Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Tour Books: World Slavery Tour 1984/1985. Europe and USA dates.23 pages all colour.








This is the book made probably for the USA leg of the tour.It has 23 pages all colour with loads of promo and onstage photos.The tour dates are from August 1984 to July 1985. It has also different photos in comparison with the programme for the Europe tour. Spectacular!!!

Tour Books: World Slavery Tour 1984/1985. Japanese tour programme. 36 pages colour and black and white.








And now...tchan tchan tchan tchan!!!!! Prepare yourselves for this outstanding Tour Book,made specially for the Japanese dates. Its really marvelous!! First , and again, it has nothing to do with the European and USA programmes, completely different my friends!! Loads and loads of promo , onstage black and white and colour photos.It has 36 pages, the size is like a vinyl LP. See the photos mates!

Tour Books: Somewhere In Time 1986/1987 World Tour. Europe dates, 24 pages all colour . Comes with merchandise insert.








First Tour Book made for the phenomenal Somewhere In Time World Tour 1986/87.
This programme has 24 pages all colour and brings the European dates from September to December 1986. Its a superb book with loads of promo and onstage photos. Also comes with the original merchandise insert, it is very difficult to find this books complete with this insert sheet. For your information, they only started to make this merchandise inserts on the Powerslave tour, before was a form page inside the book.
I also purchase this nice card that you see on the picture, its an invitation party card to celebrate the end of the tour, but it was not made to be included on this book.

Tour Books: Somewhere In Time World Tour 1986/1987. USA dates, 24 pages all colour.









This is the tour book made for the USA leg of the Tour, dates are from September 1986 until May 1987.It has 24 pages all colour with some different photos in comparison with the Europe programme. Another spectacular edition!!

Tour Books: Somewhere In Time World Tour 1986/1987, Japanese tour programme. Just Japan dates, 36 pages colour and black and white.










And now, ladies and gentleman!!!! Again, prepare yourselves for this, tchan tchan tchan tchan!!!! The spectacular and phenomenal book made for the Japanese dates of the Tour, yeahhhhh!!!!
This programme is colossal, again, it is 99.9% different from the USA and Europe programmes. It has 36 pages full with black and white as well as colour photos from out and onstage. The photos are simply marvelous!!! The text is all in Japanese language, but it doesn't matter, just for the photos is well worth to buy it!

Tour Books:Seventh Tour Of A Seventh Tour 1988, World dates, 24 pages all colour. First programme.









This Tour book is something special to me because it was the first I ever bought! It is also one of my favourites in terms of text and photos. This is a real good read, they talk about some funny stories that happen on the tours, marvelous!!It was made for the Seventh Son World Tour 1988, it has 24 pages all colour, with spectacular photos. It has all the tour dates, since May until November.

Tour Books: Seventh Tour Of A Seventh Tour 1988. Second programme with the World dates. 24 pages all colour.











Second Tour Book made for the Seventh Son World Tour 1988.This programme is completely different from the first one with the blue cover, and is a kind of thank you to the fans for their tremendous support to the band and for putting the album straight in UK chart number one for the second time in their history.The Book has 24 pages, with all the tour dates. Rod makes some comments about the tour and then the programme runs until the end just in a photographic way, mo more text!

Tour Books: Donington Monsters Of Rock Festival 1988 programme. 44 pages all colour.







This is the official Tour Book from the tremendous Monsters Of Rock Festival in castle Donington, 20th August 1988.
The programme has 44 pages all colour and Maiden have the honour of seven pages because they headlined the Festival , their first of many times to come!Other bands on this book are : Guns N' Roses, David Lee Roth, Megadeth, Helloween, The Bailey brothers and the super famous Rock DJ Neal Kay who went there to put music before and between the shows. For the ones who don't know, Neal Kay had a very important role in Maiden and the NWOBHM history. He was responsible for playing the Maiden demo tape on Band wagon rock club over and over causing a serious Iron Maiden following between the younger rock fans.