@@neillenet291 maybe they have been taught, but they only remembered what was needed to pass the next test... that´s just too long ago for this generation
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender"-Winston Churchill
This speech always give me goosebumps. Great Britain was alone against the Nazi War Machine, which had most of Europe by this time, and Winston Churchill stated in no uncertain terms this is a fight to the death.
@@CharlieJ69 thats why this song hits so hard, it perfectly portrays how desperate and brave the UKs defense was before the US declared war. Those pilots over the english channel were literally fighting for the freedom of the world.
A great Iron Maiden song off Powerslave. This song is about Ace pilots of WW2 between the RAF and the German Luftwaffe. Too many recommendations to list.
@@snowblindoz Spitfire planes that a Canadian engineer headed the entire project for while dying with Polio at the same time. Canadian pilots and a few Americans were crossing the border to fight as well. There's actually a Heritage Moment on her.
@@daniellysohirka5079 I know the history, i've spent 54yrs studying it. Doesn't change the fact that i've never heard of the BRAF and that Aces High is predominantly about The Battle of Britain, in which people of many countries participated.
It’s about the Battle of Britain in WW2, when the British pilots in their Spitfire and Hurricanes fought off the German Messerschmitts and so the Germans couldn’t invade Britain.
@@jankowalski6338 Not only that but the Polish air force defended the river clyde ship yards, if the clyde shipyards got bombed Britain would have lost the war. Thankfully the Poles did a good job and the clyde shipyards were able to produce more ships and subs than the nazi's could sink.
@@jankowalski6338 On America's orders. That deal got done at Yalta between Stalin n Roosevelt. Shortly after Britain arranged for supplies to be airlifted to Poland after the Russians occupied the East of Poland but the Russians refused them the use of their airfields. Very little we could do at that point!
Battle of Britain, Spitfires, taking on German bombers and Messerschmitt 109 fighters, defending their city's, family's and country people from attack. That was a generation of real Heros, who did what they had to do.. Iron Maiden another Great Band..
There were a ton of different nationalities of pilots present at the battles, as Pilots from Czechoslovakia and Poland moved to the UK after the nations fell, along with countless pilots from the Commonwealth including Canada, Australia. There was even a Rhodesian and Jamaican pilot.
saw them live 2 years ago....they had a life size replica of a British Spitfire ww2 fighter above the stage and it would move over the stage during this song...was awesome
Ditto... took my son to his first 'real' concert. Saw them 5-6 times in the 80's-90's and with this current LotB tour, they still prove to be a band to be reckoned with. In fact, they may have actually been better than decades ago.
Aces High, along with Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, are my favorite Iron Maiden songs. In fact, the whole Power Slave album is my favorite Iron Maiden experience.
This was about the actual Battle of Britain in 1940 during WW II, when the British Royal Air Force fought the nazi German Luftwaffe air force over England.
Steve Harris on bass is just tearing Shiite apart. And he probably wrote the song. He wrote so many of their songs. Thx for reacting to this gem. Beautiful.
Some would say to the point of pettiness (over losing the 'Colonial Uprising' lol), by writing 'Run to the Hills'. Don't get me wrong, I love the song...but yeah it's like that.
@@grobin3745 You realise that 'Run to the Hills' is about European explorers/travellers/invaders coming over and taking from the Natives, nothing about losing the war of independence.
This song is about the battle of Britian which too plave in the fall of 1940 about 1 year after the start of WW2. THE ME-109 was the front line german fighter in the war. The Spitfire was the British fighter which took on the Germans over the skies of England. There is a lot of historical info out there about it. This song is also a tribute to the Royal Air Force who managed to fight off the German attackers while being greatly outnumbered. True heroes of the war.
The British were lucky that the Me-109E-1 and E-3 didn't have the possibility to carry drop tanks. The Germans' "loiter time" over the English coast was only 20 minutes before they had to hurry back over the canal to the airfields of Northern France. They couldn't have accompanied bombers further into the isles even if they had wanted to.
