IRON MAIDEN Honored By BILLBOARD Magazine

May 8, 2008

Billboard magazine, the hugely influential New York-based weekly "bible" of the international music industry, is set to feature IRON MAIDEN in a special supplement contained in its May 17 (street date May 10) issue in recognition of the band's continued and increasing USA and global success. In 40 pages or more, Billboard magazine will give an overview of MAIDEN's current "Somewhere Back in Time" world tour, the band and the key people around them, and their illustrious history as one of the world's premier live bands. Issued the same week as the band's "best-of" album "Somewhere Back in Time", the magazine will also pay MAIDEN the unique honor of having the front cover Billboard logo in MAIDENfont style, marking the first time in the magazine's history that it will not have the copyrighted Billboard logo on the cover.

2008 continues to be a very busy year for IRON MAIDEN. Due to phenomenal ticket demand, the band returns to North America in May and June as the second leg of its "Somewhere Back In Time World" tour before returning to Twickenham on July 5 for its only UK show this year.

International news media has been fascinated by the breadth of the band's touring and means of travel on the first leg of their tour (on Ed Force One, the unique customized Boeing 757, which contained band, crew and equipment and piloted by vocalist Captain Bruce Dickinson) resulting in news pieces and interviews running on virtually every national News network from the international markets visited, including CTV, Sky, CNN, Fox, ABC and Globo Brazil.

CNN International, one of the world's premier international news broadcasters, traveled with MAIDEN on Ed Force One in March through Colombia and Brazil to film live and behind the scenes with the band during "Somewhere Back In Time" world tour. The footage will appear both online and on the CNN International TV channel broadcasts of "Revealed", "a monthly profile of some of the world's most successful, inspirational, creative and influential personalities."

MAIDEN marks the first time that "Revealed" has ever covered a group of people rather than an individual, let alone a rock band, and a metal one at that. CNN International is available for viewing online from May 10 at www.cnn.com/revealed.

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