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IRON MAIDEN: 'EDDIE' AND THE AUSSIES
05/17/2008
When Iron Maiden played Australia on its 2008 Somewhere Back in Time world tour for a half-dozen shows between Feb. 4 and Feb. 10, it marked the band's first shows Down Under in 15 years.
Promoter Paul Dainty, chairman of Melbourne-based Dainty Consolidated Entertainment, saw no risk in presenting the band after such a lengthy absence.
Maiden toured Australia in 1982 with "The Number of the Beast" at No. 1 on the Australian Recording Industry Assn. chart, in 1985 with the "Powerslave" tour and in 1992 with "Fear of the Dark."
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