Iron Maiden takes Texas in 1982 – a classic feature from the vaults

Ahead of the release of new album The Book of Souls – and the news that Bruce Dickinson will fly the band around the world on a jumbo jet – Rock’s Backpages travels back to a piece titled Iron Maiden: Unleashed With the Beast, published in Sounds on 28 August 1982Corpus Christi lies humid and unhurried under a scorching Texas sun. The shining orb’s efforts to reduce the populace to mobile blobs of molten jelly are tempered by the gentle sea breeze that idles in from the G