Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter

"Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter"
Song by Bruce Dickinson
from the album A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
ReleasedAugust 1989 (1989-08)
Recorded1989
GenreHeavy metal
Length4:57
LabelEMI
Songwriter(s)Bruce Dickinson
Producer(s)Martin Birch[1]
"Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter"
Single by Iron Maiden
from the album No Prayer for the Dying
B-side
Released24 December 1990 (1990-12-24)[2]
GenreHeavy metal
Length4:42[3]
LabelEMI
Songwriter(s)Bruce Dickinson
Iron Maiden singles chronology
"Holy Smoke"
(1990) 		"Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter"
(1990) 		"Be Quick or Be Dead"
(1992)
Alternate cover

"Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter" is the second single from the 1990 Iron Maiden album No Prayer for the Dying.

The song was originally recorded and released by Bruce Dickinson for the soundtrack to A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child,[4][5] but Steve Harris liked it so Iron Maiden rerecorded it.[6] It is the only UK number-one single for the band to date,[7] in spite of the fact that it received very little airplay on the BBC. The song also topped the Finnish Singles Chart and reached number six in Ireland.

  1. ^ "Various – A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (Music From The New Line Cinema Motion Picture Soundtrack)". Discogs. Zink Media, Inc. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  2. ^ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 22 December 1990. p. vi. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference liner was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (Soundtrack)". Nightmare on Elm Street Films. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 17 December 2008.
  5. ^ Wall, Mick (2004). Iron Maiden: Run to the Hills, the Authorised Biography (3rd ed.). Sanctuary Publishing. p. 275. ISBN 1-86074-542-3.
  6. ^ Wall, Mick (2004). Iron Maiden: Run to the Hills, the Authorised Biography (3rd ed.). Sanctuary Publishing. p. 282. ISBN 1-86074-542-3.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference ukc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).