Iron Maiden's The Clangers
Mitch Benn
Published
The fourth and last (so far) of my YouTube mini-musicals; the fictitious (but, as ever, weirdly plausible) back story of which is as follows:
While it’s a well known fact that Bruce Dickinson is a huge fan of Doctor Who and The Prisoner, not many people know that his favourite SF series was in fact The Clangers… In 1989, perhaps encouraged by Nicko McBrain’s recent triumph on The Sooty Show, Bruce tried to buy the remake rights to The Clangers, re-scoring the 1969 episode “The Egg” as a proof of concept.
Unfortunately he was unsuccessful in his bid, and eventually the BBC rebooted the show in 2015 (narrated by Michael Palin, rather than Iron Maiden).
Here for the first time is that re-scored episode (featuring my son Micah Benn on lead vocals) …