A Real Dead One

A Real Dead One
Live album by
Released18 October 1993 (1993-10-18)
Recorded25 August 1992 – 4 June 1993 (1992-08-25 – 1993-06-04)
VenueVarious
GenreHeavy metal
Length59:40
LabelEMI
ProducerSteve Harris
Iron Maiden live albums chronology
A Real Live One
(1993)
A Real Dead One
(1993)
Live at Donington
(1993)
Singles from A Real Dead One
  1. "Hallowed Be Thy Name"
    Released: 4 October 1993
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal6/10[2]

A Real Dead One is a live album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 25 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,[3] 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.

  1. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. Iron Maiden - A Real Dead One at AllMusic. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 212. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  3. ^ The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums, 1996 edition