Iron Maiden - A Real Live One with Bruce Dickinson 12" Vinyl LP Album

- The stitched-together 1992 tour document that still hits harder than it should

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Red-orange sky, the IRON MAIDEN logo at the top, and Eddie crouched like a feral gremlin, ripping apart thick cables that spit lightning. White hair flying, teeth bared, sparks everywhere, and the big yellow "A REAL LIVE ONE" stamping the bottom.

Iron Maiden dropping a live album in 1993 that still mattered sounds like a contradiction, yet "A Real Live One" hit No. 3 in the UK anyway—proof the NWOBHM giants could still bite in the early-90s hangover. It isn’t one heroic night; it’s nine European rooms stitched together, and you can hear the seams in the best way: guitars rasp, the crowd heaves, and the air feels hot and metallic. “Be Quick or Be Dead” punches first, “Wasting Love” leaves a wet bruise, and “Fear of the Dark” turns into that communal howl you can’t fake. Steve Harris keeps the mix lean and impatient, while Derek Riggs gives the gatefold its proper Eddie grin. I still needle-drop it on a lazy Sunday, mostly to remind myself that “perfect” is overrated.

"Iron Maiden - A Real Live One" Album Description:

"A Real Live One" hit the racks on 22 March 1993, and it never pretended to be one perfect night captured in amber. It is a stitched-together live record: 11 tracks lifted from nine different European venues, all from the 1992 "Fear of the Dark" tour. You can feel the edit points if you listen like a picky person (guilty).

That patchwork is the point. One moment the room sounds wide and boomy, the next it tightens up like someone just shoved you closer to the PA. Crowd roar changes shape. The guitars bite a little differently. It is less “official document” and more “stack of sweaty memories”, which I will take over polished nonsense any day.

Bruce Dickinson is right there in front, pushing and teasing the lines the way he does when he knows the audience will carry him if he slips. The set leans hard into the 1986–1992 stretch ("Somewhere in Time" through "Fear of the Dark"), which means this is not your all-purpose greatest-hits live fix. If you want the earlier classics served hot, that is what "A Real Dead One" was built for.

On 12-inch vinyl (the original UK edition is a gatefold), the sleeve matters as much as the sound: big Derek Riggs artwork, the kind you actually hold for a minute instead of scrolling past. I file it mentally as an early-90s snapshot more than a “definitive” live album. Not their cleanest, not their grandest. Just loud, physical, and slightly untidy in a way that feels honest.

References

Music Genre:

New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, NWOBHM 

Packaging

 Gatefold/FOC (Fold Open Cover) Album Cover Design. This album includes the original custom inner sleeve with album details, complete lyrics of all songs by and IRON MAIDEN photos.

Album Production Information:

Produced by Steve Harris

Sound engineer Mick McKenna

Record Label & Catalognr:

EMI 0777 7 81456 1 5  

Media Format:

12" Vinyl LP  Gramophone Record
Album weight: 300 gram  

Year & Country:

1993 Made in UK  
Band Members and Musicians on: IRON MAIDEN A Real Live One
    Band-members, Musicians and Performers
  • Bruce Dickinson vocals
  • Bruce Dickinson – Singer

    Samson forged the roar; Iron Maiden turned it into a global alarm system.

    Bruce Dickinson, Bruce Dickinson is the rare frontman who can sound like a human air-raid siren and still tell a story. Before the arenas, I track him in Samson (1979–1981) , where the voice sharpened into steel. He joined Iron Maiden in 1981 and powered their classic run through 1993, then returned in 1999 and has stayed ever since. Between the big chapters he kept moving: a solo career from 1990 onward, plus the short, sharp Skunkworks detour in 1996. On stage he’s theatrical without slipping into pantomime—commanding, precise, and oddly disciplined for heavy metal. Timeline: Samson ’79–’81; Maiden ’81–’93 and ’99–now; solo from ’90; Skunkworks ’96. And yeah, never boring.

  • Dave Murray guitar
  • Dave Murray – Guitar

    Maiden’s calm killer: smooth leads, twin-guitar harmony for days, and that melodic bite that makes the “gallop” feel cinematic instead of chaotic.

