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The Trooper is a song by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, single of their 4th studio album Piece of Mind released in 1983.
« Into the valley of death rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, volleyed and thundered, 'The Trooper.' »; this is with this quotation from Tennyson that is generally introduced the track during the shows by the frontman Bruce Dickinson.
This song is indeed based on a Lord Tennyson's poem, The Charge of the light brigade relative to the Battle of Balaclava in 1854 during the Crimean War.
Find the cover of this single painted by Derek Riggs on this official flag Iron Maiden - The Trooper.
Eddie as a warrior in the battlefield, red costume, bloody sword and tattered United Kingdom flag in hands.