4 CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED
WORLD DOMINATION, 1983–1985

“See, press and people like that in general misunderstood the whole thing that is heavy rock. They don’t comprehend the extent of the dedication of not only the band themselves, but usually the fans that go with the band. To them, pop music means disposable music which sells disposable articles…. As far as we’re concerned, our music isn’t disposable, it isn’t designed to sell anything, and all we ask is that people listen to it and enjoy it.”

—Bruce Dickinson, quoted by Sylvie Simmons,
CREEM, October 1983

Iron Maiden’s legendary fourth album, Piece of Mind, was recorded at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas in January 1983. The band finished the nine-track album in March as their relationship with Martin Birch continued to prosper.

Steve Harris explained in 1983: “The reason we use Martin is that he puts down the sound that we want, the way we like it. And we think the first three albums were really leading up to this one in terms of quality. In general, bands are being given producers that make the music for them and, in some cases, even co-write it. With Martin, that’s not the case at all and never has been. What Martin has always added with us is his expertise in the studio and his great ability at recording our sounds. We’ve only just come to this point in our drum and guitar sounds, which are exceptional now; it’s just a team growing up together. Martin’s also become aware, obviously, with the experience of working with us, of the way we want to proceed. The suggestions going both ways are very fluid, so Martin’s very much a part of the band in the studio.”

The World Slavery tour stops in Detroit, January 1985. © Robert Alford

On the road for the World Piece tour, 1983. Chris Walter/WireImage/Getty Images

Bruce Dickinson and Dave Murray, Capitol Records building, Hollywood, July 1983. Richard E. Aaron/Redferns/Getty Images

“The Trooper” (June 1983).

Piece of Mind has a lot of literary references, including Frank Herbert’s Dune saga and G. K. Chesterton. Band members were especially keen on science fiction and fantasy, which continue to be major themes in their work. Books and films filled up a lot of time for the band during those long tours. Dickinson was especially well read and harbored some thoughts of becoming an author himself, which became a reality with 1990’s The Adventures of Lord Iffy’s Boatrace. The second track on Piece, Dickinson’s “Revelations,” was inspired by the singer’s fascination with the deceased English occultist Aleister Crowley, who was also a source of fascination for musicians including the Beatles, the Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Ozzy Osbourne. In 2009, Dickinson would further his publishing career by cowriting an eponymous book treatment about Crowley.

Released in May, Piece of Mind has since become one of the most acclaimed heavy metal albums in history, with rollicking tracks like “The Trooper” and “Flight of Icarus” on offer. Kerrang!, the British heavy metal bible of the ’80s, with whom Iron Maiden had a close relationship, rated Piece of Mind at No. 1 in a 1983 poll of the best heavy metal albums in history (The Number of the Beast came in at No. 2). Such was the popularity of Piece of Mind that it appeared in Kerrang! reader’s polls throughout the decade. Additionally, Piece of Mind was the band’s first Top 20 album in the United States, and sales have since reached more than 13 million worldwide.

Adrian Smith said in 2000, “It’s great to be praised by the critics…. It’s kind of amazing, really, to think that they hold [Piece of Mind] in such high regard. What we were doing is just going in and trying to make good music. I think it’s just part of the legend of Iron Maiden—a phenomenon. But it’s great. It’s great that people feel that way.”

The band hit the road for the relatively short (by Maiden standards) World Piece tour in April and wound up in December; the tour included a fairly extensive jaunt around North America.

“Flight of Icarus” (April 1983).

Maiden’s former lighting engineer Dave “Lights” Beazley recalled the band’s famed set design. “By the time Iron Maiden were promoting the Piece of Mind album,” he said, “the tours were running into months rather than weeks. We’d previously hired all the lighting equipment, but with a 10- to 12-month tour coming up it was obvious that it would be easier to design and build a set that we could take with us on the road. Not only would this be cheaper in the long run than hiring, but it also meant that everywhere we went, the fans could see the same show.”

