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Iron Maiden are funny aren’t they? They’re real ale metal. It’s all little England flirting with Satan rock ‘n’ roll. There’s a place for it, obviously, but did you know just how much lead singer Bruce Dickinson cares about asthma?

Now, for the uninitiated, Brucie Baby is the kind of rock ‘n’ roller that a wealthy farmer would probably like if they met at a garden party. That’s because Bruce supported Brexit, despite living in France and then complaining about how British musicians couldn’t travel freely through Europe like they did pre-Brexit. Classic Bruce.

Of course, he’s since said that this is all fine and we’re allowed to have a difference of opinion. He is of course, absolutely correct. However, taking the piss out of Iron Maiden’s lead singer isn’t ‘political point scoring’, as he’s intimated in the past – it is rinsing someone because it’s funny. So with that in mind, let’s look at some really rock ‘n’ roll shit that’s gone down with our Brucie D.

At an Iron Maiden show in Athens a couple of years ago, one of the fans attending got a flare out. Flares are hot stuff right now, making an appearance at football games and outdoor shows the world over. They look cool, even if they stink a bit. Our Bruce doesn’t like flares though, not one bit.

Bruce lost the bap a bit, and called the fan in question “a fucking cocksucker”, because obviously, sucking cock is bad. However, you might assume that the fan in question chose to whip a flare our during ‘Number of the Beast’ because Brucie Baby was about to sing this section of the song…

Six six six, the number of the beast
Hell and fire was spawned to be released

Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised
As they start to cry, hands held to the sky
In the night, the fires are burning bright
The ritual has begun, Satan’s work is done

However, B Dickie changed the lyrics, going from “what did I see?” to “a cunt with a fucking flare!” That’s quite funny, we’ll give him that. However, he wasn’t done, and went into a rant: “The cunt with the fucking flare – I’ve gotta sing up here! You fucking cocksucker! You Greek cunt! All right. I’ve gotta fucking sing. All right, fuck you!”

Wanna see it for yourself?

Dickinson recently looked back on this incident: “Oh, the guy swinging his thing and everything else. You know what? I probably got his nationality wrong,” he laughed. I just lost my temper.”

“That activity that a very, very small minority of people do is so selfish and so disturbing. They think it’s really cool. Actually, it’s not about the band. It’s not about the audience. It’s about them drawing attention only to themselves and damaging the people around them who have this thing, this extremely toxic thing flying around.”

ROCK ‘N’ ROLLLLLLL!

“Of course, if you happen to be asthmatic, if you haven’t been having any lung conditions, ‘Oh, we don’t care about them. We’ll just fill the place with smoke, ’cause it makes me feel important,’ is their attitude. It just annoys the hell out of me. Anyway, yeah, I lost my temper. I shouldn’t have called him a Greek cunt; I should have just called him a c**t.”

WAHOO! GIMME DANGER!