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The Story Behind "The Trooper" by Iron Maiden and the Real-Life Battle that Inspired It
One of the most distinctive elements of Iron Maiden's music is that mid-tempo to fast-paced gallop one hears in numerous songs throughout their 17-album catalog. That sound became reinforced in American listeners minds with the release of the bands fourth...
https://americansongwriter.com/the-story-behind-the-trooper-by-iron-maiden-and-the-real-life-battle-that-inspired-it/

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The Story Behind “The Trooper” by Iron Maiden and the Real-Life Battle that Inspired It

One of the most distinctive elements of Iron Maiden's music is that mid-tempo to fast-paced gallop one hears in numerous songs throughout their 17-album catalog. That sound became reinforced in American listeners’ minds with the release of the band’s fourth album Piece of Mind and its second single “The Trooper." This was the second album with frontman Bruce Dickinson and first with drummer Nicko McBrain, who became the final member of the classic Maiden lineup. The high energy track remains one of the band’s most beloved and performed songs on tour, and a little over a decade ago even inspired the name of Maiden’s Trooper beer.

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Robots are fighting robots in the Ukrainian war. Weird how this is now first happening in basically the same place that people say the first modern war took place. #ChargeOfTheLightBrigade

#SantaASOngProverbOrQuote

“Forward, into the fog!”
Could Santa save the day?
How though Rudolph knew not
His nose had glowed red.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and fly.
Into the foggy evening
Rode the nine reindeer.

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord… | Poetry Foundation

Half a league, half a league,

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Half a tin, half a tin,
Half a tin onward,
All in the saucepan of Beans
Poured the one hundred.

#BakedBeans #Tennyson #ChargeOfTheLightBrigade #Poetry

Just a head’s up RE: “The Charge of the Light Brigade“ (1936) ⚠️CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING⚠️ there are scenes where a stuntman was killed and other scenes where over 100 horses were injured and approx. 25 were killed doing /as the results of stunts
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It’s the end of the year, & this was my favourite poem when I was nine. Hywel, in the background, is saying “it’s like a nightmare” #ChargeOfTheLightBrigade