Tour, Somewhere in Time (Iron Maiden album), Sonor, Sooty, Steve Harris (musician), Streetwalkers, Sweep (puppet), Teddy bear, The 8G Band, The Beatles, The Book of Souls, The Daily Telegraph, The Entire Population of Hackney, The Final Frontier, The Guardian, The History of Iron Maiden – Part 1: The Early Days, The Rolling Stones, The Sooty Show, The Who, The X Factor (album), Trust (French band), Ullna GC, Vic Firth, Virtual XI, Warner Music Group, Whitfield Street, WhoCares, World Slavery Tour, World Snooker Championship, 2 Minutes to Midnight. Expand index (44 more) »

A Matter of Life and Death (album)

A Matter of Life and Death is the fourteenth studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 25 August 2006 in Italy and Finland, and 28 August worldwide, excluding the US, Canada and Japan on 5 September.

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Adrian Smith

Adrian Frederick "H" Smith (born 27 February 1957) is an English guitarist, best known as a member of Iron Maiden, for whom he writes songs and performs live backing vocals on some tracks.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Autoweek

Autoweek is a car culture publication based in Detroit, Michigan.

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Barnet and Southgate College

Barnet and Southgate College is a further education college in North London, England in the United Kingdom.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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Be Quick or Be Dead

"Be Quick or Be Dead" is a song by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released as the first single release from their ninth studio album Fear of the Dark, released in 1992.

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Blabbermouth.net

Blabbermouth.net is a website dedicated to heavy metal and hard rock news, as well as album and music DVD reviews.

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Blues rock

Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock.

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Boca Raton, Florida

Boca Raton (lit) is the southernmost city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, first incorporated on August 2, 1924 as "Bocaratone," and then incorporated as "Boca Raton" in 1925.

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Brave New World (Iron Maiden album)

Brave New World is the twelfth studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 29 May 2000.

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Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles

Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles is a Canadian heavy metal magazine.

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Bruce Dickinson

Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, airline pilot, entrepreneur, author and broadcaster.

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Café (magazine)

Café is a monthly Swedish men's magazine focused on fashion, style, and culture, including articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, travel, sports, technology, and books.

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Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

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Clive Burr

Clive Burr (8 March 1957 – 12 March 2013) was an English drummer, best known as a member of Iron Maiden from 1979 to 1982.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Coral Springs, Florida

Coral Springs, officially the City of Coral Springs, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States, approximately northwest of Fort Lauderdale.

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Costa Rica

Costa Rica ("Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (República de Costa Rica), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island.

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Crucible Theatre

The Crucible Theatre (often referred to simply as "The Crucible") is a theatre in the city centre of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England which opened in 1971, As well as theatrical performances, it hosts the most prestigious event in professional snooker, the World Championship.

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Dance of Death (album)

Dance of Death is the thirteenth studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released first in Japan on 2 September and then 8 September 2003 in the rest of the world excluding North America (where it was released a day later).

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Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.

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Dave Murray (musician)

David Michael "Dave" Murray (born 23 December 1956) is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as one of the earliest members of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden.

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Dick Asher

Martin Richard "Dick" Asher is an American lawyer and former recording company executive.

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Drum Workshop

Drum Workshop (also known as DW Drums or DW) is a an American drum kit and hardware manufacturing company based in Oxnard, California.

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Drum!

DRUM! is a North American educational drumming magazine.

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Eddie (mascot)

Eddie (also known as Eddie the Head) is the mascot for the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Fear of the Dark (Iron Maiden album)

Fear of the Dark is the ninth studio album released by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden.

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From Fear to Eternity (album)

From Fear to Eternity: The Best of 1990–2010 is a compilation album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, containing a selection of songs originally released on the eight studio albums from No Prayer for the Dying to The Final Frontier.

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Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.

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Human cloning

Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy (or clone) of a human.

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Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris.

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Jaguar Cars

Jaguar is the luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover, a British multinational car manufacturer with its headquarters in Whitley, Coventry, England and owned by the Indian company Tata Motors since 2008.

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Jaguar XK (X150)

The Jaguar XK (project code X150) is the second generation of the Jaguar XK grand tourer from Jaguar Cars.

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Jesper Parnevik

Jesper Bo Parnevik (born 7 March 1965) is a Swedish professional golfer.

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Joe Morello

Joseph Albert Morello (July 17, 1928 – March 12, 2011) was a jazz drummer best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

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Kerrang!

Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music, currently published by Wasted Talent (the same company that owns electronic music publication Mixmag).

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Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers is an American late-night talk show hosted by Seth Meyers on NBC.

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Latin Percussion (company)

Latin Percussion, also known as LP, is a brand of percussion instruments, specializing in ethnic instruments and Latin percussion engineered and manufactured to withstand the rigors of use in a drum kit, orchestral percussion section, and similar applications.

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Le Journal de Québec

Le Journal de Québec is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

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Live After Death

Live After Death is a live album and video by the 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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London Borough of Hackney

The London Borough of Hackney is a London Borough in Inner London, United Kingdom.

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Ludwig Drums

Ludwig Drums is an American manufacturer of percussion instruments.

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Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer (sometimes known as MetalHammer) is a monthly heavy metal music magazine, published in the United Kingdom by Future Plc and in several other countries by different publishers.

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MusicRadar

MusicRadar is a music website that offers information pertaining to artists and their music, with interviews, product news and reviews, and online music lessons.

