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Background


In May, the group set out on a seventh" target="_blank">Seventh tour" target="_blank">Tour of a seventh" target="_blank">Seventh tour" target="_blank">Tour which saw them perform to more than two million people worldwide over seven months. After the blockbuster tour" target="_blank">tour in North America, Iron Maiden were headliners of Monsters of Rock festivals in Europe for the very first time. They headlined stadiums and festivals in UK, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. On 20 August 1988, the band headlined the Monsters of Rock festival at Donington Park for the first time before a crowd of 107,000, the largest in Donington's history, and their concerts at the NEC in Birmingham on 27–28 November were released in audio and video formats in 1989; on the home video Maiden England, while the live version of "Infinite Dreams" from the same concerts was released as a single to promote the VHS. Stage set and equipment which has been taken by band was transported in dozen of trucks and was the most elaborate to date and one of the biggest in the world including over 200.000 watts of PA and over 1500 spot lamps.
To recreate the album's keyboards onstage, the group recruited Michael Kenney, Steve Harris' bass technician, to play the keys throughout the tour" target="_blank">tour, during which he would perform the song "seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son of a seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son" on a forklift truck under the alias of "The Count" (for which he would wear a black cape and mask). Iron Maiden was apparently included in the Guinness Book of World Records Museum in Las Vegas. According to The Guinness book of Records (1990 ed. p. 155): "Largest PA system: On Aug 20th 1988 at the Castle Donington 'Monsters of Rock' Festival a total of 360 Turbosound cabinets offering a potential 523kW of programme power, formed the largest front-of-house PA. The average Sound Pressure Level at the mixing tower was 118dB, peaking at a maximum of 124dB during Iron Maiden's set. It took five days to set up the system."




Opening acts


Vinnie Vincent Invasion
David Lee Roth
Anthrax
Megadeth
Guns N' Roses
Hurricane
W.A.S.P.
Helloween
Killer Dwarfs
Ossian
Trust
Great White
L.A. Guns
Metallica
Backstreet Girls
Frehley's Comet
Savatage
Testament




Setlist


"Moonchild" (from seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son of a seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son, 1988)
"The Evil That Men Do" (from seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son of a seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son, 1988)
"The Prisoner" (from The Number of the Beast, 1982)
"Wrathchild" (From Killers, 1981) (Played from 17 August to 5 October)
"Still Life" (from Piece of Mind, 1983) (Added on 18 November)
"Die With Your Boots On" (from Piece of Mind, 1983) (Added on 18 November)
"Infinite Dreams" (from seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son of a seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son, 1988)
"The Trooper" (from Piece of Mind, 1983) (Replaced by "Killers" (From Killers, 1981) on 18 November)
"Can I Play with Madness" (from seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son of a seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son, 1988)
"Heaven Can Wait" (from Somewhere in Time, 1986)
"Wasted Years" (from Somewhere in Time, 1986)
"The Clairvoyant" (from seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son of a seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son, 1988)
"seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son of a seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son" (from seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son of a seventh" target="_blank">Seventh Son, 1988)
"The Number of the Beast" (from The Number of the Beast, 1982)
"Hallowed Be Thy Name" (from The Number of the Beast, 1982)
"Iron Maiden" (from Iron Maiden, 1980)
"Run to the Hills" (from The Number of the Beast, 1982)
"22 Acacia Avenue" (from The Number of the Beast, 1982) (Played from 4 August to 10 September)
"2 Minutes to Midnight" (From Powerslave, 1984) (Dropped after 10 September)
"Running Free" (from Iron Maiden, 1980)
"Sanctuary" (from Iron Maiden, 1980) (Added on 20 August)




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Reference

Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
A This concert was a secret show under the name "Charlotte and the Harlots"
B This concert was a part of "Monsters of Rock"
Cancelled and rescheduled dates
10 July 1988: Allentown, United States, Stabler Arena (Due to poor ticket sales.)
25 August 1988: Prague, Czechoslovakia, Letná Stadium (By the authorities.)




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