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On Saturday, December 13, Iron Maiden‘s drummer Nicko McBrain, who announced his retirement from touring with the band in December 2024, participated in a book signing event. The event took place at Barnes & Noble in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as per blabbermouth.net. McBrain signed copies of “Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams – The Official Visual History” during the occasion. The Fort Lauderdale Barnes & Noble branch has published video footage and photographs documenting the event.
A magnificent visual celebration of the first 50 years of Iron Maiden, this new book chronicles the evolution of heavy metal’s most prestigious band, with unparalleled input from band members and management.
A truly spectacular and beautiful book, featuring never-before-seen items and photographs, which have been curated with enormous attention to detail over a number of years, it celebrates one of Britain’s most influential and biggest-selling bands, who have become arguably the biggest metal band in the world.
Organized chronologically, “Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams” tells the story of the band from their first pub gigs in 1975 and their first record deal in 1979, through the recording and reception of groundbreaking albums, including their self-titled debut, 1982’s global breakthrough “The Number of the Beast” and the stadium-conquering “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son”, to 2021’s hugely acclaimed double-album “Senjutsu” and the forthcoming “Run For Your Lives World Tour”.
The book traces the evolution of their iconic Eddie mascot, alongside exclusive comments from his creator Derek Riggs, and documents the band’s spectacular and complex stage productions and extensive live tours, including the “Somewhere Back in Time World Tour” of 2008, which made international headlines as Bruce Dickinson piloted the band’s very own Ed Force One 757.
Presenting iconic album and single artworks, photographs of the band’s instruments past and present, stage props, hand-written lyrics and artefacts from the archive and the band’s personal collections, as well as landmark photographs by Ross Halfin, John McMurtrie and more, Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams is rife with revelatory stories and intriguing insights from pivotal band members and management. It is bookended by a foreword from band founder Steve Harris and an afterword by vocalist Bruce Dickinson.
