Iron Maiden: Donington Live 1992 (1993 Video) User Reviews

Fear of the Dark alive and kickin'!

[Meven_Stoffat · 10/10 · 2 November 2007]

This was a great show! Iron Maiden totally rock live, and this movie proves it. The show opens up with the ferocious "Be Quick or Be Dead", which is the moment of the show that gets your blood pumping.

This was their show at the Monsters of Rock festival, and I wish I was there. Sure their last 2 albums before this were depressing (NPFTD sucked), the songs sounded great live. Some parts you gotta love would be the B&W footage of the fans going to the show in the beginning (with even the randomly placed shot of the clown begging for change), fans going up on stage during "Heaven Can Wait", and Adrian Smith joining the band for one number.

Some of the songs they play include: Wrathchild, Iron Maiden, Running Free, Afraid to Shoot Strangers, Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter.

No this isn't available on DVD here in Canada yet, but it's worth waiting for!

Donington disaster...

[withfullforce666 · 7 January 2006]

This should, and could have been an amazing film.. instead its a 2 hour promo video. Black and white shots, slow motion, odd cuts and edits... not a pretty sight. The set is pretty damn good. Including old and new but the editing doesn't do it justice. The ferocious Be Quick Or Be Dead opens the set and you're gifted the likes of From Here To Eternity, Wasting Love and Afraid To Shoot Strangers from the new album too. Tailgunner and Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter make it from the 1990 release 'No Prayer For The Dying'. The rest of the set is a mixture from classic era.

Adrian joins them for Running Free on the encore which was nice but its nothing more than a real disappointment in general considering their '88 appearance at Donny was never released as a live film.

The trivia on IMDb is wrong. Adrian joined them for 1 song only and the crowd was nearer 50,000, not 80,000.