Although women on top is my favourite sexual position, this post is not about sex. In fact, this post is about my previous post.

A couple of days ago I was watching a debate on TV and there were 3 people talking about being famous and successful. They compared football players to musicians.

Acording to them (and it's indeed a fact), football players, such as Kaka, Ronaldo or Ronaldinho Gaucho for example, are on their top form very early, way before they complete the age of 30. They become rich and famous in a day or two. And as fast as their careers achieve the top, it also declines within the blink of an eye. No matter how good the player is.

In the other hand, musicians take more time to establish their carreer and also to establish themselves in the media. And here, we're talking about talented musicians and not artists like the Menudos, Spice Girls, the BackStreet Boys or all those other products of the media. They are just made to have their 15 minutes of fame in order to make huge profits to the record companies. No wonder why they disappear after a couple of years.

When you are a talented musician you are arrive at the top very easily. The difficult thing is to stay on top as the years pass. If you are indeed good, you have your ups and downs, which is pretty normal, but you eventually find your way up to the top again. And within the years you mature, your music gets better, and so does your performances. So, acording to them you reach your top around the age of 50 or more.

Then I thought about Maiden, and it's true. They reached the top very early, on their third album in 83. They stayed on top till the early 90s and then they had their ups and downs for a few years until they started to recover their status in the begining of the new millenium. Now we are in 2007 and they achieved things they never thought they would in less than 4 months. For a band who never had the media support (mtv, radio stations, etc), only the support from their loyal fans, I can say they're now at their highest position in their carreer. This year they were invited to play in Bangalore, India (the first big international metal band to put their feet in that country) in front of dozens of thousands of fans. They were also the first international band ever to play in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. And they were also given a prime time spot on British TV to play live at the Abbey Road studios (as you can see on my previous post).

We don't know when they're going to stop, hopefully not so soon. It's very fun to watch this 50 year old blokes rocking around with so much energy. I bet a lot of boy bands around envy the energy these old guys have. The recipe for success is easy: you must love what you do and you must be very good at it.

As Bruce said: "If you think what you do really matters and if you are really proud of what you do, why would you cock it all up? People say they entered in a band because they wanted to get girls. You NEVER should want to enter in a band because of girls. You enter a band because you want to play music! I never understood the people who say they entered a band because they wanted to do drugs. If you want to do drugs, do it somewhere else. Don't come and mess up with my world, because what we do here is really important to us and it's really important to loads of kids who come to see us..."