“The phone rang, it was Steve Harris: ‘Are you interested in joining Maiden?’”: this is what it’s like to audition to replace Bruce Dickinson in Iron Maiden, by three singers who went for the job

Iron Maiden line up in 1992.

When Bruce Dickinson quit Iron Maiden in 1993, he left some big shoes to fill. But not everybody was daunted by the prospect of replacing the singer in one of the world’s biggest heavy metal bands - several hopefuls threw their hats into the ring, including future Rainbow singer Doogie White, Threshold/Landmarq frontman Damian Wilson and Wolfsbane microphone-wrangler Blaze Bayley (who eventually got the job, of course). This is what it was like to be in the running for one of the biggest jobs in music.