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Bruce Dickinson says he wanted to front Iron Maiden from the first time he saw the band in action. In a recent interview with Record Collector, the vocalist said he’d already heard about Steve Harris’ group when Samson, his own outfit at the time, hired them as openers for the show at the Music Machine, London, in May 1979. “We were headlining because our management had bankrolled the gig and said, ‘We want the top slot’ – although we didn’t really deserve it,” Dickinson recalled. “That became obvious when Maiden came on, because the whole place was rammed. I’d heard rumors about how good they...
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Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson has proposed a simple solution the problem with music streaming, which is that Spotify pays artists a low rate and the company itself struggles to be profitable. Aside from singing in one of metal’s most legendary bands, Dickinson is an experienced businessman in and outside of music. He understands there are many factors to consider in establishing a viable business model that not only meets the demands of investors and top executives, but satisfies its consumers as well. In a new interview with Mexico’s ATMosferas Magazine, the Maiden frontman confronts Spo...
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Metal fans love band merch, but which band’s merch do they spend the most money on each year? That’s one of the revelations in a recent study by Custom Ink delving into the merch-buying preferences of music fans. For the survey, Custom Ink polled 1,000 American music listeners, with 49 percent men, 50 percent women and one percent non-binary filling out the research pool. Of these participants, nine percent were baby boomers, 27 percent were Gen X, 50 percent were millennials and 13 percent were Gen Z. Which Metal Bands’ Merch Do Fans Spend the Most Money on Each Year?The answer to that questi...
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Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson has named the best song he’s ever written. It’s a song from the ’90s and it’s not even one he wrote for Maiden. The answer came in a recent interview with Revolver, where he singles out an acoustic-driven ballad that appears on his sophomore solo album, 1994’s Balls to Picasso. “I would say ‘Tears of the Dragon’ ’cause I don’t know what it means,” Dickinson confesses, “But it means something. That song really affects people. It affects me.” The nearly six-and-half-minute album closer is Dickinson’s most popular solo song, by streaming metrics at least. It has...
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Here are the things we love most about Bruce Dickinson‘s new solo album The Mandrake Project. The nearly 20-year wait for the successor to 2005’s Tyranny of Souls is finally coming to an end, with 10 new tracks spanning just under 59 minutes. Musically, the record takes quite a lot of detours, but is still largely reflective of the metallic style that’s been in play since 1997’s Accident of Birth. In the works in earnest for about a decade, with some material here going back a quarter century, The Mandrake Project very much feels like the product of such a lengthy process. It’s some of Dickins...
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Bruce Dickinson has named the most challenging Iron Maiden song to sing live, noting that it is “equally” difficult to tackle this one now as it was in his mid-20s. The 65-year-old spoke with SongFacts, first providing a track-by-track breakdown of his new solo album, The Mandrake Project, which comes out March 1. The 10-track record has been in the works in earnest for about a decade, with some material even stretching back much further. The singles — “Afterglow of Ragnarok” and “Rain on the Graves” — showcase Dickinson’s seemingly ageless voice. The aforementioned interview later shifts to h...
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