Fact #109938
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UK tabloid newspaper The Daily Mirror runs a feature headlined "It's Murder! Maggie Gets Rock Mugging", ispired by the fact that the latest Iron Maiden single, Sanctuary, shows the band's horror mascot Eddie crouching over the corpse of a freshly slain Margaret Thatcher, prime Minister of the UK.Full article:
Derek Riggs (cover artist) : The 'flak'... was invented by the band's management. They 'banned' it and they put the black square over her face and then they showed it to the press and cried 'censorship,' but there really wasn't any. The flak was all imaginary and self-generated for publicity. It's an old trick and it nearly always sells records... go and ask all the rappers who swear on their records all the time, if it depressed the record sales they would soon stop doing it.
(Source : http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2944)
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(Source : http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2944)