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Limited Edition 7" Vinyl - Only 5000 Copies!
"Stranger in a Strange Land" is a song by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released as the second single from their 1986 album Somewhere in Time. The lyrics are about an Arctic explorer who dies and is frozen in the ice. After a hundred years his body is found preserved by other people exploring there. Adrian Smith was inspired to write about this song after talking to an explorer who had had a similar experience of discovering a frozen body.
The guitar solo in "Stranger in a Strange Land" is played by Adrian Smith. The song is one of only three Iron Maiden songs to fade out, the other being "The Prophecy" from Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and "Women in Uniform," a single included on some pressings of Killers. This single is backed by the song "That Girl."
Features:
• Limited Edition - Only 5000 copies
• Original 7" art and audio masters
• All nineteen 1980's 7" singles officially available in the U.S. for first time
Selections:
Side A:
1. Stranger In A Strange Land
Side B:
1. That Girl
Limited Edition 7" Vinyl - Only 5000 Copies!
"Stranger in a Strange Land" is a song by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released as the second single from their 1986 album Somewhere in Time. The lyrics are about an Arctic explorer who dies and is frozen in the ice. After a hundred years his body is found preserved by other people exploring there. Adrian Smith was inspired to write about this song after talking to an explorer who had had a similar experience of discovering a frozen body.
The guitar solo in "Stranger in a Strange Land" is played by Adrian Smith. The song is one of only three Iron Maiden songs to fade out, the other being "The Prophecy" from Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and "Women in Uniform," a single included on some pressings of Killers. This single is backed by the song "That Girl."
Features:
• Limited Edition - Only 5000 copies
• Original 7" art and audio masters
• All nineteen 1980's 7" singles officially available in the U.S. for first time
Selections:
Side A:
1. Stranger In A Strange Land
Side B:
1. That Girl