Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams: The Official Visual History - Hardcover

Harris, Steve; Dickinson, Bruce; Maiden, Iron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500029601 ISBN 13: 9780500029602

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2025

Synopsis

Celebrating 50 years of Iron Maiden, this incomparable visual book, featuring commentary by band members past and present, and never-before-seen photography from the Iron Maiden archives, chronicles the evolution of heavy metal’s most influential and enthralling band since 1975.

Presenting iconic album and single artworks, photographs of the band’s instruments past and present, stage props, hand-written lyrics and artifacts from the Maiden archive and the band’s personal collections, as well as landmark photographs by Ross Halfin and John McMurtrie, Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams is rife with revelatory stories and intriguing insights from pivotal band members and management. It also features a foreword by band founder Steve Harris and an afterword by vocalist Bruce Dickinson.

Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams is the official, definitive legacy volume, celebrating the band’s creativity, dedication, personality, and success.

1,024 color illustrations

About this title

About the Author

Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson, founder Steve Harris, and band members past and present come together to tell the story of their legendary band. Founded in December 1975, Iron Maiden have released 17 studio albums, 13 live albums, four EPs, and seven compilations. Their third album, 1982's The Number of the Beast, is one of the most popular heavy metal albums of all time, having sold 20 million copies worldwide.

From the Back Cover

CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF HEAVY METAL'S MOST REVERED BAND WITH THIS PAINSTAKINGLY COMPILED VISUAL CHRONICLE.

There is no band on Earth with a legacy quite like Iron Maiden’s. For five decades and counting, they have represented the rock and metal world with an unrivaled dedication to their craft and their fans. For the first time, this book reveals the entire story of how their uncompromising vision, fearless creativity, and burning ambition have created a truly multigenerational global phenomenon.

Showcasing career-spanning artworks―iconic albums, singles, posters, and T-shirts―alongside landmark performance and candid behind-the-scenes photography, Infinite Dreams also presents working diaries and lyric sheets, key guitars, drumkits, stage props, and a wealth of previously unrevealed artifacts from cult collections across the globe.

Created with the meticulous, hands-on involvement of band members, collaborators, and artists―past and present―and brimming with unseen treasures from personal and official archives, this statement book is Iron Maiden’s definitive illustrated history, and a milestone publication for fans old, new, and about to be converted . . . Come On You Irons!

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500029601
• ISBN 13: 9780500029602
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352