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“My being fired was premature… We’d wrapped pre-production on Killers but I never got the chance to record”: Meet Dennis Stratton, the man who brought harmony guitars to Iron Maiden

Armed with a Les Paul Custom copy and an obscenely heavy old combo amp, Stratton only discovered metal when he joined the future giants – and left them the legacy of harmony guitar attack

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“It’s great when stuff like that breaks through”: Bruce Dickinson explains why he loves one of nu metal’s biggest, most “eccentric” bands

The Iron Maiden frontman expresses his admiration for one of the weirdest, yet most successful, metal bands of all time

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“It was all a bit Jethro Tull-y and witchy-woo”: the iconic Bruce Dickinson solo song that began life as an idea for an ‘acoustic’ Iron Maiden album that was never made

How a rejected Iron Maiden song written in the mid-80s became a Bruce Dickinson classic almost 10 years later

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The 8 songs Iron Maiden have played live the least

If you’ve seen The Beast perform any of these rarities at a show, you’re in a very exclusive club

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“Why did you let Some Kind Of Monster come out?” What happened when Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson interviewed Metallica’s Lars Ulrich

In 2008, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich swung by Bruce Dickinson’s radio show to promote Death Magnetic and sling some mud at the St Anger era

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“It might be significant that my two favourite pieces of music of all time are Supper’s Ready and Thick As A Brick”: What Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris learned from prog

The guiding light of NWOBHM geeks out on Peter Gabriel leaving Genesis, covering Jethro Tull but not wanting to meet Ian Anderson, the length of ELP solos, his struggle to get into Marillion and more

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Mission From ’Arry: How Iron Maiden turned a sweary argument into the funniest metal “song” ever

Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris and drummer Nicko McBrain had a farcical falling out during a 1983 tour. When they found out Bruce Dickinson recorded it, they decided it’d fit perfectly onto 2 Minutes To Midnight’s b-side.

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Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris wants to write an autobiography: “It’s just a question of time.”

Iron Maiden’s bassist and founder would love to write a book – he just needs to sit still for five minutes first

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"My business is to create. It’s what I do." How Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson struck out on his own, got weirder than ever and created some of the boldest music of his career, over 50 years in.

Bruce Dickinson has finally dived into the next chapter of his solo career - and it sees him in as creative and determined form as ever

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"When we first started, he did not want to sound like Iron Maiden": Roy Z on his three-decade creative partnership with Bruce Dickinson

Producer and guitarist Roy Z explains how Bruce Dickinson's solo material has evolved in the past 31 years

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From lonely female vampires who long for death to a reworking of an Iron Maiden classic, The Mandrake Project proves that Bruce Dickinson really can do anything

The Mandrake Project is a bold return for Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson

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Demon bikers, resurrections and ritual sex magic: Bruce Dickinson takes us behind the scenes for The Mandrake Project. "We're going full Hammer Horror"

Between Iron Maiden albums, tours, getting his pilot's license and beating throat cancer, it's been a long road for Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project, but it's all proved worth it for one of the most ambitious multi-media releases of 2024

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"The Mandrake Project flies by but still feels like an epic journey": Bruce Dickinson's first solo album in almost 20 years is a resounding triumph

The Mandrake Project sees Bruce Dickinson return to solo output almost 20 years after A Tyranny Of Souls

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"It's not over": Bruce Dickinson is ready to start writing again for the follow up to his forthcoming new solo album The Mandrake Project, says he "already has 10 or 12 different ideas for it"

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is a busy man, and is already keen to start work on his next project

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“It’s amazing that this was recorded!” Listen to the only time Iron Maiden have ever performed 80s classic The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner live

Despite it being a fan favourite on Somewhere In Time, Iron Maiden have only played The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner to one very lucky audience in 1986

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"As long as you can talk, you have a voice": An epic Bruce Dickinson interview

Bruce Dickinson fronts the UK’s most successful heavy metal band, holds a commercial pilot’s licence, releases solo albums, write novels and screenplays, and more. A full life? Not half

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“That activity that a very, very small minority of people do is so selfish and so disturbing”: Bruce Dickinson admits he “lost his temper” when a fan lit a flare at an Iron Maiden show in 2022

The Iron Maiden singer admonished and swore at a fan for igniting a flare during a performance of The Number Of The Beast in Greece

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"It is so dark...it's not accessible like some of the other Maiden albums." Ex-Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley explains why he feels many fans didn't warm up to their divisive The X Factor album

Is The X Factor Iron Maiden's most underrated record?

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The 50 metal albums you need to hear in 2024

From returning icons to underground heroes and metal's next generation, these are the albums you should be excited about this year

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"If you were after a girlfriend, by the time you’ve got ten minutes into A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers she’s usually jumped out the window." Bruce Dickinson on his prog heroes

Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson's 10-song solo album The Mandrake Project will be released on March 1

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The 10 best Bruce Dickinson solo songs

As we await the arrival of The Mandrake Project, get caught up on the greatest standalone moments from Iron Maiden’s Air-Raid Siren

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"It’s not that Maiden albums aren’t fun, but we don’t get to play like children." Bruce Dickinson is on the cover of the new Metal Hammer

The Iron Maiden frontman reveals the secrets of his new solo album and comic series – The Mandrake Project

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The 10 best 21st-century Iron Maiden songs

We all love the ’80s classics, but these later Maiden jams still show The Beast at their best

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“Headbanging is more fun than going through a windshield!” Watch Iron Maiden star in the bizarre seatbelt safety advert from 1991 that almost got them a meeting with the President Of The United States

Iron Maiden appeared in a Crash Test Dummies commercial in the early ’90s, and Bruce Dickinson almost met the President because of it

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“It’s a big, festering, open sewer – it’s nothing to do with music”: Watch Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson eviscerate hair metal in a 1990 interview

Iron Maiden’s frontman didn’t mince words when talking about the hedonism of certain ’80s metal bands

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