Description

Double album on white vinyls with gatefold cover and OBI-strip

The Killer World Tour was a concert tour by the heavy metal band Iron Maiden from 17 February 1981 to 15 November 1981. This would be the band’s first world tour, including their debut shows in North America (where they supported Judas Priest on their World Wide Blitz Tour and UFO on select dates) and Japan where they recorded the live release, Maiden Japan. On top of this, the band moved into larger venues in the United Kingdom, including the Hammersmith Odeon, London. This album was recorded professionally by Dutch radio at de Vereeniging in Nijmegen, Holland on the 28th of April 1981. The tour would ran up to the 10th of September before the band could returned home to England, triumphant but exhausted, for a short break. Just ahead was the daunting challenge of sacking and replacing well liked frontman Paul Di’Anno, whose relationship with Harris (and, by extension, manager Rod Smallwood) had deteriorated steadily out on tour. That switch ultimately paid off handsomely, however, with the career-energizing arrival of former Samson air-raid siren Bruce Dickinson. The band went out on tour again to finisht the last 7 dates through Italy and England with their new singer before beginning the recording of the following year’s The Number Of The Beast.

Track list:
1. The Ides Of March
2. Wrathchild
3. Purgatory
4. Sanctuary
5. Remember Tomorrow
6. Another Life
7. Genghis Khan
8. Killers
9. Innocent Exile
10. Murders In The Rue Morgue
11. Twilight Zone
12. Phantom Of The Opera
13. Iron Maiden
14. Running Free
15. Transylvania
16. Drifter
17. Prowler