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Steve Harris reveals the song he wants to bring back to Iron Maiden’s setlist: “It’s difficult to do a set from any part of our career and not miss things out”

The second European leg of the band’s 50th-anniversary tour kicks off in the spring

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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

Sick of being known as ‘the devil-worshipping band’, the heavy metal legends wrote a sweeping track about a Romantic poem. They had no idea it’d be 13 minutes long, though.

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"One bloke was on Antiques Roadshow saying he was our first drummer. Absolute rubbish!" Steve Harris sets the record straight about Christmas Day, Paul Di'Anno and Iron Maiden's early years

As Iron Maiden’s driving force, Steve Harris has steered the band from pub gigs and demos to the stadiums and multi-million-selling albums

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“I had a thought: ‘I wonder if she could foresee her own death?’ I went to Bruce and he said, ‘Yeah, it’s a great idea!’”: How a dead psychic and singer with a point to prove inspired Iron Maiden to make one of the maddest concept albums of the 80s

Maiden’s seventh album is the ultimate fan favourite

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"It was a time of turmoil. Writers had it in for us: 'Oh my God, haven’t you died yet? Don’t you know, grunge is here!'" The story behind the underrated Iron Maiden classic that helped keep them alive in the 90s

Iron Maiden looked in real trouble after Bruce Dickinson left. They regrouped, brought in a new singer and produced some of their darkest material

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“We’ll see”: We asked Steve Harris if Iron Maiden will do their own blockbuster retirement show like Black Sabbath, and he didn’t rule it out

Will Iron Maiden bow out with an event as huge as this summer’s Back To The Beginning? Their founding bassist knows that people want it to happen

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“A warning shot to the competition and a reminder that Fender is still very much a force in the amp modeler market”: All the guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including a new digital era for EVH

A landmark update for the Tone Master Pro, a new digital 5150III combo, and a signature capsule for Iron Maiden all landed this week

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“He proved to me long ago that Fender belongs in the world of heavy metal”: Fender honors Iron Maiden’s 50th Anniversary with a stable of limited signatures for Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Janick Gers and Steve Harris

The UK metal titans’ triple guitar team and bassist have all been honored with a range of specially tailored signatures

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Fender and Jackson celebrate 50 years of Iron Maiden with limited run signature models – including a Masterbuilt Dave Murray Strat that’ll leave you losfer words

Choose your fighter, Maiden fans, with four variations on the archetypical Superstrat including a Custom Shop doozy... And it is foot on the monitor time with that Harris P-Bass

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"I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure." Steve Harris had his doubts over Bruce Dickinson's 1999 return to Iron Maiden

How different things could have been if Steve Harris had blocked Bruce Dickinson's Iron Maiden comeback

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“When Bruce came back I wasn’t 100% sure of the reasons behind it. I was like, ‘Well, okay, let’s see.’ I’ll be honest – I wasn’t sure”: How Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris made his peace with singer Bruce Dickinson

“Bruce is unusual – which is probably what makes him so good”

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“There was no way we were gonna put out the full hour-and-a-half video, because it would have been a rip-off”: The story of the great Iron Maiden live album that was lost for 20 years

Beast Over Hammersmith shows Iron Maiden in thunderous form at the height of their success. This is why it has never been seen in full.

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“I said, ‘Before we start, you know that if I audition I’ll get the gig. But be warned – I’m gonna be a pain in the arse!’”: Bruce Dickinson recalls his audition for Iron Maiden – and his crazy times with his previous band

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Iron Maiden team up with West Ham United for joint 50th anniversary football jersey

New Iron Maiden/West Ham collab celebrates band's 50th year and 50th anniversary of football club's 1975 FA Cup win

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Building the Beast: Iron Maiden's Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson on battles, breakthroughs and the birth of a legend – only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Ace Frehley, Ian Gillan, Judas Priest, Wolfgang Van Halen, Whiskey Myers, The Cramps, Stephen Dale Petit, Massive Wagons, Solstice, Steve Morse and more

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“I told him, ‘This is only a small town, we don’t have the infrastructure for an artist like you!’”: Why Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris was turned down after asking to play power metal stars Sabaton’s hometown festival

In 2017, Steve Harris’ British Lion performed at Sabaton Open Air – but not without the Maiden man convincing the band in charge first

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“There was a real sense of excitement. We had a point to prove: this is the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world." How Iron Maiden went from East End outcasts to the world's most loved heavy metal band

Iron Maiden legends Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris look back at 50 years of heavy metal history

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"Part supernatural, part primal, part aggressive adolescent, he’s a super anti-hero." How Iron Maiden's Eddie went from a blood-spewing mask on a drumkit to metal's most iconic mascot

An oral history of Iron Maiden's iconic Eddie the 'Ed by those who know him best

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“Let me just put this record on and clear the room! Or play it to a girlfriend and then wonder why she threw herself out the window”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson on the cult prog rock mavericks who inspired him – but were too out-there to be successful

They played a gig at Bruce Dickinson’s school when he was 15 years old

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I'm an Iron Maiden fanatic and decided to rank every single one of their live albums from worst to best

Iron Maiden are the undisputed heavy metal daddies of live albums. Here's every one they've released so far, in reverse order of excellence

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Iron Maiden thought about retiring after Nicko McBrain left touring lineup

The remaining Iron Maiden members considered calling it quits after Nicko McBrain was forced to retire from touring.

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"We had a decision to make as to whether we wanted to carry on or not": Steve Harris on Nicko McBrain's departure from Iron Maiden

Nicko McBrain announced his retirement from touring with Iron Maiden earlier this year

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“It reminded me of discovering Deep Purple when I was 15 years old, except updated. Everything was really pushing forwards”: Bruce Dickinson reveals the Pau Di’Anno song that convinced him to join Iron Maiden

The song that changed the course of Iron Maiden

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Nine classic deep cuts Iron Maiden need to dust off for their 2026 Run For Your Lives shows

Iron Maiden are returning to Europe for the second stint of their 50th-anniversary tour next year. These are the obscure tracks we’d love them to play.

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