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A limited two album set. White vinyls in separate covers with beautiful cover artwork with Eddie in Japan The Somewhere Back In Time 2008-2009 World Tour was advertised as a way of bringing back the 1980s stage show and forgotten classics for an audience of younger fans, not having been born in time to witness the original. Many of the band's songs had not been played in a long time, as much as 21 years in one case, and two of them (Moonchild and Rime Of The Ancient Mariner) never having been played by the current line-up. The stage set was based around that of the widely celebrated World Slavery Tour of 1984–85, featuring similar pyrotechnics and the return of the giant mummified Eddie, but also included a lighting rig and cyborg walk-on Eddie based on that of Somewhere On Tour 1986. The tour would also see the first use of Ed Force One, Iron Maiden's customised Boeing 757, designed to carry band, crew and equipment across continents. The ground breaking nature of the tour led to the documentary entitled Iron Maiden: Flight 666. The 2008 tour was the second highest grossing of the year for a British artist, with the band reportedly playing to more than 2 million people worldwide over both years. The first leg of Iron Maiden's Somewhere Back In Time World Tour opened in Mumbai, India on 1 February, and continued through Australia, Japan, Los Angeles and Mexico, followed by concerts in Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Puerto Rico and New Jersey, before finishing in Toronto, on 16 March. Over the 45 day period the band played 23 concerts to over 500,000 fans in 11 countries, flying close to 50,000 miles in the specially refitted plane: Boeing 757, dubbed Ed Force One after a competition to name the plane. This album was recorded at the 8 night on the tour and the first night in Japan. The place it happened was at the Pacifico Yokohama stadium in Yokohama, Japan on the 15th of February 2008. Track listing: LP 1: Take Your Mummy On The Road Volume 1 1. Aces High 2. 2 Minutes To Midnight 3. Revelations 4. The Trooper 5. Wasted Years 6. The Number Of The Beast 7. Can I Play With Madness 8. Rime Of The Ancient Mariner LP 2: Take Your Mummy On The Road Volume 2 9. Powerslave 10. Heaven Can Wait 11. Run To The Hills 12. Fear Of The Dark 13. Iron Maiden 14. Band Introduction 15. Moonchild 16. The Clairvoyant 17. Hallowed Be Thy Name