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Dickinson roamed the stage with flamethrowers during the song. “We don’t have any new songs for you tonight,” said Dickinson while explaining the show’s “legacy” program, “but we have a lot of great f-ing toys.” “Flight of Icarus” featured a gleaming winged statue that loomed over the stage in radiant pride, only to buckle and fall as a symbol of hubris and betrayal. The show’s top-flight production would put many Broadway blockbusters to shame. The first arc concluded during the Charge of the Light Brigade with Iron Maiden classic “The Trooper.” While guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers traded fretboard-splintering solos, Dickinson had a saber duel with a 10-foot-tall, stilt-walking version of Iron Maiden’s ghoulish mascot Eddie. “If you put it on social media, make sure you spell it right – with a ‘C’,” he said. I wanna hear you!” Fans packing Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre from the pavilion to the lawn eagerly obliged.īassist Steve Harris sprinted side to side across the stage to shout his lyrics back to fans in the front rows during “2 Minutes to Midnight.” Dickinson introduced “The Clansman” as a song about a struggle for freedom in medieval Scotland. “Scream for me, Chicago!,” Dickinson commanded for the first of many times. During “Where Eagles Dare” and its tale of a bold parachute raid on an alpine castle during World War II, Dickinson prowled the catwalk above drummer Nicko McBrain. As the band took the stage with full-throttle intensity for “Aces High,” a nearly full-scale British Supermarine Spitfire fighter plane descended from the rigging to strafe the crowd. The show was built into three acts, and the first had a theme of military conflict. Singer Bruce Dickinson lent his lupine howl to songs from Iron Maiden’s Blaze Bayley era with “Sign of the Cross” from 1995’s The X Factor and “The Clansman” from 1998’s Virtual XI.

The band highlighted a song from each, including the title cut from 1992’s Fear of the Dark and “The Wicker Man” from 2000’s Brave New World. In addition to bringing a clutch of songs from 1983’s Piece of Mind and 1982’s The Number of the Beast, the band’s current activity helps to promote its latest wave of four remastered digipak releases.

The sextet returned to the Chicago area on Thursday, bringing dazzling spectacle and virtuoso playing for its “Legacy of the Beast” tour, the band’s first visit since 2017’s date supporting The Book of Souls. One of the world’s premiere heavy metal bands of the 20th century, British powerhouse Iron Maiden continue to be a force in the new millennium.

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