    Dave Murray (born 23 December 1956, Edmonton, Middlesex, England) is one of the defining lead guitar voices of heavy metal, and in my book he’s the melodic “second spine” of Iron Maiden. His timeline with the band starts early: joining in 1976, getting briefly pushed out in 1977, then returning in 1978 and staying locked in ever since—making him one of the longest-serving members in the whole Maiden saga. During that 1977 gap he spent around six months with Urchin (Adrian Smith’s band), which is a fun little historical glitch in the matrix if you like your Maiden lore messy and human. Beyond the main band, his most notable “outside the mothership” credit is the all-star charity metal project Hear ’n Aid (1985), because apparently even guitar lifers sometimes leave the bunker to do side quests. Dave Murray Wiki

  • Janick Gers guitar
  • Janick Gers – Guitarist

    He swings that Strat like it owes him rent, and somehow every note lands.

    Janick Gers is the kind of guitarist who makes a stadium feel like a truly rowdy backroom, all elbows, grin, and ringing Stratocaster. I first clocked him in White Spirit (1975-1981), then in Ian Gillan's post-Purple outfit Gillan (1981-1982), where he learned how to punch riffs through real lungs. After a detour with the short-lived Gogmagog and a guest turn with Fish in 1990, he became Bruce Dickinson's right-hand man on "Tattooed Millionaire" (1990). Iron Maiden hired him in 1990; his first Maiden album was "No Prayer for the Dying" (1990), and when Adrian Smith returned in 1999, Janick stayed - so the band got three guitars and twice the sparks.

  • Steve Harris bass guitar
  • Steve Harris – Bass Guitar, Songwriter

    Iron Maiden’s engine room: galloping bass lines, history-nerd lyrics, and “captain of the ship” energy baked into every riff.

    Steve Harris (born 12 March 1956, Leytonstone, England) is the rare bassist who doesn’t just hold the floor—he draws the whole blueprint. In my book, he’s the founder and primary songwriter who’s kept Iron Maiden on its rails from 1975–present, with that instantly recognizable “gallop” driving huge chunks of the catalogue. The pre-Maiden grind matters too: first band days in Influence/Gypsy’s Kiss (1973–1974, including a documented gig run in 1974), then the older, blues-leaning Smiler period (1974–1975) where his more ambitious writing basically forced the next step: forming Maiden. Outside the mothership, he’s fronted his own hard-rock outlet British Lion (2012–present), a project that grew out of connections going back to the early 1990s and finally hit the world as his solo debut in 2012.

  • Nicko McBrain drums
  • Nicko McBrain – Drums Nicko McBrain, born 1952, is the powerhouse drummer who has driven Iron Maiden’s thunderous engine since joining in 1982. His playing combines brute force with swing and pinpoint timing, giving albums like The Number of the Beast and Powerslave their unstoppable momentum. Before Maiden, his work with Trust and the Pat Travers Band sharpened his style, culminating in a career that redefined metal drumming.
  • Michael Kenney - keyboard
Complete Track Listing of: IRON MAIDEN A Real Live One

The Song/tracks on "IRON MAIDEN A Real Live One " are

  • Be Quick or Be Dead (Bruce Dickinson, Janick Gers) - Recorded at Super Rock 92, Mannheim, Germany, August 15, 1992
  • From Here to Eternity - Recorded at The Valbyhallen, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 25, 1992
  • Can I Play with Madness (Dickinson, Adrian Smith, Harris) - Recorded at The Brabanthallen, Den Bosch, the Netherlands, September 2, 1992
  • Wasting Love (Dickinson, Gers) - Recorded at La Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris, France, September 5, 1992
  • Tail Gunner (Dickinson, Harris) - Recorded at La Patinoire de Malley, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 4, 1992
  • The Evil That Men Do (Dickinson, Smith, Harris) - Recorded at Forest National, Brussels, Belgium, August 17, 1992
  • Afraid to Shoot Strangers - Recorded at The Globe, Stockholm, Sweden, August 29, 1992
  • Bring Your Daughter...to the Slaughter (Dickinson) - Recorded at Helsinki Ice Hall, Helsinki, Finland, August 27, 1992
  • Heaven Can Wait - Recorded at The Monsters of Rock Festival, Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy, September 12, 1992
  • The Clairvoyant - Recorded at Helsinki Ice Hall, Helsinki, Finland, August 27, 1992
  • Fear of the Dark - Recorded at Helsinki Ice Hall, Helsinki, Finland, August 27, 1992
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