IRON MAIDEN Frontman: 'We Are The Last Eccentric Bastion Of English Music'

April 25, 2007

IRON MAIDEN's official web site has been updated with scans of a six-page report that appeared in the U.K.'s Observer magazine focusing on MAIDEN's recent visit to India. Check it out at the following links:

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IRON MAIDEN's Indian concert took place on March 17 at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore.

IRON MAIDEN's last album, "A Matter of Life and Death", was hugely popular and successful in India, reaching the No. 2 position on the Indian chart.

Speaking to Observer, MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson reflected on the question of age and how long the band can keep touring. "I think we've achieved a kind of life-rock'n'roll balance," he said. "We have other things to do, and that has been to our benefit and the benefit of our longevity." But, he said, he had met a rugby international who had told him he had "exactly 17 international games left in him," and, "I'm intrigued by someone who can gauge it like that. There is nothing so physical as a MAIDEN show. I need to bounce off the walls and rattle my cage. Yes, I probably could stand around and sing, but if I did, it wouldn't be MAIDEN. You see, I never wanted to be famous, I always only wanted to be IRON MAIDEN. We are the last eccentric bastion of English music, just needing to shove this down your throat. And you can't deliver that every night forever."

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