Description
12 Scrap Book, 40 pages of Saxons memorabilia spanning 40 years.SAXONrsquos 40th Anniversary release, The Eagle Has Landed 40 Live,is a cracking, crunching and wholly representative celebration of four decades as one of the UKrsquos leading heavy metal lights. Entire musical genres have been born and died since Saxon released their selftitled debut in 1979, and through all the eras and all the trends, Saxon have continued to both entertain fans everywhere and prosper with albums and tours saturated in the bandrsquos consistent trademark sound and quality. The Eagle Has Landed 40 Livecelebrates all the classics from their early years with the modern classics which have continued to define Saxon as legends. Forty songs covering four decades, from ldquoState Of Gracerdquo to ldquoMachine Gunrdquo, from the blistering ldquo20,000 FTrdquo to the thunderous ldquoBattering Ramrdquo, Saxon bring you on a victorious, boisterous journey through the human waves at Wacken, the stalwart supporters in Berlin, the mad dogs and Englishmen in London and other illustrious international cities via a selection of songs chosenby none other than Biff Byford himself.nbsp There are also tributes to their old friends and former colleagues Motoumlrhead, with the supercharged ldquoThey Played Rock and Rollrdquo and a cover of ldquoAce of Spadesrdquo featuring an appearance from the dearly departed lsquoFastrsquo Eddie Clarke.nbsp And to round off the MotoumlrSaxon magic, therersquos a roaring version of the classic ldquo747 Strangers in the Nightrdquo featuring Phil Campbell from Helsinki in 2015.The final result is not simply a quintaple album of great music, but a stirring and gloriously LOUD odyssey through golden years of metal history guaranteed to bring the headbanger out of even the mellowest rocker in the room.
