Artist: STEVE HARRIS [IRON MAIDEN]
Album: BRITISH LION (CD)

Release date: 2012
Media type: CD

Iron Maiden founder Steve Harris' debut solo/side project album. British Lion is comprised of ten songs that Harris and his collaborators have been working on for the past few years between Iron Maiden tours and releases, and is an album that will surprise and delight music fans the world over.

Following the initial announcement of the album's release in July 2012, Classic Rock revealed that the project originated with a band, named British Lion, which Harris had been mentoring in the early 1990s. Harris confirmed this during an interview with Classic Rock the following month, explaining that he became involved after "Graham Leslie [guitar] came to me with a cassette of songs... and I thought they were really good, so I said I’d try to help his band do something. I ended up managing them and producing them and writing with them." After the original band split up, he "kept in touch with Richie [Taylor, vocals] and Graham, and then Richie was working with another guitarist called David Hawkins, who’s a really talented guy, and so we started writing songs together." After several years of work, due to Harris being occupied with Iron Maiden, the album ultimately consists of "six songs written with Richie and David, there’s one with just me and Richie, and the others are me, Richie, Graham and a couple of other guys that were around at the time."

Harris has also stated that he intends to tour the album at some stage, remarking that, although "there are no shows arranged yet", "I know we’ll be playing clubs, which is great because I’ve not played clubs for years".

TRACKLIST:

1. "This is my God"     4:57
2. "Lost Worlds"     4:58
3. "Karma Killer"     5:29
4. "Us Against the World"     4:12
5. "The Chosen Ones"     6:27
6. "A World without Heaven"     7:02
7. "Judas"     4:58
8. "Eyes of the Young"     5:25
9. "These are the Hands"     4:28
10. "The Lesson"     4:15

Total length: 52:11 

LINE-UP:

Steve Harris - bass
Richard Taylor - lead vocals
David Hawkins - guitar, keyboards
Grahame Leslie - guitar
Simon Dawson - drums

Production: Kevin Shirley - mixing