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“If we’re stuck with stories about Satan, it’ll mean that people will never understand us”: How Iron Maiden pushed metal to its most colossal, then pushed a bit further, to make Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

The song was the centrepiece of Iron Maiden’s Eddfest set

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"You just hope it’s all going to work out. It usually does...but you never know!" Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson talk Eddfest, 50 years of heavy metal and whether we'll get a new album

Two-fisted flamethrowers, tough support acts, the late Paul Di’anno and the next Maiden album – Bruce and Steve reveal all

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“We were all young and naïve. He was just a waste of time. He just sat there with his feet up reading Country Life”: How Iron Maiden forged their debut album with a lazy producer, a dodgy mix and Paul Kossoff's ’57 Strat

’Maiden made a big splash with their 1980 debut. Steve Harris and Dave Murray explain how, against all odds they made a metal classic

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"Depression isn't the kind of thing that’ll just go away." Dream collabs with Lady Gaga and David Hasselhoff, Eurovision and touring with Iron Maiden: an interview with Lord Of The Lost's Chris Harms

They've played Eurovision, supported Iron Maiden and topped the charts: Lord Of The Lost aren't dialing back their ambitions

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"Knebworth, be on ya best behaviour!!" Iron Maiden announce plans to complete Run For Your Lives tour film at homecoming Eddfest spectacular

Iron Maiden's upcoming Eddfest show will now be captured for posterity

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"What's Number One at the moment? I couldn't tell you. It's meaningless. All I care about is what Iron Maiden are doing next week." Steve Harris, Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith look back on Iron Maiden's 50-year ride

As Iron Maiden's historic Eddfest show at Knebworth gets ever closer, the band look back over half a century of Monsters and Maiden

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“They were full of angst and venom”: Iron Maiden reveal the toughest support acts they’ve ever had to follow

Opening for the veteran show-stealers is a difficult job, but Guns N’ Roses and Southern rockers Blackfoot each brought their A-game

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“Steve Harris will tour and tour and tour and tour until he probably dies onstage”: Bruce Dickinson would rather Iron Maiden “do another album” than head back on the road right away

The metal legends are booked to play 91 gigs in 2026 alone

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“I’d put the headphones on and listen to heavy metal, and then I'd want to break down the door to get out on the pitch and go kill someone”: Former England legend Terry Butcher is a huge Iron Maiden fan and the original heavy metal footballer

Ex-England captain Terry Butcher on singing onstage with Iron Maiden, Steve Harris’ football skills and England’s chances in the World Cup

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"Steve Harris was a road sweeper when I met him." What it was like following metal icons Iron Maiden from their very first gig

One of Steve Harris's old workmates recalls following the band in their earliest years

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"Their fans live, breathe and die for them, and that is my dream." Why Lady Gaga loves Iron Maiden

Pop megastar Lady Gaga is a certified Iron Maiden fan - and the metal icons think pretty highly of her too!

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“We were in this pub and Paul Di’Anno pulled this young nurse. She invited us all to sleep on her floor”: How Iron Maiden made the scrappy four-track EP which launched their career

As the heavy metal juggernauts continue their 50th birthday celebrations, we look back on how The Soundhouse Tapes started it all

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"Eddfest could even become a festival that didn't have Iron Maiden in it, just bands in the same spirit." Bruce Dickinson says Iron Maiden's Knebworth party could continue without them

Iron Maiden's highly anticipated Eddfest event will take place in July - and the band are on the cover of the new issue of Classic Rock

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"Our casting team reached out to fans from all around the world. They provided the emotion, the soul and the humanity." Iron Maiden's creative director Ben Smallwood grew up around the band – and now he's helping tell their story

Iron Maiden's much-heralded Burning Ambition film will hit cinemas on May 7 - and the band are on the cover of the new issue of Classic Rock

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“Seeing Maiden live shows is an expression of joy, of pleasure, of commitment with music”: Javier Bardem reveals how Iron Maiden changed his life

The Dune, Skyfall and No Country For Old Men star appears in the British heavy metal band’s new documentary, Burning Ambition

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"I was grossly overconfident because I was 21 years old: ‘Of course I’m going to get the gig.'" Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson opens up on what it was like joining the metal legends just as they were blowing up

Bruce Dickinson joined Maiden at a crucial point in their career. We all know what happened next

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‘I nearly quit to become a fencing teacher’: Iron Maiden on 50 years of heavy metal, hard living – and hopeless communication skills

As a career-spanning documentary hits cinemas and the band eye two nights at Knebworth, they revisit their path from pubs to stadiums – but how did they get through their crisis-filled 1990s?

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"The fans always come first." Iron Maiden won't be attending their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Iron Maiden aren't snubbing the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, they just won't be there

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Iron Maiden announce cinema release for their career-spanning documentary Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition

Get ready for Eddie at a cinema near you this spring

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“The BBC showed one minute and 10 seconds of it!” Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter: How a banned, censored and divisive single became Iron Maiden’s only UK number one

Despite a BBC ban, winning a “Worst Original Song” award and being pulled from the band’s setlist, Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter remains one of Iron Maiden’s biggest tunes

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“I haven’t written anything on the new album. I started to write ‘very heavy metal’ things, but I ended up writing for bagpipes, folk things like Jethro Tull. Oh well – bang go my royalties!”: When Bruce Dickinson was Iron Maiden’s odd man out

“There was none of me on that record – I was just AWOL mentally”

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“It’s a story about a bloke who’s not sure whether he’s died and been reborn, or whether he’s just been dreaming. Kind of like a bad hangover!”: The Iron Maiden anthem inspired by near-death experiences

Plus: Bruce Dickinson on the epic Alexander The Great

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"They got all these Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne albums and burned them…then ran away because they were scared." Car crashes, Satanism and 28 Years Later: the story behind Iron Maiden's classic anthem The Number Of The Beast

From ominous omens to a horror film that got everyone talking, the legacy of The Number of The Beast is bigger than ever

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"We all had that feeling that nobody had ever heard anything like this before": How Iron Maiden got their man and made the album that sent them stratospheric

An exclusive extract from Iron Maiden – Infinite Dreams: The Official Visual History

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"It sounded like the way ice cream on a hot summer day tastes." How a Marquis de Sade biography, Willy Wonka's Oompa-Loompas and a bum note helped "a metal girl from Ohio" write a rock anthem that wowed Nirvana and changed Olivia Rodrigo's life

"We thought no-one would play it." The story behind one of the great '90s alt. rock singles, The Breeders' Cannonball

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