stick. They obviously hadn't read the lyrics. They just wanted to believe all that rubbish about us being Satanists." On their following album, Piece of Mind, the band placed a backmasked message at the beginning of the song "Still Life," in which the band's drummer, McBrain, gives a drunken impression of Idi Amin. According to McBrain, the message, in which he says What ho', said the t'ing wid the t'ree bonce, 'Don't meddle wid t'ings yo don't understand, was directed at those who had labelled Iron Maiden as devil worshippers, commenting, "We thought, if people were going to be stupid about this sort of thing, we might as well give them something to be really stupid about, you know?" When The Number of the Beast music video was first shown on MTV, Eddie's appearance at the end was edited out after complaints from frightened viewers. Track listing 7" Single 2005 Enhanced CD 2005 7" Red Vinyl 2005 12" Picture Disc Personnel Production credits are adapted from the 7 inch vinyl and reissue picture disc covers. Iron Maiden Bruce Dickinson – lead vocals Dave Murray – guitar Adrian Smith – guitar Steve Harris – bass guitar Clive Burr – drums Additional Personnel Barry Clayton – spoken word introduction Production Martin Birch – producer, engineer Derek Riggs – cover illustration Kevin Shirley – mixing (Live - 2002) Tony Newton – mixing (Live - 2002) Charts Notes Certifications References 1982 singles Iron Maiden songs Songs about nightmares Songs written by Steve Harris (musician) 1981 songs EMI Records singles Obscenity controversies in music