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Who really won that war anyway lol….?? By the looks of Western society today I seriously doubt the West won sadly….

That's the anime that inspired Araki to make Jojo which is why the lost movie looks like it. I don't believe that this video clip does tho.

The same font has been used before; one of Nicko McBrain's first gigs Gordon Giltrap used the font back in 1976 on albums like Visionary and Fear Of The Dark. David Bowie also used this font on The Man Who Fell to Earth back in 1976. I'm really interested in learning more about the logo. Did you also do the artwork for the mouth that looks like the rolling stones logo?

We were speaking about 'The Mouth' last week. The artwork was also produced at Crowe's Studio, 15 Rathbone Place, London W1. The illustration was drawn by an artist there called Reg Suffolk, Dennis was the designer of the poster that included a line borrowed from Backman Turner Overdrive - 'You ain't seen nothing yet'. The work was produced in the early summer of 1977.

The font on the Bowie / Giltrap album sleeves and chosen for Maiden was originally known as 'Busk'. It was redrawn by Ray Larabie in Japan and rebranded as 'Metal Lord' many years later. I was in touch with Dennis about this aspect yesterday and he said he wasn't aware of the font being on the Bowie poster that was produced in 1976 at the material time. As l understand it, the Maiden lettering was later adapted ( most likely by Steve ) for the front of albums in outline with a red infill. Having said that, the original Busk font also came in outline. Dennis was the studio Manager at Crowe's and interviewed me for a position as 'Artist' in March '77. Dennis was a superb studio Manager and had tremendous energy and enthusiasm. Great days!

@@SparkFilmsTV Thanks for all this amazing info! It was interesting to learn more about this iconic logo. The 70s are the most interesting period of Maiden for me because other than a live recording of Prowler from 1977 we don't have any other material. I hope more resurface at some point. Does Dennis have any audiovisual material to share? Funny that you mention Bachman Turner Overdrive because yesterday I was thinking that Bruce Dickinson ripped of the riff from Not Fragile on a song from his new solo album. Again, any other piece of trivia you have about Maiden I'd love to hear.

There are quite a few recordings that exist from '76 and '77 - some are rehearsals and some from live performances. Barry Purkis ( former Maiden drummer ) has released some of this. Dennis is in the middle of a house move currently. He hasn't mentioned any audio / visual that l wasn't aware of but l have recordings of him singing most of the early set live. During this interview Steve mentions Paul Day and Dennis and alludes to them being short term members of the band - this is not so, Dennis Willcock's stay was around a year and a half and he was very much the focal feature on stage. I live in Colchester in the UK and the illustrator who has worked on album sleeves for the band ( Mark Wilkinson ) lives a few miles north of here. Mark has been involved with Maiden for over ten years and has produced work for an array of prog and metal bands.

We don't have stems for any other post 2000s songs, save for the Dance Of Death album which got a DVD-A release in 2004. AMOLAD is in a better state than every other modern Maiden album though.

Yeah I know both Porcupine Tree and Steven Wilson. I'm familiar with his production work since Jethro Tull's Aqualung. Wilson also does spatial audio (5.1) and iirc he has a home studio.

All 3 done and dusted