After the success of Piece of Mind and its supporting tour, the band

After the success of Piece of Mind and its supporting tour, the band released their fifth studio album, Powerslave , on 9 September 1984. The album features the singles ” 2 Minutes to Midnight ” and ” Aces High “, the title track, and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge ‘s poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner ). Powerslave was another chart success, reaching number 12 on the Billboard 200 and eventually number 1 in the UK. The band’s fifth studio album sold over 4 million copies in its first year after the premiere. The tour following the album, called World Slavery Tour , was the band’s largest to date with 193 shows in 28 countries over 13 months, playing to an estimated 3,500,000 people. Many shows were played back to back in the same city, such as in Long Beach, California, where the band played four consecutive concerts at Long Beach Arena for a combined audience of 54,000 fans. Iron Maiden also made their debut appearance in South America, where they co-headlined the Rock in Rio festival with Queen for an audience estimated at 350,000–500,000 people. The tour started in August 1984 with five shows in Poland. Iron Maiden were the first Western artists to bring full-scale production behind the Iron Curtain . The band’s third official video, entitled Behind the Iron Curtain , was released in October 1984. The World Slavery Tour documentary brought footage of the band touring Eastern Europe in 1984, performing shows in the countries visited, Behind the Iron Curtain was the first documentary ever published by a Western artist that showed them touring the countries of Eastern Bloc . The documentary movie was broadcast by MTV and local TV stations around the world.