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Jacket Description/Back: CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF HEAVY METAL'S MOST REVERED BAND WITH THIS PAINSTAKINGLY COMPILED VISUAL CHRONICLE. There is no band on Earth with a legacy quite like Iron Maiden's. For five decades and counting, they have represented the rock and metal world with an unrivaled dedication to their craft and their fans. For the first time, this book reveals the entire story of how their uncompromising vision, fearless creativity, and burning ambition have created a truly multigenerational global phenomenon. Showcasing career-spanning artworks--iconic albums, singles, posters, and T-shirts--alongside landmark performance and candid behind-the-scenes photography, Infinite Dreams also presents working diaries and lyric sheets, key guitars, drumkits, stage props, and a wealth of previously unrevealed artifacts from cult collections across the globe. Created with the meticulous, hands-on involvement of band members, collaborators, and artists--past and present--and brimming with unseen treasures from personal and official archives, this statement book is Iron Maiden's definitive illustrated history, and a milestone publication for fans old, new, and about to be converted . . . Come On You Irons! Review Quotes: An astonishingly well-documented and lovingly curated look at a band that changed rock forever. Its fans will love it, but the appeal isn't limited to them. A headbanging romp of a beautifully designed book.-- "Kirkus Reviews" (10/1/2025 12:00:00 AM) Review Quotes: Iron Maiden have helped spawn an entire genre of music.--Paul Stanley, Kiss Review Quotes: [An] absolutely stunning, photo-heavy history of the group. As well as a mass of photographs, there are some fascinating tickets and flyers from the very early days, some of founding member, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris' diary entries from back in the day, guitars, t-shirts, battle vests, and so much more. It's a pricey book, but for hardcore fans it's a must.-- "Music Connection" Review Quotes: Mind-blowing... Even if you're a die-hard superfan and Maiden dork like myself, there's loads of stuff that you're guaranteed to have never seen, no matter how long you've spent on the internet, looking through all the CD booklets, reading fan club magazines, etc.-- "Loudwire" Review Quotes: The most in-depth collection to date, when it comes to documenting [IRON MAIDEN's] incredible history visually... loaded to the brim with visual ephemera that is a mix of things that perhaps you had in your collection or on your wall--and a wealth of images you've probably never seen before.-- "Ultimate Classic Rock" Review Quotes: A shrine to one of heavy metal's greatest bands of all time... Holding it is like holding the weight of half a century of heavy metal history... For the fans who have been there from the beginning, to the new fans discovering these legends for the first time, Infinite Dreams is an essential addition to your collection. It doesn't just tell the story of Iron Maiden... it lets you live it!-- "LoudTO" Review Quotes: To say that this book is a must-have for any fan of IRON MAIDEN is a gigantic understatement. I would even be as bold as to say that everyone who gets this book will learn something new, no matter how much you think you know about the band and its history... With the holidays right around the corner it would make a fantastic addition for the IRON MAIDEN fan in your life, or even for yourself because you might think you have everything MAIDEN but you don't have this.-- "KNAC.com" Review Quotes: Contains a wealth of photos depicting the band on and off stage as well as images of memorabilia, gear and album-related artwork. And of course, the band's favorite and wickedly demented mascot, Eddie, is featured in this heavy-duty coffee-table biography.-- "Forbes" (12/9/2025 12:00:00 AM) Publisher Marketing: Presenting iconic album and single artworks, photographs of the band's instruments past and present, stage props, hand-written lyrics and artifacts from the Maiden archive and the band's personal collections, as well as landmark photographs by Ross Halfin and John McMurtrie, Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams is rife with revelatory stories and intriguing insights from pivotal band members and management. It also features a foreword by band founder Steve Harris and an afterword by vocalist Bruce Dickinson. Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams is the official, definitive legacy volume, celebrating the band's creativity, dedication, personality, and success.
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