20 March, 1988.

Let’s face it, the madness is here and is staying for a while, so we may as well make friends with it and all play together nicely.

This was Iron Maiden’s sixteenth single in total and the first from their 1988 album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, their seventh studio album. It was originally a ballad written by Adrian Smith entitled On the Wings of Eagles but together with Bruce Dickinson and Steven Harris, it was reworked and released under a new title.

On its release the song gave the band a top ten hit across Europe, including here in the UK where it spent six weeks on the chart and peaked at number three. It gave the band their first UK top ten hit since Run to the Hills reached number seven in 1982.

The video features Graham Chapman of Monty Python Fame as a cantankerous art teacher, in what would be one of his last appearances on film before his death in 1989.