The tour, however, was not without controversy. On August 7, a model who had recently won a radio competition was invited onstage at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis during “22 Acacia Avenue.” The scantily clad contest winner, appropriately known as “Miss Model,” danced around Bruce Dickinson during the song, but the frontman ripped off her top, leaving her topless in front of the thousands in attendance. Dickinson was arrested and reportedly sued by the woman, though the case was settled out of court.

Courtesy Wyco Vintage/wycovintage.com

SETLIST SELECTIONS

PIECE OF MIND TOUR

WHERE EAGLES DARE MOVIE THEME
(ENTRANCE)
WHERE EAGLES DARE
WRATHCHILD
THE TROOPER
REVELATIONS
FLIGHT OF ICARUS
DIE WITH YOUR BOOTS ON
22 ACACIA AVENUE
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
STILL LIFE
TO TAME A LAND
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
HALLOWED BE THY NAME
IRON MAIDEN
RUN TO THE HILLS
SANCTUARY
DRIFTER
PROWLER

World Piece tour, 1983. John T. Comerford III collection/Frank White Photo Agency

THE ALBUMS
PIECE OF MIND

BY MICK WALL

OF ALL THE BIG CORNERSTONE Iron Maiden albums—the eponymous debut, The Number of the Beast, Seventh Son…, etc.—the one that gets the least mentions yet remains one of Steve Harris’ all-time personal favorites is Piece of Mind.

Released in 1983, Piece was also the first Maiden album to feature the classic ’80s line-up of Harris, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Bruce Dickinson, and—making his recorded debut with the band—Nicko McBrain. As if to announce this fact, track one, “Where Eagles Dare,” explodes into life with big percussive flourish. Where McBrain’s predecessor, Clive Burr, had been a consummate “feel” player, Nicko brought a greater technical finesse that allowed Maiden a much greater capacity to finesse their full-metal-racket sound. As Harris would later say, “It felt like we were on a high and you can hear that mood on the album. I thought we’d really come up with the goods this time.”

As always, it was Harris who led the way with “Where Eagles Dare,” a typically fist-shaking anthem to the inner-strength it takes to become a leader; “The Trooper,” a battle-hymn set in the Crimean War and featuring strafing guitars and galloping bass and drums; “Quest for Fire,” inspired by the 1981 movie of the same name in which a caveman’s search for fire becomes symbolic of man’s quest for knowledge; and closing track “To Tame a Land,” its lyrics based on Frank Herbert’s labyrinthine sci-fi novel Dune. (Originally the track had been called simply “Dune,” but when plans to include a spoken-word passage from the book were rejected by the author, a last-minute rethink was needed.)

Of the album’s other five tracks, easily the best are “Flight of Icarus,” by Dickinson and Smith, and “Revelations,” written by Dickinson alone. The former became the band’s first U.S. single, its rock-steady beat and Dio-esque vocals gaining them more radio airtime than any other previous Maiden track. The latter, simply one of their best tracks since Dickinson had joined two years before, became one of the big call-and-response highlights of the Maiden live show for years to come.

Almost inevitably, certain Christian fundamentalist groups in America took offense at the use on the sleeve of a quote from the Bible’s Book of Revelation, chapter 21, verse 4: And God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more Death. Neither sorrow, nor crying. Neither shall there be any more Brain; for the former things are passed away (except for the word “pain,” which was replaced by “‘Brain,” a pun on the album title).

Already branded in some quarters as satanists after Number of the Beast, some in the American South urged the burning of Maiden records. The band couldn’t resist making fun, though. Anticipating the response they jokingly included a backward-masked message between “The Trooper” and “Still Life”—a drunken McBrain doing an impression of infamous African dictator Idi Amin: “Don’t meddle wi’d t’ings yo don’t understand.”

The rest of the album was fairly standard Maiden fare: Dickinson’s and Smith’s “Sun and Steel” is a romping musketeer tale with suitably duelling guitars. “Still Life” is the by now obligatory Harris and Murray number, moody but lacking in true magnificence. And “Die with Your Boots On” is a Dickinson/Smith idea augmented by Harris that would sound grand live but didn’t need more than one listen on vinyl.

