British band reaches unprecedented brand in its history during the new Run for Your Lives tour, which celebrates its 50th career
THE Iron Maiden he took More than 70 thousand people to the London Stadiumin Londonlast Saturday, 28. The number established a new and imposing record of the group in their home country.
That was The band’s largest audience in Englandconsidering exclusively shows held outside festivals.
Exact count has not yet been confirmed, but an estimated number between 70 and 75,000 fans (via Blabberouth) Present in the presentation. Heavy Metal’s English sextet took the stage of the stadium West Hambassist’s heart team Steve Harris.

Iron Maiden and Run for Your Lives
The show was part of the new tour of the Iron Maiden, Run For your lives. Giro celebrates the band’s 50th anniversary, founded in 1975 by Harris.
The repertoire, as reported since the announcement of the tour, is all focused on the first nine studio albums of the Iron Maiden. Despite that, No Prayer for the Dying (1990) was left aside – no song from him has been played.
Among the main news are songs like “Killers” (It was not played since 1999), “Murders in the Rue Morgue” (since 2005) and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (since 2009).
In addition, the tour of the drummer’s debut Simon Dawson node Iron Maiden. It replaces Nicko McBrainwhich announced his stages retirement at the end of 2024 – the last show was in São Pauloin Allianz Parqueon September 7 of last year.
The Run For Your Lives tour began on May 27, in Budapestin Hungaryand has also passed through countries like Czech Republic, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Belgiumamong others. There are no expected dates for the Brazilbut it is imagined that the excursion arrives here in 2026.
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Iron Maiden on the cover: A Rolling Stone Brazil He launched an edition of unpublished collector for fans of the Heavy Metal band. The biggest albums, the list of shows in Brazil, the power of the group’s market and even a tour of the band’s plane you can see in the printed special, for sale at Profile store.

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Source: Rollingstone

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