The first solo is played by Janick Gers, and the second one is played by Dave Murray. The guitar solos are very fiery, making use of artificial harmonics, sweep picking, tapping and wild bends. It features a common pop-rock song structure with intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, verse and ending with another chorus. The song is atypical for the band standards, being short and straight. This is one of the very few Iron Maiden songs with profanity in the lyrics (for example, " Flies around shit/bees around honey" and " I've lived in filth/I've lived in sin/and I still smell cleaner than the shit you're in"), which is replaced by gunshot sounds in censored versions.
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The song deals with the many televangelist scandals that took place in the United States in the late 1980s, including mentions of "Jimmy the Reptile" (a reference to Jimmy Swaggart), "The TV Queen" (a possible reference to Tammy Faye Bakker), Noah, and "plenty of bad preachers for the Devil to stoke." Contrary to what some believe, however, this song is not aimed at the Christian religion itself, but rather the people that abuse it to make gains for themselves.
It was released just weeks before the album, No Prayer for the Dying, and climbed to number three on the UK Singles Chart. It is the first single release to feature guitarist Janick Gers, who joined the band in mid-1990. " Holy Smoke" is a song by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
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