Another sizeable hit in the U.K. despite lukewarm critical response, Piece of Mind became the first Maiden album to penetrate the U.S. Top 20, reaching No. 14 and selling more than a million copies and earning Maiden their first platinum record.

World Piece tour, Uniondale, New York, August 25, 1983. All © Bob Leafe

The relatively short (by Maiden standards) World Piece tour began in April 1983 and wound up in December. This Dusseldorf show was rescheduled from November 19.

World Piece tour, November 1983.

World Piece tour, somewhere in the United States or Canada, September 1983. Both Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

Dave Murray keeps one eye over his shoulder on the World Piece tour, somewhere on the U.S. East Coast, 1983. Ebet Roberts/Redferns/Getty Images

World Piece tour, Madison Square Garden, New York City, October 8, 1983. © Frank White

In early 1984, the band returned to Compass Point with Martin Birch to record their new album, Powerslave. Despite a strong work ethic, the band knew how to have fun and party, and indeed, by most accounts, that’s what they did during the recording of the album, enjoying tropical island offerings such as banana daiquiris.

Powerslave includes the band’s longest song to date, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” a retelling of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem that clocks in at almost fourteen minutes. The eight-track album also includes bonafide metal classics “Aces High” and “2 Minutes to Midnight.”

Powerslave includes the bonafide metal classic “Aces High.” Courtesy Wyco Vintage/wycovintage.com

“Aces High” (October 1984), France.

“2 Minutes to Midnight” (August 1984), France.

Powerslave includes the band’s longest song to date, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” a retelling of the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem that clocks in at almost fourteen minutes.

Released in September 1984, Powerslave was a huge hit for the band, eventually reaching platinum status in the United States and Canada and being certified gold in the United Kingdom and Germany. To promote its release, the band committed to an eleven-month tour. By now, Maiden was a force to be reckoned with on the live scene, and the World Slavery tour was even more extensive than the Beast on the Road tour, logging 190 dates in 24 countries. Support acts included Accept, Waysted, Mötley Crüe, and Twisted Sister. In fact, the tour went into the annals of rock history as one of the longest of all time and one of the most iconic, too, thanks to a large Egyptian-themed stage set. Beginning in Poland in August 1984 and winding up in California in July 1985, the tour included such highlights as a slot at the famous Rock in Rio Festival that was headlined by Queen and a five-night residency at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. Some South African dates, however, were cancelled when objections arose to the use of the word slavery.

The 1984–1985 World Slavery tour went into the annals of rock history as one of the longest of all time and one of the most iconic, too. Courtesy Wyco Vintage/wycovintage.com

The World Slavery tour spawned the band’s first live album Live After Death, released in October 1985. Recorded during a run of dates at London’s Hammersmith Odeon in October 1984 and at four shows at California’s Long Beach Arena in March 1985, it is one of the most acclaimed heavy metal live albums of all time. In October 1985, Kerrang! awarded Live After Death five Ks (their equivalent of five stars). It was also one of their Albums of the Year in 1985; in the naughties, Kerrang! named it one of their 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time. Music writer Greg Prato wrote in his review for AllMusic, “Live After Death is easily one of heavy metal’s best live albums.”

Since the Metal for Muthas tour in February 1980, Iron Maiden had played more than seven hundred live shows. Plans for a tour to promote Live After Death were scrapped, and for the first time in their history, the band took a six-month break. Boy, did they need it.

SETLIST SELECTIONS

POWERSLAVE TOUR

CHURCHILL’S “WE SHALL FIGHT…”
SPEECH (ENTRANCE)
ACES HIGH
2 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
THE TROOPER
REVELATIONS
FLIGHT OF ICARUS
RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
POWERSLAVE
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
HALLOWED BE THY NAME
IRON MAIDEN
RUN TO THE HILLS
RUNNING FREE
SANCTUARY

Rock in Rio, January 11, 1985. Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

World Slavery tour, New York City.

