Their legendary status cemented by more than 2,000 shows across 64 countries in a career spanning five decades, heavy metal titans Iron Maiden are the latest musical act to appear on British stamps. The new set of stamps celebrates their show-stopping live performances whilst also featuring examples of their familiar, if slightly scary, artwork.
Iron Maiden’s story, taking them from the grot of the late 1970s toilet band circuit to private planes and megastardom, is a proper tale of rock ‘n’ roll rags to riches.
In the mid-1970s, heavy metal needed a reboot following its powerhouse beginnings in the late ‘60s and ‘70s. The hard rock genre that had blended abrasive industrial sounds with an occult Hammer Horror