IRON MAIDEN: Can I Play with Madness 7″ + Black Bart Blues EMI EM 49, with black label

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“Can I Play with Madness” was the sixteenth single released by Iron Maiden. Released in 1988, it is the first single from the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album and hit number 3 in the UK charts. The song is about a young man who wants to learn the future from an old prophet with a crystal ball. The young man thinks he is going mad and seeks the old prophet to help him cope with his visions/nightmares. The prophets advice is ignored by the young man and they become angry with each other. The song was originally a ballad named “On the Wings of Eagles”, written by Adrian Smith.

The video of the song was set at Tintern Abbey and features Graham Chapman. In the video, Chapman plays an irritable art instructor who criticizes a young student for drawing Iron Maiden mascot Eddie rather than sketching the abbey ruins. The teacher discovers an underground lab and finally encounters an animated version of Eddie, who leers and reaches out to him from inside a refrigerator. The band appears on a TV screen showing live footage of a concert. Adrian Smith is shown playing left-handed, suggesting a reversed image.

UK: EMI CDEM 49

“Black Bart Blues” is about the suit of armour that rode in the back lounge of Iron Maidens tour buses (named Black Bart). Bruce Dickinson tells that he, his bandmates and their tour manager were driving in a Ford Thunderbird through Florida in 1983, when they passed a gas station with three suits of armour standing outside. So Bruce stopped the car and went to buy one of the three suits of armour that were on sale. The songs lyrics detail a rather infamous story in which a girl stumbled onto the bands tour bus and struck a deal with one of the band members that she’d give them oral sex in exchange for alcohol.

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