Emily Kolltveit was a young teen drama student when she discovered Iron Maiden - and it almost came via a true baptism of fire. "When I was a teenager, I moved to London and was studying to go into the performing arts," she tells us. "There was a famous magician at the time called Simon Drake - his magic was sawing people in half, chopping people’s heads off, pretty gory stuff.
"He was doing a TV special with Iron Maiden, which would actually be Bruce Dickinson’s last show with them before he left the band, and he needed a magician’s assistant. He was a friend of my parents, so he asked me if I could be one of the assistants. In the end I couldn’t do it because I was a minor, but that’s really how I got to know their music."