THE ALBUMS
POWERSLAVE

BY DANIEL BUKSZPAN

I’LL JUST COME RIGHT OUT AND SAY IT: 1984’s Powerslave is Iron Maiden’s best album. The first two (self-titled and Killers) are classic slabs of NWOBHM. The Number of the Beast is a cornerstone of heavy metal, and Piece of Mind has “The Trooper,” which is worth the price of the album all by itself. But Powerslave is where it all comes together. It was their first album to use the same line-up that played on the last one, giving the band a chance to develop cohesion and perfect their sound. As a result, all of the band’s signature elements solidify here, from galloping rhythms to harmonized guitars to soaring vocal melodies and then some. It also expanded their popularity outside of the Unites States and the United Kingdom—the accompanying tour saw them play South America and also Poland, marking the first time a western heavy metal band had ever officially performed behind the Iron Curtain. If any album deserves to have its lyrics shouted off-mic by Steve Harris while he plays bass with his foot firmly mounted atop a monitor, this is it.

Powerslave opens with “Aces High,” the strongest track on the album and an impossible one about which to feign indifference (at least for this writer). The song either confirms your conviction as an Iron Maiden lifer or it forever makes you claim that they sucked after Paul Di’Anno left. Regardless, it’s followed by “2 Minutes to Midnight,” still a fixture in the band’s live sets today and a song with zero fat despite its six-minute length. After the instrumental “Losfer Words (Big ’Orra)” comes “Flash of the Blade.” One of the band’s most underrated songs, it opens on a highly original note with guitar hammer-ons and sustained bass chords before launching into full chug. Its highlight is the breakdown after the guitar solo, which sounds like ten Brian Mays playing over screeching guitar string harmonics, a detail that is always wonderful to geek out over.

“The Duellists,” which ends side one, and “Back in the Village,” the side-two opener, are the only questionable moves on the album. The former seems a little long and the latter sounds a bit fussy, but they’re not egregious and they don’t take you out of the album. “Back in the Village” is also amusing for its ending, which features Dickinson singing so fast that you can almost imagine Tom Araya calling up Jeff Hanneman and saying, “Hey, let’s have a whole career based on this.” The title track is next, a travelogue down the banks of the Nile and the Euphrates. The album could have effectively ended on this exotic note. Instead it goes into extra innings with “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” a thirteen-odd-minute retelling of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic poem of albatross revenge. It can be debated whether it really needed to be extended to infomercial length, or if it really needed to have a narration, bass, and volume pedal jam in the breakdown section. However, the excesses suggest a band that wanted to push things, and somehow, despite its length, the song never bores.

Twenty-five years after Powerslave, Iron Maiden remains relevant and still comes up with good albums. However, this is the kind of album that a band can only produce once in their career, and then only if they’re lucky. It was their most melodic and accessible album to still showcase the aggression of their early days, and it did so for the very last time. It also featured a band that took risks with no fear of losing either their audience or their record label. Anyone who wants to know what this band was capable of at its creative pinnacle needs to look no further than this.

Live After Death counter display, October 1985.

“Run to the Hills” (live) (December 1985).

The World Slavery tour was even more extensive than the Beast on the Road tour, logging 190 dates in 24 countries, including this show in Peoria, Illinois.

“Running Free” (live) (September 1985).

1983 By Ryan LaMar

04.28	Stuttgart, GER
05.02	Hull, GBR
05.03	Preston, GBR
05.05	Oxford, GBR
05.06	Leicester, GBR
05.07	Southampton, GBR
05.08	Ipswich, GBR
05.10	Nottingham, GBR
05.11	Bradford, GBR
05.12	Glasgow, GBR
05.13	Edinburgh, GBR
05.15	Cardiff, GBR
05.16	Sheffield, GBR
05.17	Newcastle, GBR
05.18	Hanely, GBR
05.20	Bristol, GBR
05.21–22	Birmingham, GBR
05.23	Manchester, GBR
05.25–28	London, GBR
06.01	Helsinki, FIN
06.03	Gothenburg, SWE
06.04	Drammen, NOR
06.05	Stockholm, SWE
06.07	Copenhagen, DEN
06.12	Amsterdam, NED
06.21	Casper, USA
06.22	Salt Lake City, USA
06.23	Boise, USA
06.24	Spokane, USA
06.27	Portland, USA
06.28	Seattle, USA
06.29	Vancouver, CAN
07.02	San Francisco, USA
07.03	Sacramento, USA
07.05	Fresno, USA
07.07	San Bernardino, USA
07.08	San Diego, USA
07.09	Long Beach, USA
07.11	Tucson, USA
07.12	Phoenix, USA

