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“Absolutely mind-blowing”: Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith rips through the blues on a ‘55 Gibson Les Paul Custom previously owned by Paul Kossoff and Eric Clapton

The early-years Black Beauty was reportedly Kossoff's first “real” guitar, and paved the way for the many Burst LPs that the Free great later became synonymous with

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“My being fired was premature… We’d wrapped pre-production on Killers but I never got the chance to record”: Meet Dennis Stratton, the man who brought harmony guitars to Iron Maiden

Armed with a Les Paul Custom copy and an obscenely heavy old combo amp, Stratton only discovered metal when he joined the future giants – and left them the legacy of harmony guitar attack

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“It’s great when stuff like that breaks through”: Bruce Dickinson explains why he loves one of nu metal’s biggest, most “eccentric” bands

The Iron Maiden frontman expresses his admiration for one of the weirdest, yet most successful, metal bands of all time

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Van Halen, Metallica, SRV, Iron Maiden, Rush, Dio, Yngwie, Vai and the greatest guitar albums of 1984 – only in the new Guitar World

Featuring new interviews with Ace Frehley, Alex Lifeson, Adrian Smith, Adrian Belew, Earl Slick, Mike Ness, Steve Vai, Vicki Peterson, Vivian Campbell, Yngwie Malmsteen and more

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“It was all a bit Jethro Tull-y and witchy-woo”: the iconic Bruce Dickinson solo song that began life as an idea for an ‘acoustic’ Iron Maiden album that was never made

How a rejected Iron Maiden song written in the mid-80s became a Bruce Dickinson classic almost 10 years later

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“That song really affects people. It affects me.” Bruce Dickinson names the greatest song he’s ever written – and, no, it’s not an Iron Maiden track

“It works and it means something, but I don’t know what it is,” Bruce Dickinson says of (he believes) the best song he’s ever written

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The 8 songs Iron Maiden have played live the least

If you’ve seen The Beast perform any of these rarities at a show, you’re in a very exclusive club

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Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project Debuts On Billboard Charts

Bruce Dickinson's latest solo album, The Mandrake Project, showcases his enduring appeal and success in the music industry with impressive chart debuts and...

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“Why did you let Some Kind Of Monster come out?” What happened when Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson interviewed Metallica’s Lars Ulrich

In 2008, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich swung by Bruce Dickinson’s radio show to promote Death Magnetic and sling some mud at the St Anger era

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“It might be significant that my two favourite pieces of music of all time are Supper’s Ready and Thick As A Brick”: What Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris learned from prog

The guiding light of NWOBHM geeks out on Peter Gabriel leaving Genesis, covering Jethro Tull but not wanting to meet Ian Anderson, the length of ELP solos, his struggle to get into Marillion and more

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The rarest and most expensive records by 10 major rock bands

Own one of these rarities from Led Zeppelin, Queen, Pink Floyd, AC/DC and more? You could be sitting on a goldmine

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Mission From ’Arry: How Iron Maiden turned a sweary argument into the funniest metal “song” ever

Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris and drummer Nicko McBrain had a farcical falling out during a 1983 tour. When they found out Bruce Dickinson recorded it, they decided it’d fit perfectly onto 2 Minutes To Midnight’s b-side.

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Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris wants to write an autobiography: “It’s just a question of time.”

Iron Maiden’s bassist and founder would love to write a book – he just needs to sit still for five minutes first

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"My business is to create. It’s what I do." How Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson struck out on his own, got weirder than ever and created some of the boldest music of his career, over 50 years in.

Bruce Dickinson has finally dived into the next chapter of his solo career - and it sees him in as creative and determined form as ever

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The stories behind Bruce Dickinson's new album The Mandrake Project

Bored vampires, inspirational graveyards and Pulp Fiction moments: these are the stories behind every song on Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project

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10 classic metal albums that should be played live in full (but haven’t yet)

From Metallica’s …And Justice For All to Limp Bizkit’s Significant Other, these masterpieces are so good that live crowds need to hear them in their entirety

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"When we first started, he did not want to sound like Iron Maiden": Roy Z on his three-decade creative partnership with Bruce Dickinson

Producer and guitarist Roy Z explains how Bruce Dickinson's solo material has evolved in the past 31 years

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From lonely female vampires who long for death to a reworking of an Iron Maiden classic, The Mandrake Project proves that Bruce Dickinson really can do anything

The Mandrake Project is a bold return for Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson

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Demon bikers, resurrections and ritual sex magic: Bruce Dickinson takes us behind the scenes for The Mandrake Project. "We're going full Hammer Horror"

Between Iron Maiden albums, tours, getting his pilot's license and beating throat cancer, it's been a long road for Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project, but it's all proved worth it for one of the most ambitious multi-media releases of 2024

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Slayer, Slipknot, Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe and many more confirmed for massive Aftershock lineup

Organisers are calling Aftershock 2024 "the largest rock and metal festival ever put together in California"

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"But oh my God, he's just awesome. Power, resonance, tone... fabulous": Bruce Dickinson names some of his favourite singers

Iron Maiden man Bruce Dickinson talks about his favourite vocalists in the lead-up to the release of new solo album The Mandrake Project

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"The Mandrake Project flies by but still feels like an epic journey": Bruce Dickinson's first solo album in almost 20 years is a resounding triumph

The Mandrake Project sees Bruce Dickinson return to solo output almost 20 years after A Tyranny Of Souls

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"It's not over": Bruce Dickinson is ready to start writing again for the follow up to his forthcoming new solo album The Mandrake Project, says he "already has 10 or 12 different ideas for it"

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is a busy man, and is already keen to start work on his next project

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“It’s amazing that this was recorded!” Listen to the only time Iron Maiden have ever performed 80s classic The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner live

Despite it being a fan favourite on Somewhere In Time, Iron Maiden have only played The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner to one very lucky audience in 1986

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10 heavy metal bands that wouldn’t be the same without Dune

From Iron Maiden to Sleep, many metal bands have taken Frank Herbert’s psychedelic sci-fi saga to heart

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