Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1957-01-01
- Works
- 42
Top works
- Alkaline Diet Cookbook for Newbies
- Exotic 30-Minutes Heart Healthy Cookbook
- Essential Instant Pot for Two Cookbook
- Miso Soup Cookbook for Beginners
- Cooking with Beans and Legumes for Beginners
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Film & TV
Acting · Hackney, London, England, UK
Adrian Frederick "H" Smith (born 27 February 1957) is an English musician, best known as one of the three guitarists in the heavy metal band, Iron Maiden, for whom he regularly writes and, along with bassist Steve Harris, performs live backing vocals on some songs. Growing up in Camden, London, Smith gained an interest in rock music at 15 and formed a friendship with future Iron Maiden…
Known for
- Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition — Self2026
- Di'Anno: Iron Maiden's Lost Singer — Self (archive footage)2025
- Iron Maiden - Hellfest 2023 — Guitar2023
- Iron Maiden: The Future Past in Amsterdam — Guitar2023
- Iron Maiden: The Book of Souls - Live Chapter — Guitars, Backing Vocals2017
- Iron Maiden: The Book of Souls - Live Chapter — Guitar2017
- Iron Maiden: The Book of Souls - Live at Wacken Open Air 2016 — Guitar/Backing Vocals2016
- Iron Maiden: [2016] New York, NY — Guitars2016
- Iron Maiden: Download Festival 2016 — Guitar2016
- Iron Maiden - Rock am Ring 2014 — Guitar/Backing Vocals2014
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Adrian Frederick "H" Smith (born 27 February 1957) is an English guitarist, best known as a member of British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, for whom he writes songs and performs live backing vocals on some tracks. Smith grew up in London and became interested in rock music at 15. He soon formed a friendship with future Iron Maiden guitarist Dave Murray, who inspired him to take up the guitar. After leaving school at 16, he formed a band called Urchin, which he led until their demise in 1980. <a
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 47,587x
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 41,793x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,272x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 33,274x
- GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers
· 2015 · cited 24,042x
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Key facts
- Born
- Adrian Frederick Smith , ( 1957-02-27 ) 27 February 1957 (age 69) , Hackney, London , England
- Genres
- Heavy metal progressive rock hard rock
- Occupations
- Musician songwriter
- Instruments
- Guitar vocals
- Years active
- 1972–present
- Labels
- DJM EMI Capitol Harvest Enigma Victor Sanctuary Raw Power Castle CMC Air Raid Columbia Portrait Parlophone Spinefarm BMG
- Website
- ironmaiden .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1957
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Frederick
- Family name
- Smith
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London Borough of Hackney
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- heavy metal music
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Adrian Frederick Smith (born 27 February 1957) is an English guitarist and singer best known as a member of heavy metal band Iron Maiden, for whom he also writes songs and performs backing vocals.
Smith grew up in London and became interested in rock music at 15. He soon formed a friendship with future Iron Maiden guitarist Dave Murray, who inspired him to take up the guitar. After leaving school at 16, he formed the band Urchin, which he led until their demise in 1980. He joined Iron Maiden in November 1980, replacing Dennis Stratton. Following a short-lived solo project called ASAP, he left Iron Maiden in 1990 and, after a year-long hiatus, formed the band The Untouchables which later became Psycho Motel.
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