Iron Maiden are celebrating their 50th birthday the right way. Rather than going to the pub and moaning about how fucked their knees are, the Brits are reaffirming themselves as an institution. They’re currently on one of their biggest ever tours, the Run For Your Lives trek; they’ve announced a two-day festival at Knebworth for the summer; and they lent The Number Of The Beast to a show-stealing scene in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. A busier group of septuagenarians you will not find, and even then they found time to work on a feature-length documentary about their half-century history.
As you’d expect from a band who fill up-to-18-minute-long songs with enough melodrama to overwhelm a thespian, that doc, Burning Ambition goes all-in. It’s being released worldwide and features a host of super-fans, including such famous faces as Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello and Hollywood megastar Javier Bardem.
