A Real Dead One is a live album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 18 October 1993. It was recorded at various concerts across Europe, during the Fear of the Dark Tour in 1992 and the Real Live Tour in 1993. It features songs from the very beginning of the band's career (1975) to the Powerslave era (1984), while counterpart A Real Live One contains songs from only the post-Powerslave albums.
The album spent three weeks on the UK chart,The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums, 1996 edition and was promptly followed by Live at Donington.
When Maiden rereleased all of their pre-The X Factor albums in 1998, this album was combined with A Real Live One to form the two-disc A Real Live Dead One.
The cover is by long-time Maiden artist Derek Riggs, and depicts Eddie as a disc jockey in Hell.
"Hallowed Be Thy Name" was released as a single and hit No.9 on UK singles chart.
Track listing
Personnel Production credits are adapted from the album liner notes.
Iron Maiden Bruce Dickinson – vocals Dave Murray – guitar Janick Gers – guitar Steve Harris – bass, production, mixing Nicko McBrain – drums
Additional musicians Michael Kenney – keyboards
Production Mick McKenna – engineering Tim Young – mastering Derek Riggs – cover illustration Guido Karp – photography George Chin – photography Tony Mottram – photography
Charts Chart (1993) Peakposition Australian Albums (ARIA) N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart. 138 Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts) 12Japanese Albums (Oricon) 16
Chart (1998) Peakposition
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