Can I Play with Madness

"Can I Play with Madness"
Single by Iron Maiden
from the album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
B-side
  • "Black Bart Blues"
  • "Massacre"
Released20 March 1988
Recorded1987-88
GenreHeavy metal
Length3:31
LabelEMI
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Martin Birch
Iron Maiden singles chronology
"Stranger in a Strange Land"
(1986)
"Can I Play with Madness"
(1988)
"The Evil That Men Do"
(1988)
Music video
"Can I Play with Madness" on YouTube

"Can I Play with Madness" is a 1988 song by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden and is the lead single from their seventh studio album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. It went to number 3 in Ireland and the United Kingdom, number 4 in Norway, number 6 in the Netherlands and number 9 in New Zealand. The music video features Graham Chapman is his last appearance before his death.

Track listing

7" single
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Can I Play With Madness"   3:31
Side two
No. Title Length
1. "Black Bart Blues"   6:39
12" single
Side one
No. Title Length
1. "Can I Play With Madness"   3:31
Side two
No. Title Length
1. "Black Bart Blues"   6:39
2. "Massacre" (Thin Lizzy Cover) 2:54