2 minutes to midnight - (cover Iron maiden) video tribute unreleased l

Iron Maiden's single, "2 Minutes to Midnight," was released on August 6, 1984. A protest song about nuclear war and the nuclear arms race, "2 Minutes to Midnight" was written by Adrian Smith and Bruce Dickinson. The song attacks the commercialisation of war and how it is used to fuel the global economy ("The golden goose is on the loose and never out of season"), how rich politicians profit directly from it ("as the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy") and how after a war