Released in March 1982, the band’s third studio album topped the U.K. Albums Chart and was the first to go platinum in the U.S. The record also marked the debut of the band’s new lead singer, a 23-year-old Bruce Dickinson, and the final appearance of late drummer Clive Burr.
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View this post on Instagram“But with their backs to the wall, Maiden responded magnificently. Just four months later they emerged with The Number Of The Beast, a record that not only redefined their own career, but also served as a benchmark for every heavy metal album that has followed over the past 30 years,” they added.
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Dickinson responded, “It was quite good, in that way, because I wasn’t going to be asked to sing words that had already been written by [former lead singer] Paul [Di'Anno], or songs Steve had written with him in mind. It was all fresh.”
“I remember saying to them when it was finished: ‘This is gonna be a big, big album. This is gonna transform your career,’” Martin Birch, a British music producer and sound engineer, told Louder Sound. “It just had all the magical ingredients: feel, ideas, energy, execution. And I think the response I got was: ‘Oh, really?’”
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