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New Times Broward-Palm Beach

New Times Broward-Palm Beach is an alternative weekly newspaper; it is part of the Voice Media Group chain.

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No Prayer for the Dying

No Prayer for the Dying is the eighth studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden.

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Otis Redding

Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout.

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Out of My Mind / Holy Water

"Out of My Mind / Holy Water" is a fund-raising two-track CD single from the supergroup WhoCares, a Tony Iommi and Ian Gillan collaboration, a direct continuation of the Rock Aid Armenia project.

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Paiste

Paiste is a Swiss-based Estonian manufacturer and designer of cymbals.

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Pat Travers

Patrick Henry Travers (born April 12, 1954) is a Canadian rock guitarist, keyboardist and singer who began his recording career with Polydor Records in the mid-1970s.

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Piece of Mind

Piece of Mind is the fourth studio album by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, originally released in 1983 by EMI and then by Capitol in Canada and the US, where it was later reissued by Sanctuary/Columbia Records.

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Powerslave

Powerslave is the fifth studio album by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 3 September 1984 on EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in North America.

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Premier Percussion

Premier Music International Limited is an English manufacturer of drum kits and percussion instruments.

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Putting It Straight

Putting It Straight is a rock album by Pat Travers.

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Red Card (album)

Red Card was the third and most successful studio album by the UK rock group Streetwalkers, which made the #20 in the UK album charts.

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Remo

Remo Inc. is an American drumhead, drumset, percussion instrument and banjo head company founded by Remo Belli in 1957.

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Revolver (magazine)

Revolver is a metal music and hard-rock magazine, publishing in North America.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is the seventh studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 11 April 1988 by the EMI label in Europe, and its sister label Capitol in North America.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England.

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Slagwerkkrant

Slagwerkkrant is a Dutch bi-monthly magazine for drummers and percussionists.

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Somewhere Back in Time World Tour

Somewhere Back in Time World Tour was a concert tour by the heavy metal band Iron Maiden in 2008 and 2009, focused on the band's 1980s material, in particular songs from Powerslave, Somewhere In Time and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.

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Somewhere in Time (Iron Maiden album)

Somewhere in Time is the sixth studio album by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 29 September 1986 on EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in North America.

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Sonor

Sonor is a German drum kit and percussion manufacturer.

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Sooty

Sooty is a British glove puppet television, stage, comic book and film character, who is a small yellow male bear with black ears and nose who likes to perform magic tricks and play practical jokes.

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Steve Harris (musician)

Stephen Percy Harris (born 12 March 1956) is an English musician and songwriter, known as the bassist, occasional keyboardist, backing vocalist, primary songwriter and founder of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden.

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Streetwalkers

Streetwalkers were an English rock band formed in late 1973 by two former members of Family, vocalist Roger Chapman and guitarist John "Charlie" Whitney.

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Sweep (puppet)

Sweep is a British puppet and TV character popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and other countries.

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Teddy bear

A teddy bear is a soft toy in the form of a bear.

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The 8G Band

The 8G Band is the house band for Late Night with Seth Meyers.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Book of Souls

The Book of Souls is the sixteenth studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 4 September 2015.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Entire Population of Hackney

The Entire Population of Hackney is the name used for a project featuring members of Iron Maiden, FM and Urchin that played two concerts in 1985.

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The Final Frontier

The Final Frontier is the fifteenth studio album by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 13 August 2010 in Germany, Austria and Finland, 17 August in North America, 18 August in Japan, and 16 August worldwide.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The History of Iron Maiden – Part 1: The Early Days

The History of Iron Maiden – Part 1: The Early Days is a DVD video by Iron Maiden, released in 2004.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Sooty Show

The Sooty Show is a British children's television series that aired on BBC Television from 1955 until 1967 when the BBC eventually cancelled The Sooty Show after Paul Fox, the then-controller of BBC One at the time, cleared out some of the long running shows.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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The X Factor (album)

The X Factor is the tenth studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 2 October 1995 through EMI.

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Trust (French band)

Trust was a French heavy metal band founded in 1977 and popular in Europe in the first half of the 1980s.

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Ullna GC

Ullna Golf Club is a golf club situated on the shore of Ullna Lake in the municipality of Österåkers kommun, north of Stockholm, Sweden.

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Vic Firth

Everett Joseph "Vic" Firth (June 2, 1930 – July 26, 2015) was an American musician and the founder of Vic Firth Company (formerly Vic Firth, Inc.), a company that makes percussion sticks and mallets.

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Virtual XI

Virtual XI (pronounced: Virtual Eleven) is the eleventh studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 23 March 1998.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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Whitfield Street

Whitfield Street is a street in the London Borough of Camden that runs from Warren Street in the north to Windmill Street in the south.

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WhoCares

WhoCares was a supergroup formed by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath in 2011 with the participation of a great number of rock artists as a charity project to raise money to rebuild a music school in Gyumri, Armenia after the destruction of the city in the 1988 earthquake in Armenia.

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World Slavery Tour

The World Slavery Tour was a concert tour by the heavy metal band Iron Maiden in support of their fifth album, Powerslave, beginning in Warsaw, Poland on 9 August 1984 and ending in Irvine, California on 5 July 1985.

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World Snooker Championship

The World Snooker Championship is the leading snooker tournament both in terms of prestige and prize money.

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2 Minutes to Midnight

"2 Minutes to Midnight" is a song by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, featured on their fifth studio album, Powerslave (1984).

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