07.13	Albuquerque, USA
07.14	Denver, USA
07.16	Lubbock, USA
07.17	Amarillo, USA
07.20	El Paso, USA
07.22	Norman, USA
07.23	Dallas, USA
07.24	Houston, USA
07.26	Corpus Christi, USA
07.27	San Antonio, USA
07.29	Shreveport, USA
07.30	Memphis, USA
07.31	Little Rock, USA
08.01	Nashville, USA
08.02	Louisville, USA
08.06	East Troy, USA
08.07	Indianapolis, USA
08.09	Ft. Wayne, USA
08.10	Kalamazoo, USA
08.11	Detroit, USA
08.13	Erie, USA
08.14	Cleveland, USA
08.15	Buffalo, USA
08.16	Pittsburgh, USA
08.18	Allentown, USA
08.19	Philadelphia, USA
08.20	Largo, USA
08.23	Glen Falls, USA
08.24	Syracuse, USA
08.25	Uniondale, USA
08.26	New Haven, USA
08.27	South Yarmouth, USA
08.29	Portland, USA
08.30	Providence, USA
08.31	Poughkeepsie, USA
09.01	Rochester, USA
09.05	Toronto, CAN
09.06	Montreal, CAN
09.07	Chicoutimi, CAN
09.08	Quebec City, CAN
09.10	Toledo, USA
09.11	Lansing, USA
09.13	Madison, USA
09.14	Minneapolis, USA
09.15	Fargo, USA
09.17	Winnipeg, CAN
09.19	Calgary, CAN
09.20	Edmonton, CAN
09.29	Peoria, USA
09.30	Chicago, USA
10.02	Columbus, USA
10.04	Baltimore, USA
10.08	New York City, USA
10.09	Norfolk, USA
10.10	Charleston, USA
10.12	Columbia, USA
10.14	Miami, USA
10.15	Jacksonville, USA
10.16	Lakeland, USA
10.19	Knoxville, USA
10.20	Charlotte, USA
10.21	Atlanta, USA
10.23	Lincoln, USA (rescheduled from 09.25)
10.24	Kansas City, USA (rescheduled from 09.26)
10.25	St. Louis, USA (rescheduled from 09.27)
11.05	Kerkrade, NED (rescheduled from 06.09 and 11.11)
11.07	Hannover, GER
11.08	Hamburg, GER
11.09	Kiel, GER
11.10	Bremen, GER
11.14	Brussels, BEL (rescheduled from 06.11)
11.15	Rouen, FRA
11.17	Paris, FRA
11.18	Besancon, FRA
11.19	Clermont-Ferrand, FRA
11.20	Lyon, FRA
11.22	Barcelona, ESP
11.24–25	Madrid, ESP
11.27	San Sebastian, ESP
11.30	Munich, GER
12.01	Nuremberg, GER (rescheduled from 11.10)
12.03	Wurzburg, GER
12.04	Dusseldorf, GER (rescheduled from 11.19)
12.06	Ulm, GER
12.07	Ludwigshafen, GER
12.08	Stuttgart, GER
12.09	Dortmund, GER
12.10	Russelheim, GER
12.11	Lausanne, SUI
12.13	Vienna, AUT
12.14	Linz, AUT
12.17–18	Dortmund, GER

The following dates were listed in fan club magazine No. 6, but do not appear in subsequent tour programs:

