{"id":1322,"date":"2024-10-17T11:41:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T11:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2024-10-17T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T11:42:31","slug":"1322-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Iron Maiden Celebrates 50th Anniversary in Grand Stlye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static.soapcentral.com\/editor\/2024\/09\/a89f1-17268215019191.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Iron Maiden 50th Anniversary World Tour 2025-26: Presale, dates, venues, &amp; all you need to know\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Iron Maiden\u00a0announced the first dates of their 50th anniversary world tour, which will\u00a0start in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Marking five decades since bassist\u00a0Steve Harris\u00a0formed the band, the Run for Your Lives shows will focus on their first nine albums, from 1980\u2019s\u00a0self-titled debut\u00a0to 1992\u2019s\u00a0<em>Fear of the Dark<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Initial dates across the U.K., Ireland and Europe can be seen below, with more to follow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"in-article-oop-container\">\n<div class=\"tsm-ad tsm-ad-oop\" aria-label=\"advertisement\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tsm-ad tsm-ad-1x1 tsm-ad-oop\" aria-label=\"advertisement\">\n<div id=\"tsm-ad-in-article-pixel-1\" data-google-query-id=\"COCd4fiolYkDFe1UpAQdohAMug\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/8328825\/national\/UltimateClassicRock\/sharethrough_1__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/8328825\/national\/UltimateClassicRock\/sharethrough_1\" tabindex=\"0\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/8328825\/national\/UltimateClassicRock\/sharethrough_1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-presentation\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-google-container-id=\"3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext year is a very special one for Iron Maiden and we\u2019re going to be giving our fans a once-in-a-lifetime live experience,\u201d singer\u00a0Bruce Dickinson\u00a0said in a statement. \u201cThis is a tour that\u2019s gonna put a smile on your face and a cheer in your throat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019ve seen us before, then get ready to take that experience to a whole new level. If you&#8217;ve never seen us before, then what the hell have you been waiting for? Now\u2019s your chance to find out what you\u2019ve been missing! Iron Maiden\u2019s definitely gonna get ya!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Band manager Rod Smallwood outlined their achievements over the past five decades, saying, \u201cWith well over 100 million albums sold and almost 2,500 shows in 64 countries and counting, to countless millions of fans, we are all still loving every second.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"single-post-oembed-youtube-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"async-component loading\">\n<div id=\"0\" class=\"loadinganim showbox\">\n<div class=\"loader\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He promised the group was planning on \u201cpulling out all the stops\u201d for the shows. \u201cWe will cover classics and fan favorites from the first nine albums \u2026 many of which we haven\u2019t played in years and many we will likely never play again in the future,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already been hard at work for months putting together an even more spectacular and elaborate new show, which will bring the songs to life more than we have ever been able to do before. This is going to be a huge couple of years \u2026 and we are very excited about what we have up our sleeves for you fans throughout the whole of our 50th year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tour includes an appearance at London Stadium, the home of Harris\u2019 favorite soccer team, West Ham United; he, guitarists Dave Murray and Adrian Smith,\u00a0and\u00a0drummer Nicko McBrain, grew up in the surrounding area. With a capacity of 60,000,\u00a0it will be the biggest non-festival show Iron Maiden has ever performed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iron Maiden, Run for Your Lives World Tour<\/strong><br \/>\n5\/27 \u2013 Budapest Ar\u00e9na, Budapest, Hungary<br \/>\n5\/31 \u2013 Letnany Airport, Prague, Czech Republic<br \/>\n6\/01 \u2013 TIPOS Arena, Bratislava, Slovakia<br \/>\n6\/05 \u2013 Trondheim Rocks, Trondheim, Norway (Festival)<br \/>\n6\/07 \u2013 SR\u2013Bank Arena, Stavanger, Norway<br \/>\n6\/09 \u2013 Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark<br \/>\n6\/12 \u2013 3Arena, Stockholm, Sweden<br \/>\n6\/13 \u2013 3Arena, Stockholm, Sweden<br \/>\n6\/16 \u2013 Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland<br \/>\n6\/21 \u2013 Utilita Arena, Birmingham, England<br \/>\n6\/22 \u2013 Co\u2013Op Live, Manchester, England<br \/>\n6\/25 \u2013 Malahide Castle, Dublin, Ireland<br \/>\n6\/28 \u2013 London Stadium, London, England<br \/>\n6\/30 \u2013 OVO Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland<br \/>\n6\/03 \u2013 Eurock\u00e9ennes Festival, Belfort, France (Festival)<br \/>\n6\/05 \u2013 Estadio C\u00edvitas Metropolitano, Madrid, Spain<br \/>\n6\/06 \u2013 MEO Arena, Lisbon, Portugal<br \/>\n6\/09 \u2013 Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland<br \/>\n6\/11 \u2013 Veltins\u2013Arena, Gelsenkirchen, Germany<br \/>\n6\/13 \u2013 Stadio Euganeo, Padova, Italy<br \/>\n6\/15 \u2013 B\u00fcrgerweide, Bremen, Germany<br \/>\n6\/17 \u2013 Ernst Happel Stadium, Vienna, Austria<br \/>\n6\/19 \u2013 Paris La D\u00e9fense Arena, Paris, France<br \/>\n6\/23 \u2013 GelreDome, Arnhem, Netherlands<br \/>\n6\/25 \u2013 Deutsche Bank Park, Frankfurt, Germany<br \/>\n6\/26 \u2013 Cannstatter Wasen, Stuttgart, Germany<br \/>\n6\/29 \u2013 Waldb\u00fchne, Berlin, Germany<br \/>\nAug. 02 \u2013 PGE Narodowy, Warsaw, Poland<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Maiden\u00a0announced the first dates of their 50th anniversary world tour, which will\u00a0start in May 2025. Marking five decades since bassist\u00a0Steve Harris\u00a0formed the band, the Run for Your Lives shows will focus on their first nine albums, from 1980\u2019s\u00a0self-titled debut\u00a0to 1992\u2019s\u00a0Fear of the Dark. Initial dates across the U.K., Ireland and Europe can be seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191.webp",640,412,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191-300x193.webp",300,193,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191.webp",640,412,false],"large":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191.webp",640,412,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191.webp",640,412,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191.webp",640,412,false],"jnews-360x180":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191-360x180.webp",360,180,true],"jnews-750x375":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191-640x375.webp",640,375,true],"jnews-1140x570":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191.webp",640,412,false],"jnews-120x86":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191-120x86.webp",120,86,true],"jnews-350x250":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191-350x250.webp",350,250,true],"jnews-750x536":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191.webp",640,412,false],"jnews-1140x815":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191.webp",640,412,false],"jnews-360x504":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191-360x412.webp",360,412,true],"jnews-75x75":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191-75x75.webp",75,75,true],"jnews-350x350":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191-350x350.webp",350,350,true],"jnews-featured-750":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191.webp",640,412,false],"jnews-featured-1140":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191.webp",640,412,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Newssoccer","author_link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Blog<\/a>","tag_info":"Blog","comment_count":"0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/a89f1-17268215019191.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}