Beast over Hammersmith is a live Iron Maiden album, released on 4 November 2002. It was recorded twenty years earlier at the Hammersmith Odeon, during The Beast on the Road tour, and Steve Harris and Doug Hall co-produced and mixed it for the Eddie's Archive box set. The show was captured just two days before The Number of the Beast reached shops, so the new songs were still brand new to the crowd, although "Run to the Hills" was already out as a single.
It's a snapshot of the band at the start of their rise. The video footage was held back at the time because the lighting made it look poor, though an abridged version later appeared on The History of Iron Maiden – Part 1: The Early Days in 2004. The album also marked the last Iron Maiden release with cover art by Derek Riggs, and it finally reached vinyl in November 2022.
Beast Over Hammersmith: tracklist, credits and charts
18 tracks · 1:35:30Tracklist
- Disc 1
- 1Murders in the Rue Morgue (live ’82)Steve Harris4:32
- 2Wrathchild (live ’82)Steve Harris3:31
- 3Run to the Hills (live ’82)Steve Harris4:20
- 4Children of the Damned (live ’82)Steve Harris4:38
- 5The Number of the Beast (live ’82)Steve Harris5:08
- 6Another Life (live ’82)Steve Harris3:45
- 7Killers (live ’82)Steve Harris and Paul Di’Anno5:47
- 822 Acacia Avenue (live ’82)Steve Harris and Adrian Smith6:56
- 9Total Eclipse (live ’82)Burr, Harris, Murray4:14
- Disc 2
- 1Transylvania (live ’82)Steve Harris5:51
- 2The Prisoner (live ’82)Steve Harris and Adrian Smith5:49
- 3Hallowed Be Thy Name (live ’82)Steve Harris7:31
- 4Phantom of the Opera (live ’82)Steve Harris6:53
- 5Iron Maiden (live ’82)Steve Harris4:20
- 6Sanctuary (live ’82)Di’Anno, Harris, Murray4:13
- 7Drifter (live ’82)Steve Harris9:19
- 8Running Free (live ’82)Paul Di’Anno and Steve Harris3:44
- 9Prowler (live ’82)Steve Harris5:00
- Produced by
- Martin Birch, Doug Hall, Steve Harris, Doug Hall, Steve Harris
- Recorded at
- Eventim Apollo
- Recorded
- 20 March 1982
- Mixed by
- Doug Hall
- Engineered by
- Doug Hall
- Length
- 1:35:30
Line-up
- Clive Burr · drums (drum set)
- Steve Harris · electric bass guitar, background vocals
- Dave Murray · electric guitar
- Adrian Smith · electric guitar, background vocals
- Bruce Dickinson · lead vocals
Peak chart positions
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| UK Rock & Metal Albums · 2022 | 4 |
| Scottish Albums · 2022 | 18 |
| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) · 2022 | 51 |
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| MusicBrainz | 4 November 2002 | |
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| Wikidata | 4 November 2002 |
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| coverartarchive | 1402×1409 | upscaled |