I'd argue that it's because metal music and even rock music focuses more on instruments rather than on lyrics, because of that you can generate fans from all over the world who have no idea how to speak or understand your language but still have a great time because you don't necessarily need to focus on the lyrics like in pop music you can rock out to the guitars, drums, base etc. That's why metal is so world wide compared to other genres.

We take money with everything in my neighborhood to buy the cd to everyone listen.. We are the best..

You can give all the air play you want to big hair bands, but at the end of the day Iron Maiden always made music about things with substance.... in other words they don't SUCK..... big hair bands forgotten, Maiden still around because of it!!!!

I'd say 99.9% of people got into metal through either seeing album art in a shop or heard someone else playing it on a tape/cd/whatever

Real bands make great music it speaks for itself.

Looks Great imo

Not too common among short haired rock icons, I would love to see Hetfield growing out his...

Look so cool.

Mix6809 I made the same remark to my bro when i saw Maiden live at the O2 in August, obviously even longer now, should dye it though imo

looks better now then when he was younger

Jayson Dudley same here :)

Pretty much the entire band is that

Chuck is a looser Bruce is not

joseph malena so when Bruce Dickinson screams, everyone goes deaf 😂

@@BoogieMan568 A looser? What does Chuck let loose other than roundhouse kicks? Bruce lets loose on stage remember.

Except that Chuck Norris has the twisted politics of a delusional far-right winger. Bruce is an intelligent, thoughtful, talented, and kind-hearted man. So no, Bruce is not the metal version of Chuck. Bruce Dickinson is in a class all by himself; he is inimitable and incomparable.

Insane charisma and great personality. I honestly don't even like his style of singing quite that much, just not my taste, but he has immense charisma. Wonderful, and multi-faceted talents. He's lived an incredible life.

He's British, that's why.

Well I'm bold at 36, and say, wow, he looks so great

Implants

Phillip Fry no Philip - his hair has always been thick. His hair is quite real, the evidence has been in front of our eyes without being hidden once. Some people are just lucky - check your jealousy!

AbigailMelissa1777 same

Lol, It looks natural for sure. But there is probably a little work done too, especially at that age and after his illness.

He owns the plane so yea :)

Ken Havens They leased the 747 from Air Atlanta. Most airlines don’t allow long hair. The airline I work for being one of them. 😞

Do they make women pilots cut their hair?

many airlines won't allow it, some do in a pony tail.

I could listen to Nicko 24/7

Not "one of" but THE greatest frontman and singer ever!!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

nobody cares

@@khav11 about you? I agree.

Parenting done RIGHT! I’m a grandpa. I raised my Daughter on Slayer and Megadeth. She was visiting with her son. Him and his friend (they are 3) Were revved up as kids should be. I put on some ABORTED and the kids went silent and stared headbanging. That’s a win 😁

Grigori Rasputin1990 you do 😂

​@@khav11 No need for that. And speaking for myself I find a little personal comment that's related to the subject at hand, interesting. If you don't... just keep your mouth shut and move on, simple.

Same here, I managed to become dad to a boy born 060606, whose favourite song is of course Number of Beast.

His name is Dave! NOT Andy!

Agreed

Replace Metallica with Motorhead and uve got it right.

@@mattbarbarich3295 Get out of here, dummy. No way no how.

@@markuse3472 how yeah! go and have a listen to "Ace of Spades" or "No Sleep til Hammersmith"or "Overkill" albums and then you'll agree. At that time Metallica weren't even around or playing ( badlly) other people's songs in a garage.

@@mattbarbarich3295 I've heard it all. Move on.

Yeah, and the great thing is that he probably feels similar devotion to you, as a fan.... Well, that is, as long as you are WAY younger than 50 or 60. As long as you are 13 to 25, you can probably count on it! If you are older than 40 or 50, then obviously he doesn't have devotion to you(or me) anymore. This is at least the 2nd interview where he has made that crystal clear......

