This is British heavy metal act Iron Maiden's thirty-sixth single and their first release from the band's fifteenth studio album, The Final Frontier. At 76 minutes and 35 seconds, it is Iron Maiden's longest studio record to date.
The track features the boys' own lyrics about the legendary "Lost City of Gold" supposedly located in the Andes - El Dorado being Spanish for "the golden one." Frontman Bruce Dickinson explained the meaning of the song to Kerrang! June 9, 2010; "[El Dorado] has a cynical lyric about the economic crap that's been happening. It seemed a bit like a perfect storm; people were borrowing money like crazy. I thought, 'This is really going to screw people up' and sure enough, we're all in deep doo-doo! And that's what El Dorado is about, it's about selling somebody the myth that 'The streets are paved with gold' and them asking, 'Where do I sign up?'"
Iron Maiden allowed fans to download the song free as an MP3 from their website. However, at their Final Frontier gig in Concord, California Dickinson said the song is only worth listening to live or on CD. The singer blamed Apple boss Steve Jobs and Google for the situation. He told the fans: "The problem is that when you listen to it on tiny little headphones, propelled by a battery, on a device made by Steve Jobs and Google, it sounds like s--t. But the song itself doesn't sound like s--t when you listen to it in the studio or when you buy the CD - it sounds f--king awesome. So we're going to play it for you and it's going to sound great."
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