“I said, Adrian, why aren't you singing in Iron Maiden? Be the singer!” Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham once encouraged Adrian Smith to return to Iron Maiden as the band's frontman

Steve Harris and Adrian Smith.

Thin Lizzy legend Scott Gorham has revealed that he encouraged Adrian Smith to rejoin Iron Maiden in 1997, suggesting that the guitarist could replace Blaze Bayley as the band's frontman.

Back in '97, the Californian guitarist guested on a song called I'm Alive on Welcome To The World, the second album from Smith's post-Iron Maiden project Psycho Motel, and in a new interview with eonmusic's Eamon O'Neill, Gorham admits that, at the time, he suggested to Smith that he should consider rejoining Maiden as their vocalist.