McKay also commented on Steve Harris’s defence, which was filed with the court: “This entire matter, brought about by obvious copyright theft has cost Harris and Murray a total of £900,000 in damages and legal costs, for lifting two verses of lyrics, verbatim, for ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name’ as well as copying music which they used in the Iron Maiden song ‘The Nomad’, which appeared on Iron Maiden’s ‘Brave New World’ album, released in 2000, eighteen years after the release of ‘The Number Of The Beast’ album which contained ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name’.” The defendants (Steve Harris and Dave Murray) have paid all of the Plaintiff’s considerable legal costs as well as their own legal costs and six figure damages. Once the lower than expected figures had been examined, both parties agreed to settle the claim. “Iron Maiden’s management failed to produce any accurate earnings figures until both parties had already spent well over half a million pounds on legal costs. The lyrics taken from the track ‘Life’s Shadow’ which was on Beckett’s eponymous LP, were written by musician Brian Quinn.
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Steve Harris claimed the lyrics as all his own work and since 1982 has solely profited from the substantial publishing income which totalled circa £2m.
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“Back in 1981, Steve Harris intentionally copied two verses of lyrics, which he lifted word for word, from 1970s band Beckett’s album, for the definitive Iron Maiden song, ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name’. Maiden omitted ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name’ from the setlist during the final leg of last year’s ‘The Book Of Souls’ world tour but due to this settlement, we are fully expecting it to be rightfully reinstated when Maiden hit the road again this May for the ‘Legacy Of The Beast’ tour. However, McKay has said that he expects further claims to follow which he is involved with regarding other Iron Maiden songs.
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This settlement avoids a trial and Maiden now “have permission to use the previously misappropriated works without further dispute”.
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The entire claim has been settled in full with the final and total costs to the defendants totalling £900,000.
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Barton had previously been paid off by Steve Harris in a secret settlement which cost the defendants £200,000 for legal costs and damages but failed to disclose at the time that co-writer Brian Quinn, who knew nothing about the secret settlement, had written the lyrics and the guitar solo. The case was expected to go to the High Court this year with the four defendants, Maiden’s Steve Harris and Dave Murray along with Robert Barton and publishing company Imagem London Ltd, being sued for “unspecified damages over £200,000 for alleged copyright breaches”.īarton and Quinn are the co-writers of ‘Life’s Shadow’. The case centered around the Beckett song ‘Life’s Shadow’ from which two verses of lyrics are said to have been used in classic Maiden track ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name’, as well as a passage of music used in ‘The Nomad’, a track from Maiden’s 2000 album ‘Brave New World’. The action brought against Iron Maiden last year for alleged copyright infringement on ‘Hallowed Be Thy Name’ and ‘The Nomad’ has been settled in full.įormer Lindisfarne manager Barry McKay brought the action on behalf of Brian Quinn, aka Ingham, in May 2017 and you can read all about it right here.