The legendary metal singer on fearing he’d never sing again, the band’s new warts-and-all film, and experiencing a hard-rock version of Beatlemania
Iron Maiden with Bruce Dickinson (front centre) at a gig in 1983. Photo: Ross Halfin
There is a moment, deep into a new feature length documentary on Iron Maiden, which shows how huge they were on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
It was 1984, and the band – already among the giants of metal – were touring Poland. The scenes that greeted them everywhere they went were like a hard-rock version of Beatlemania.