Strange Death in Paradise

The most poignant track was saved till last. Bruce had written ' Strange Death In Paradise' after visiting Hiroshima during his last tour with Maiden, putting himself in the place of a small boy that sees his home city turned into rubble. "Going to Hiroshima had made me feel completely guilty, like it was my fault, or the fault of everyone who was a white Anglo-Saxon," Dickinson remarked with a sad shake of his head. "But I wasn't even born when the bomb dropped." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.