IRON MAIDEN - Run to the Hills video

about Run to the Hills: Run to the Hills was Iron Maiden's first song with a brand new vocalist Bruce Dickinson. Everything is else is history :)

Music video for "Run to the Hills" features band performing and scenes from the old (1923) James Parrott film "Uncovered Wagon".

Song speaks from two point of views: those of the Indians and those of the conquerers.

From the lyrics we can see that it mainly focuses on American soldiers destroying native Indians, hence the reference "Soldier blue on the barren wastes".
And we know that British were red (redcoats).

Thus the song mainly tells a story of American soldiers driving Inidans of their land, despites the fact that British promised Indians they could keep it.

Soldier "Blue" referees to the uniform color, although American soldiers from that time also wore Green, but that was only after American-Spanish war started.

Although sympathetic for the natives, it should be noted that song tells a tale from two perspectives - for example in the line "chasing the red skins back to their holes". This is in place mainly to create a vivid image of the era, Maiden had no intentions of glorifying the atrocities against the native Americans.

The song "Run to the Hills" became one of the best known Iron Maiden songs and had since been played on virtually every Iron Maiden show, usually as the grande finale.

The intro riff is also very famous, performed by a rather complicated technique of bending two guitar strings at once, while also keeping the rhythm guitar in harmonics.