Former HELLOWEEN Singer Says There's No Truth To Rumor He Was Asked To Join IRON MAIDEN

March 21, 2009

During a recent interview with German magazine Rock Hard, former HELLOWEEN singer Michael Kiske was asked if there was any truth to the rumor that he was asked to join IRON MAIDEN after Bruce Dickinson left the group back in the early 1990s. "The rumor was complete false!" Kiske said. "Nobody asked me to join them. I only heard that on TV and I didn't know anything about it. I think this rumor came from an interview where Steve Harris (IRON MAIDEN bassist) mentioned to a French magazine that he could imagine only three singers in IRON MAIDEN and I was one of them. They [MAIDEN] also had the same management [as HELLOWEEN]. That's all".

Rock Hard chief editor Götz Kühnemund's entire interview with Kiske, which was filmed in Hamburg at the Headbanger's Ballroom bar, was made available on Rock Guerrilla TV and was published in issue 263 of Rock Hard magazine. It can be viewed in four parts below (Note: The interview was conducted in German).

Michael Kiske is featured on PLACE VENDOME's second album, "Streets Of Fire", which was released on February 20 via Frontiers Records. He can also be heard singing two tracks on Italian band TRICK OR TREAT's new CD, "Tin Soldiers", which will be released in Japan on April 22 through King Records.

(Thanks: MichaelKiske.net)

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