Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition

5/10/2026

With over forty albums released and more than 150 million copies of those sold across their half century of making music, Iron Maiden look like they are finally having to come to terms with their age and begin to wind down. This retrospective takes us back to the very beginning, playing from the back of their van to pubs in the English Midlands and thence onwards through ever-larger venues and, thanks to the omnipresence of the menacingly skeletal "Ed" on their album sleeves, to international stardom. Using a comprehensive collection of stadium and personal archive, this puts a lot of meat onto the bones of their story - and it does it warts and all. This isn't a band for whom it's been plain sailing and though they don't exactly dwell on the issues that have dogged them at times, they don