Rocktober Video #6: "Iron Maiden" by Iron Maiden

What is it with metal bands and kickass eponymous songs?  "Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath, "Motörhead" by Motörhead, and, of course, "Iron Maiden" by Iron Maiden. This video is a live performance of the latter, from 1980, when the band was still young and Paul Di'Anno had not yet been replaced by Bruce Dickinson.  It's from a show at the Marquee, a legendary London club that was instrumental to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement (and, ten to fifteen years before that, many soon-to-be-huge British rock bands had residencies there on their respective ways to the top, including the Stones, Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, The Yardbirds, Jethro Tull, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience).  The energy in the crowd is pretty amazing.  You don't see a lot of shows anymore where the crowd is that amped up yet still under control.  These days, it would probably turn into a mosh pit.  Not that there's anything wrong with that, but there's something to be said for being able to go nuts at a show without getting a forearm shiver to the back.