Ross Halfin = Photography perfection
Iron Maiden = Musical perfection
This book = The best of both worlds!

This book is written by Ross Halfin. He has followed Iron Maiden with his camera almost since the start in the late 70:s. It is full with great photos and some text as well. If you're a true Maiden-fan this book is a must! Up the Irons!

This book is fantastic, even for someone who doesn't know Maiden properly, because, describing Maide's rise to the top, it gives us a great general picture of the music industry. I only didn't give it 5-stars because I think writer Mick Wall (maybe because this is an official biography) didn't have the guts to tell the truth about Maiden's line-up with singer Blaze Bayley aboard. Every honest fan knows that this phase ( ) , and Wall finishes the book saying what a great prospect lay ahead of the band, with this singer, a new phase, creativity, the band is strong, etc, etc, etc. Only a few months later, this "great" singer was fired and Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith rejoined the band.

This Book mainly focuses on the bands early days (pgs 1-225) and the last 100 pages get you up to date to 1998-Virtual 11. There are a lot of facts that I did not not know, like Dave Murry was the first member to be fired from Maiden and after 6 months of playing with his pal Adrian Smith in a band caleed Urchin, Steve Asks him to rejoin. Another cool fact that I did not know: was after Dennis Stratton was Fired, Adrian was asked to join the band-----but if Adrian would have turned down the offer-Paul Dianno had another guitar player in line--his friend Phil Collen (Def Lepard). Read the Book Its very good, very interesting reading of the band that did indeed go over the top.

This is the most thorough and exciting book that I have ever read about the band. It might be interesting even for those people who believed that they know everything about Iron Maiden. This book is a long-awaited, up-to-date biography (imagine that there has been no Iron Maiden biography since 1987), to which the foreword is written by none other than Steve Harris. The writer interviewed the members of the band, who told him stories about how it all began, starting with their childhood. It was funny to read how Dave practiced posing with his cardboard guitar in front of the mirror when he was a kid, or how Blaze sang along to the record 'The Number of The Beast' at night in a hotel as a porter about 15 years ago. For those of you who believe it's very easy to become a well-known rock musician the book reveals how hard each of them worked for success, working all day and playing all night in clubs for a few years. I'm really glad that 'Run To The Hills' is not trying to be a 'funny' book with amusing stories while leaving out the 'essentials'. It was good to see how candidly the members spoke about what happened, and how they feel or felt about it. What else can I say? Up the Irons! - by Reka Tumay

There were some interesting quotes, mostly from Bruce, but the book came off sounding like someone's term paper. Hope they got an "A."

This title arrived on the shelves not that long before the official Iron Maiden biography, Run To The Hills, was published, and the differences between the two are naturally obvious. Whereas RTTH author Mick Wall had direct access to all present, and many past, Maiden members, the authors of Infinite Dreams had to make do with scouring press clippings, newspapers and magazines (and, daresay, their memories) to source this slender volume.

And they do an admirable job, although they do opinionate more than you may expect for a biography, and that gives the book more of an 'essay on Maiden' feel to it - refreshing in itself, tho unfortunately not entirely unbiased as you may desire.

If you had the choice between this and the official bio, go for the official. However, to get a slice of history, which - thanks to the quotes culled from years of interviews - Infinite Dreams is a winner.