@@revylokesh1783 The integrated RADAR along the southern coast was what the British were lucky to have rather than limited enemy loiter time. Even if drop tanks had been a capability for the Me 109 the RAF still had the advantage. It's why, with less numbers, they outdid the Luftwaffe. That and Goerings poor tactics.
@@jpgduff yeah, true, also. Overall, it was a pretty close call for Britain though. At least there was a certain chivalry between the Luftwaffe and RAF pilots, not like on the later Eastern front.
@@revylokesh1783 If Goering had maintained the cadence of attacks then nothing the R.A.F. did would have mattered. But the Luftwaffe changed tactics giving the R.A.F. breathing space. Also remember that any British (or Polish, Canadian, French etc - not all the heroes were british) pilot who was able to bail out was over home turf - they were back in a plane the next day. German pilots downed over the south of England were P.O.W.s and so out of the equation. It was the perfect storm in many ways.
Up the Irons, Maiden is classic metal. Song about WW II. Old metal is influenced by classical music and jazz music which is why its so well structured, complex, detailed, technical. Even their guitar solos. Especially prog rock, metal.
You should check out their live concerts especially from Rock in Rio. "Fear of the Dark" for example. One of very few bands where the live version often are better than the studio version. Always puts on an amazing energy show.
I've been listening to Iron Maiden since I was a kid. This song is of my favs. It's almost like I'm in the cockpit of the plane. I gotta say. Lex is so insightful. Her analogy of the marriage is pretty spot on. The guitars do seem feminine, especially the guitarist makes it sing.
I like how you put "Classical Metal" in the title. A couple nights ago you were discussing if there is Classic Metal. Oh yes there is! This whole album is Classic Metal. It is part of a category called N.W.O.B.H.M., New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. Which also included bands such as Motorhead, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Fastway, Diamond Head and many others. It's fantastic category to explore because of how influential and essential to the Heavy Metal sound these bands were. Hope we'll see ya tonight, Take care!
It's also fascinating to me just how differently Metal evolved in the U.S. compared to Europe. You can see a lot more of Classic Metal in some of the genres like Power Metal that sprung up shortly after and that are to this day still bigger in Europe than in the U.S.. Europe to this day just plain does Metal different and it's even demonstrated in their massive Metal festivals like Wacken Open Air, Hellfest, and Graspop Metal Meeting
@@mournblade1066 I saw Fastway open for AC/DC in 1983. Fast Eddie Clarke from Motörhead, Pete Way from UFO and Jerry Shirley from Humble Pie, along with some young unknown singer. I don’t think they lasted long. You probably aren’t missing much.
@@mournblade1066 Priest was around long before nwobhm like Sabbath was and Motorhead predated it by a few years too so I wouldn't include either of them either. Only Fastway song I know is Say What You Will but it's a good one!
This is a song written to honor the British Royal Air Force in both World War 1 and 2. Iron Maiden's singer, Bruce Dickinson, is a commercial air pilot and always has had fascination with aviation.
You guys should go see Iron Maiden next time they come around. Their shows are over the top and amazing. I've loved them since the 80's. MORE MAIDEN! Keep up the awesome work and open minds.
I saw Iron Maiden back in 1985 on the Powerslave tour. WASP opened for them. It was the second loudest concert I'd ever been to. KISS were the loudest. I saw them on the Creatures of the Night tour before they took off the makeup. Good stuff!
I had a feeling when I used to listen to this cassette on my walkman while working my first Summer job picking corn that it would become one of the classic metal albums of all time. I wore this thing out. Every song is classic.
As many have already said, it's an awesome song based around the reality of air to air combat during WW2, where the RAF had a very short window between detecting an incoming attack and getting off the ground in order to defend against it. The references to WW2 era planes (Spitfire, ME-109 etc) are all very clear, but it's worth noting that there was also a movie of the same name, which centred on the exact same scenario during WW1. Joining the RFC (Royal Flying Corps) was seen by some as an easy option compared to the horrors of trench warfare, but the reality was that those pilots had a life expectancy which was measured in minutes. It would be nice to think that was a thing of the past, hopefully when Putin finally rots in his shallow grave we'll find some cooler heads to take over.
