The Evil That Men Do (song)

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"The Evil That Men Do"
Single by Iron Maiden
from the album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
B-side	"Prowler '88" "Charlotte the Harlot '88"
Released	1 August 1988
Recorded	1988
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	4:33
Label	EMI
Songwriter(s)	Adrian Smith Bruce Dickinson Steve Harris
Producer(s)	Martin Birch
Iron Maiden singles chronology
"Can I Play with Madness" (1988) "The Evil That Men Do" (1988) "The Clairvoyant (Live in 1988)" (1988)
Music video
"The Evil That Men Do" on YouTube

"The Evil That Men Do" is a song by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It is the band's seventeenth single and the second from their seventh studio album, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988). The single debuted at number six in the UK charts and quickly rose to number five. The single's B-sides are re-recordings of "Prowler" and "Charlotte the Harlot" which appear as tracks number one and seven/eight respectively on the band's debut album Iron Maiden.

The title of the song is taken from Marcus Antonius's speech while addressing the crowd of Romans after Caesar's murder (Act 3, scene 2, "The Forum") in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." Bruce Dickinson may sometimes repeat this before playing the song, but with the order of the clauses reversed (as he did in Rock in Rio). The poetic lyrics of the song are not related.

The guitar solo in "The Evil That Men Do" is played by Adrian Smith while the guitar solo in "Prowler '88" is played by Dave Murray. In "Charlotte the Harlot '88", the first guitar solo is played by Dave Murray followed by Adrian Smith.

The music video was filmed at The Forum in Inglewood, CA, during the Seventh Tour of a Seventh Tour in 1988.