Why don SANCTUARY and TWILIGHT ZONE appear on the UK/European album pressings?
“Sanctuary” first appeared on the Metal For Muthas with “Wrathchild.” This is why neither one made it on the first album. I guess by the time the single was issued Tony Parsons was no longer a member of the band so they redid it with Dennis. “Wrathchild” was Adrian Smith’s audition piece, and I guess he must have done such a great job with it that they decided to stick that onto the next single. Already “Running Free” was a single, but only in Europe and I think this single was performed by the quartet lineup Di’anno / Murray / Harris / Sampson, which would make sense that “Sanctuary” would be the first thing done by the lineup that would appear on the album, but since by now there were two versions of “Sanctuary floating about in UK but never heard in USA, they stick on the new version of “Sanctuary” which has the same lineup as the rest of the album (in my opinion though it’s the inferior version. Stratton’s solos tended to sound more or less the same from song to song). “Twilight Zo
