It was a tough job. When Blaze Bayley succeeded Bruce Dickinson as the singer in Iron Maiden in 1994, he was replacing the irreplaceable.
It wasn’t just that Dickinson was the best metal singer of his generation. It was what Maiden had created with Bruce – a series of legendary albums, from The Number Of The Beast to Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son – that had made them one of the biggest and greatest metal bands of all time.
