Post by Lydia Purple on Jan 4, 2014 22:31:03 GMT -8
"Bring Your Daughter... To the Slaughter" was originally recorded and released by Bruce Dickinson for the soundtrack to A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, but Steve Harris liked it so Iron Maiden rerecorded it. It is the only UK no.1 single for the band to date, in spite of the fact that it received very little airplay on the BBC.
Bruce Dickinson said "We're going to release this as a single on Christmas Eve to scare the living daylights out of Cliff Richard". This led to the song competing with Cliff Richard's "Saviour's Day" for the 1990 Christmas no.1, but due to not being officially released until the week after Christmas, went straight to no.1 in the UK Singles Chart on 5 January 1991. This was in spite of a ban by the BBC, who refused to play the song on Radio 1 and only showed a 90-second live clip for Top of the Pops.
In addition to the standard 7" and 12" editions, the single was also released as a special edition 7" flip-top "brain pack" edition.
The video clip features footage from The City of the Dead/Horror Hotel (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1960).
(Source: Wikipedia)
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