@@patrickmcleod111 You really should take a joke. He is 60 himself, so he feels he can make fun of his own generation. Taking something like that personally means you need to grow thicker skin.

Hats off to Bruce!! he does not.act his age !! He is.a big kid.at.heart he is funny.and very whitty you are young as.you feel am almost.fifty six my birthday is.june 18th iwas born in 1964 and I don't act like an old foggy so there you.go mates and cheers to.all of you go Bruce and.iron maiden!!! You guys are fantastic beautiful.human beings!! We love you !! All the best to Bruce and the band!!! You guys rock up the irons from a die hard mega manic iron maiden fan from the USA peace and love to everyone and to iron maiden!!! Maiden manic🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Taste sugar.

I was there. Stinking hot!

u r freaking kidding me? id die for that

Love Dr Who up the irons.

@@scottkeppler6935 Love me some Classic Who. Can't wait to catch a Maiden show again next year!

I was quite surprised to see that too

close second is Christopher Lee

@@poketube9245 I completely agree

@i'm only here for the beer metal has so many great vocalists Bruce is definitely up there, great to watch live but my favourite would have to be Ronnie James Dio

@i'm only here for the beer I was just listening to some Queens Reich with Jeof Tate, another great vocalists that I would put up there with the greatest, judus priest, and I think Ann Wilson from heart would be the best female vocalist In my opinion anyway, that's coming from a Drummer from the Gold coast Australia and I'm a proud Aussie to. 🤘

DiAnno was ....eh. NOT a great vokalist...

@@nengstro Yeah. Di'Anno was an alright vocalist. But Bruce Dickinson is the greatest vocalist of all time!!!

What about Janick? Does he not rate a mention also?

Plus the fact that tix went on sale, months before this interview, for the 2019 tour.

Uncle John is a great man!

I was 14 years old one day when I turned on the radio and started fumbling around with the radio dial and I happened upon a station in Toronto Canada when I caught the tail end of the Intro to what I didn't know what Number of the Beast. After the Intro, there was a brief silence and out of nowhere, the most amazing guitar riff started and at that point, I was mesmerized....it's like my soul just froze listening to Dave Murray's starting riff. I listened to the whole song and after that, they never mentioned the name of the song and for the next three weeks, I kept on going back trying to catch the name of the song. They DJ finally stated that the next song was Number of the Beast and when the song started....I knew I had it. I am 49 years old now and I've been to five Maiden concerts and I just recently happened upon all of Bruce's solo albums in one visit. Spent a hundred bucks on all his solo albums and I have all of Maidens albums from the days of their first release. Maiden fan in life.....Maiden fan in death.

My first Maiden concert was killers with Paul Di'Anno on vocals. Awesome show, different style of music..

@@Terk131 I like both albums from the D'ianno era, and I hate the fact that I was too young to see Maiden in those days, but I think Dickinson is a much better vocalist. Not to mention poor Blayze. Everyone hated that era, but I didn't mind it. Blayze kept Maiden going while Bruce was gone.

Which tour?

Bruce doesn't sing either of those songs

He was employed as an airline pilot while with iron maiden. He said he would go on unpaid leave when on tour and worked when he wasn't rocking out! Truly an incredible man!

And one of his kids turns up in it with him ..Good film ..and even better Album ...

Accident Of Birth *_and_* Chemical Wedding.....having Adrian on those two albums elevated them from great to amazing.

@@MichaelBradley1967 No argument there 👍

Chemical wedding in my opinion is a masterpiece

was the film about aliester crowley practitioner of the occult

I'd say it's a toss up between Bruce and Ronnie James Dio...!!!

Easy there...

Agree with all of these vocalists being the best but you left out Geoff Tate !

Yeah. Bruce Dickinson is the best vocalist in the world! 🤘🤘

@@thewildbruce5612 You've clearly forgotten David Coverdale and Ian Gillan me thinks 🤔