07.18	Odessa, USA
08.21	Binghamton, USA
09.22	Saskatoon, CAN
09.24	Sioux City, USA
10.01	Cincinnati, USA
10.04	Knoxville, USA
10.05	Greensboro, USA
10.19	Johnson City, USA

The following dates were listed in fan club magazine No. 7, but do not appear on the subsequent tour shirt:

11.15	Nancy, FRA
11.16	Paris, FRA
12.02	Nuremberg, GER

1984

08.09	Warsaw, POL
08.10	Lodz, POL
08.11	Poznan, POL
08.12	Wroclaw, POL
08.14	Katowice, POL
08.16	Zeltweg, AUT
08.17	Budapest, HUN
08.18	Belgrade, YUG
08.19	Ljublijana, YUG
08.22	Arma di Taggia, ITA
08.25	Annecy, FRA
08.26	Palavas, FRA
08.29	San Sebastian, ESP
08.31	Oporto, POR
09.01	Cascais, POR
09.03	Madrid, ESP
09.05	Barcelona, ESP
09.07	Toulouse, FRA
09.08	Bordeaux, FRA
09.11	Glasgow, GBR
09.12	Aberdeen, GBR
09.13	Edinburgh, GBR
09.15–16	Newcastle, GBR
09.17	Sheffield, GBR
09.18	Ipswich, GBR
09.20	Leicester, GBR
09.21	Oxford, GBR
09.22	St. Austell, GBR
09.23	Bristol, GBR
09.25–26	Manchester, GBR
09.27	Hanley, GBR
09.29	Nottingham, GBR
09.30	Cardiff, GBR
10.02–03	Birmingham, GBR
10.05	Southampton, GBR
10.07	Cardiff, GBR
10.08–10, 12	Hammersmith, GBR
10.15	Cologne, GER
10.16	Stuttgart, GER
10.17	Heidelberg, GER
10.19	Wurzburg, GER
10.20	Brussels, BEL
10.21	Nancy, FRA
10.23	Freiberg, GER
10.24	Munich, GER
10.26	Essen, GER
10.27	Bremen, GER
10.28	Zwolle, NED
10.29	Paris, FRA
11.01	Copenhagen, DEN
11.02	Stockholm, SWE
11.03	Gothenburg, SWE
11.05	Helsinki, FIN
11.08	Russelsheim, GER
11.09	Nuremberg, GER
11.11	Bologna, ITA
11.12	Milan, ITA
11.13	Lyon, FRA
11.14	Basel, SUI
11.24	Halifax, CAN
11.26	Quebec City, CAN
11.27	Montreal, CAN
11.28	Ottawa, CAN
11.30	Toronto, CAN
12.01	Sudbury, CAN
12.03	Winnipeg, CAN
12.04	Regina, CAN
12.06	Edmonton, CAN
12.07	Calgary, CAN
12.09	Vancouver, CAN
12.10	Seattle, USA
12.11	Portland, USA
12.13	Salt Lake City, USA
12.15	Denver, USA
12.17	Kansas City, USA
12.18	St. Louis, USA
12.19	Milwaukee, USA
12.20	Minneapolis, USA
12.21	Chicago, USA

