Today’s music video of the day is for Iron Maiden’s The Trooper, which was one the band’s few songs to achieve frequent radio airplay in the United States.

The song was inspired by Tennyson’s poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade and the video features scenes taken from the 1936 film of the same name.  The BBC actually banned this video and demanded significant cuts because they felt that the footage from the film was too violent.  Obviously, back in 1983, no one at the BBC had any idea what the future would hold as far as violence in music videos was concerned.

The footage of the band performing was filmed in Brixton Academy and directed by Jim Yukich, who did videos for everyone who was anybody.

Enjoy!