Iron Maiden : no holds barred!

Rock act Iron Maiden is the most successful heavy metal band in the world today.

With total worldwide record sales topping 75 million after a near 30-year recording career, they are also a consistently sought-after live band, as evidenced by their headline appearance before 60,000 fans at 2007's Download Festival.

Their most recent album, "A Matter Of Life And Death", reached No. 1 in Britain and more than a dozen European countries, and was their biggest chart hit in the US for 20 years, proving that the band are as popular as ever.One of the few bands from the '80s to retain their popularity with the hippest rock fans, "Kerrang!" magazine recently ranked them 'the most important band of the last 25 years'.

Following on from the author's 1998 bestselling biography of the band, "Iron Maiden: No Holds Barred!" contains a wealth of new material, which updates the story from 1998 to the present day.

Integrated with many previously unseen pictures and memorabilia from the band's own private collection, this is the up-to-date official history of Iron Maiden, written with the full cooperation of the band by one of the most respected rock writers of his generation.