"Bring Your Daughter To the Slaughter" was, according to the Iron Maiden FAQ, "loosely inspired" by the 17th-Century poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. The song is much more menacing than the poem, which finds the narrator gently coaxing a lady toward carnal pleasure.
Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson wrote this song for the 1989 film A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child, the fifth installment of the horror series. The version used in the movie and on the soundtrack features Janick Gers on guitar, before he had actually joined the band.
The "single" (the cover of which depicted Eddie romancing a red devil woman in an alley in Gotham City, the bat-signal visible clearly with several Maiden-esque creatures on the ground) was really more of a mini-album. Besides the title track, there were two covers: "I'm a Mover" (originally by the band Free for their 1968 album Ton of Sobs) and "Communication Breakdown" (originally by Led Zeppelin for their 1969 album Led Zeppelin).
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