1985

01.03	Cincinnati, USA
01.04	Detroit, USA
01.05	Columbus, USA
01.06	Cleveland, USA
01.07	Buffalo, USA
01.11	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
01.14	Hartford, USA
01.15	Worcester, USA
01.17–21	New York City, USA
01.28	Landover, USA
01.29	Philadelphia, USA
01.31	Columbia, USA
02.01	Johnson City, USA
02.02	Atlanta, USA
02.03	Memphis, USA
02.05	Nashville, USA
02.08	Charlotte, USA
02.09	Greensboro, USA
02.10	Greenville, USA
02.12	Jacksonville, USA
02.14	Ft. Myers, USA
02.15	Miami, USA
02.16	Lakeland, USA
02.17	St. Petersburg, USA
02.19	Chattanooga, USA
02.20	Birmingham, USA
02.21	Huntsville, USA
02.23	Beaumont, USA
02.24	Biloxi, USA
02.27	New Orleans, USA
02.28	Houston, USA
03.01	Waco, USA
03.02	Oklahoma City, USA
03.04	Dallas, USA
03.05	San Antonio, USA
03.07	Lubbock, USA
03.08	El Paso, USA
03.09	Albuquerque, USA
03.10	Tucson, USA
03.14–17	Long Beach, USA
03.19	Reno, USA
03.20	Fresno, USA
03.21	San Francisco, USA
03.23	San Diego, USA
03.24	Tempe, USA
03.25	Las Vegas, USA
03.26	San Bernardino, USA
03.31	Honolulu, USA
04.14–15,
17, 19	Tokyo, JPN
04.20	Nagoya, JPN
04.22	Fukuoka, JPN
04.24	Osaka, JPN
04.25	Tokyo, JPN
05.02	Canberra, AUS
05.03	Melbourne, AUS
05.04	Adelaide, AUS
05.06	Woollongong, AUS
05.07	Sydney, AUS
05.08	Newcastle, AUS
05.10	Brisbane, AUS
05.23	Portland, USA
05.24	Uniondale, USA
05.25	Binghamton, USA
05.27	Rochester, USA
05.28	Glen Falls, USA
05.29	Springfield, USA
05.31	New Haven, USA
06.01	Allentown, USA
06.02	Providence, USA
06.04	Columbia, USA
06.05	Pittsburgh, USA
06.07	Dayton, USA
06.08	Evansville, USA
06.09	East Troy, USA
06.11	Toledo, USA
06.12	Detroit, USA
06.14	Saginaw, USA
06.15	Charlevoix, USA
06.16	Hoffman Estates, USA
06.18	Peoria, USA
06.19	Cedar Rapids, USA
06.21	Madison, USA
06.22	Green Bay, USA
06.23	Minneapolis, USA
06.24	Fargo, USA
06.26	Des Moines, USA
06.27	Omaha, USA
06.29	Denver, USA
07.03	San Jose, USA
07.04	Sacramento, USA
07.05	Irvine, USA
12.15–16??,	GBR (special shows with Adrian and Nicko with encores by the whole band)
12.18–19	London, GBR (special shows with Adrian and Nicko with encores by the whole band)

Notes: The April 1983 Stuttgart show is often incorrectly cited as Stoccarda, Italy. Unreliable sources have listed the following 1983 shows: June 10 at Shifflange, Luxembourg, and December 12 and 13 at Padova and Milan, Italy, respectively.

An August 21, 1984, show in Pordenone, Italy, is listed in the Japanese tour program, but no other evidence of it has turned up. An October 13, 1984, Hammersmith show was noted in a publication that stated five shows were planned. However, since the date is not in the Japanese tour program, it likely did not occur.

A ticket reading October 24, 1983, for Essen, Germany, is known to exist. Interestingly, several of the 1984 German shows have the incorrect year listed.

Two New York City shows (January 23 and 24, 1985), an Allentown, Pennsylvania, show (January 26, 1985), and likely a show in Glen Falls, New York (January 25, 1985), were cancelled due to Bruce being ill. In addition, a February 6, 1985, date in Knoxville, Tennessee, was cancelled by the promoter, and three May 1985 dates in New Zealand were jettisoned due to a dispute with the airline.

Bushell lists the Adelaide date as May 4, 1985. Skoog claims the date is May 5 because of an account from an Australian fan and the fact that Adelaide is quite a distance from Melbourne. The difference between the two dates may be attributable to the International Date Line, i.e., some North American and/or European media outlets or fans may have reported and perpetuated the date the concert occurred on their side of the line.

John Miles claims the band did only two secret gigs in December 1985: on the 18th under the moniker The Sherman Tankers, and on the 19th under the moniker The Entire Population of Hackney. He also says that the entire band came for encores only on the second night. Skoog, however, maintains that there were four secret gigs. Neither can prove their claim, although Skoog says that he got his information from an interview with Adrian Smith.