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They prided themselves on getting big without radio airplay, which is where I think the OP got confused. I think Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter got radio

They prided themselves on getting big without radio airplay, which is where I think the OP got confused. I think Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter got radio airplay, for example. They're certainly big enough now, and metal is big enough, that there is actual radio play, but things were different in the early 80s.

teh_klev 13y ago
>They prided themselves on getting big without radio airplay I can't tell what country you're from but in the UK we've always had a diverse selection of music broadcast on the BBC. Back when Iron Maiden were in their late-formative years (after Paul Di'Anno joined in '78 and when "Iron Maiden" was released in 1980) you heard them played on Radio One by presenters such as Tommy Vance [1] on The Friday Rock show [2] all the time. They also got plenty airtime on MTV and Top of the Pops back in the 80's when their first album was released, for example: "Running Free" was released as a single on 23 February 1980, reaching No. 34 in the UK Singles Chart. The band also performed the song on the UK TV show Top of the Pops, refusing the usual tradition for artists to mime and thus becoming the first group to perform live on the show since The Who in 1972 [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Vance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Vance [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Rock_Show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Rock_Show [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden_(album)#Songs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden_(album)#Songs