With their radar detection system of the Lufwaffe and the Canadian woman engineer designing the Spitfire planes on Canadian soil and shipping them over while slowly dying of Polio. Those Spitfire planes were also sending lots of Canadian pilots as well, including my great grand father who was a mechanic. All that team work and the brilliance of the Spitfire plane design won the Battle of Britain.
"Run to the Hills" is one that you guys would dig...unless you have already done it and I just missed...then never mind! lol (Props from the South Side of StL btw! Always appreciate you guys!) 😁
Battle of Britain - Note they hear the air raid siren, scramble and are hunting bombers, the Bandits are German ME 109 and the character in the song is in a Hawker Spitfires...
Hey guys what's up! Greetings from South florida! Love me some old iron maiden! Brings me back to my younger days. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!
Great song to listen to as a suggestion The Rankin Family Chi Mi Na Morbheanna (Mist covered mountains) in Gaelic. I sang this for 2 years as my daughter's lullaby. I just started watching you with your Iron Maiden reactions. Have to give you a lot of respect for the journey you are taking musically.
You're analogy about playing the guitar being like making love to a woman is spot on. If you're good with your fingers it doesn't matter what equipment you've got lol
I highly recommend The Chameleons. They were a huge, yet, underrepresented part of the post punk music scene. Their music is very dreamy too, especially songs like Less Than Human, Second Skin, and Swamp Thing. I think you both will like them a lot. 🖤
I agree with relating guitars to females. Most of us name our guitars female names, and we use them to sing with. First song I had heard when I discovered music for myself at age 8… life changing! Cheers you two!
lex hits the nail on the head quite often on rock and metal. analogies I think like the marriage between the lead guitar and the vocals, it's really cool how she catches that
Your wife is the bomb! My wife is also the bomb! I appreciate how both of our wives are thoughtful and because of that meaningful to us. I'll subscribe for you both.
@Brad and Lex the song is about from the viewpoint of a British spitfire pilot during WW2 when the German bombers heavily bombed Britain in the Blitzkrieg attacks.
I heard Children of Bodom's cover of this song before I heard the actual song. I love both of them, the tempo was perfect for playing action games lol.
The Battle of Britain was an ariel war with british fighters against swarms of Luftwaffe fighters and bombers coming to raid Britain from France every day. British fighter squadrons had to "scramble" to get airbourne to meet them before the Germans could reach their target bombing areas. When played live often the maidens have a mock-up of a Spitfire.
The German Luftwaffe Messerschmitt 109 and the British RAF Spitfire's fought the Battle Of Britain in WW2. This song is about those battles. Many of Maidens songs are based historical events, figureheads and writings, but can also be based on mythology
This is a tribute to the RAF during the Battle of Britain in WW2. The RAF were some badasses and kept the Luftwaffe in check by denying them control of the air and thereby preventing an invasion by Nazi Germany.
It's about the battle of Britain where Britain was, the only country in the west that was standing up to Nazi Germany. The Battle of Britain was an air war where Hitler and his generals tried to achieve air dominance in preperation to a ground invasion of the UK. Britain won the battle of Britain which let the allies once America joined the war to use Britain as a staging post for D Day and the liberation of mainland Europe. "Never in the field of conflict have so many owed so much to do few." Sir Winton Chuchhill.
My grandfather worked for Northrop Aircraft during WW2. And, I always wondered what it would be like to be a pilot in that war. It would be frantic. It would be confusing. But, above that it would be exhilarating. And, terrifying at best. And, I would do it again and again.
Specifically the flying aces during the Great War. Bruce Dickenson's vocals are operatic in nature so that's why he sounds like that. The style is very dramatic.
As people have already said below, this song is about WWII. Specifically, it's about a Spitfire pilot of the RAF, during the Battle of Britain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain
