Iron Maiden singer, Bruce Dickinson, seriously considered quitting the band in 2015 while he was being treated for throat cancer. Speaking with MusicRadar, Dickinson reveals that he would have left the band if he had been unable to sing with the same power and range as before.
Dickinson was diagnosed with throat cancer just as Maiden were completing the recording of their 2015 album, The Book Of Souls. And as he now recalls, he always felt confident that his treatment would be successful.
“I felt good,” he says. “I believed I was going to come through fairly strongly. It was going to be a hard ten months, but at the end of that, I thought – I hoped – I should be able to do what I’d done before. But if not, I was quite prepared to leave – because if you can’t sing like you should be able to sing, that’s it.”
He explains: “I would have wanted the band to carry on properly. But I would have offered to help them find another singer, because there are other people out there.”
Read more at MusicRadar.
Dickinson recently announced his first extensive North American solo tour in almost 30 years in support of his current studio album, The Mandrake Project. For “The Mandrake Project Live 2025” North American Tour, Bruce Dickinson reunites his 2024 touring lineup featuring Philip Naslund and Chris DeClercq on guitars, Dave Moreno on drums, Mistheria on keyboards and Tanya O’Callaghan on bass.
For ticket information, head here.
“The Mandrake Project Live 2025” North American Tour kicks off in Anaheim, CA. at The House of Blues on August 22 and takes the band across North America including shows in New York, Los Angeles, Texas, Florida and Canada, with festival appearances at Rocklahoma (OK) and Louder Than Life (KY) with more to be announced. The tour also includes a quick return to Brazil for the prestigious “The Town” Festival at the City of Light in Sao Paulo.
“We are thrilled to be able to take The Mandrake Project out for a proper tour of North America,” enthuses Bruce Dickinson. “Last year we did a couple of sold-out U.S. West Coast dates before heading to South America and the response was just incredible. This time we will add ‘Shadow of The Gods’ to the setlist for this incredible band to perform plus a few other gems so we are really looking forward to seeing our fans again all over the country and for a couple of shows up in Canada.”
The Mandrake Project immediately became a global hit, topping the albums charts In Germany and Sweden, as well as entering the Official Album Charts at #3 in the UK and hitting Top 5 on the Top Album Sales charts in the US.
Tour dates:
August
22 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
23 – Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
25 – Phoenix, AZ – Marquee Theatre
26 – Albuquerque, NM – Revel
28 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
29 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues
31 – Pryor, OK – Rocklahoma*
September
2 – New Orleans, LA – House of Blues
4 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Revolution
7 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – The Town*
10 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
11 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
13 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
14 – Silver Spring, MD – Fillmore Silver Spring
16 – Toronto, ON – History
18 – Montreal, QC – MTELUS
21 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life*
23 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore
25 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
27 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
28 – Minneapolis, MN – Uptown
30 – Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
October
5 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
Iron Maiden are gearing up for a milestone in their storied career with the “Run For Your Lives” world tour. Kicking off in May in Hungary, the trek will traverse Europe, with announced dates running through August. This tour will be the band’s first with new drummer, Simon Dawson, in place of recently retired Nicko McBrain.
Most dates for Iron Maiden’s “Run For Your Lives” tour are sold out. Remaining tickets are available here. Dates are listed below:
Tour dates:
May
27 – Budapest, Hungary – Budapest Aréna
28 – Budapest, Hungary – Budapest Aréna
31 – Prague, Czech Republic – Letnany Airport
June
1 – Bratislava, Slovakia – Tipos Arena
5 – Trondheim, Norway – Trondheim Rocks (Festival)
7 – Stavanger, Norway – Sr-bank Arena
9 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena
12 – Stockholm, Sweden – 3Arena
13 – Stockholm, Sweden – 3Arena
16 – Helsinki, Finland – Olympic Stadium
19 – Dessel, Belgium – Graspop Metal Meeting
21 – Birmingham, England – Utilita Arena
22 – Manchester, England – Co-Op Live
25 – Dublin, Ireland – Malahide Castle
28 – London, England – London Stadium
30 – Glasgow, Scotland – OVO Hydro
July
3 – Belfort, France – Eurockéennes Festival
5 – Madrid, Spain – Riyadh Air Metropolitano
6 – Lisbon, Portugal – Meo Arena
9 – Zurich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion
11 – Gelsenkirchen, Germany – Veltins-Arena
13 – Padova, Italy – Stadio Euganeo
15 – Bremen, Germany – Bürgerweide
17 – Vienna, Austria – Ernst Happel Stadium
19 – Paris, France – Paris La Défense Arena
20 – Paris, France – Paris La Défense Arena
23 – Arnhem, Netherlands – Gelredome
25 – Frankfurt, Germany – Deutsche Bank Park
26 – Stuttgart, Germany – Cannstatter Wasen
29 – Berlin, Germany – Waldbühne
30 – Berlin, Germany – Waldbühne
August
2 – Warsaw, Poland – PGE Narodowy
Thames & Hudson have announced the forthcoming publication of Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams – The Official Visual History, to be published globally in hardback in fall 2025. A magnificent visual celebration of the first 50 years of Iron Maiden, this new book chronicles the evolution of heavy metal’s most prestigious band, with unparalleled input from band members and management.
A truly spectacular and beautiful book, featuring never-before-seen items and photographs, which have been curated with enormous attention to detail over a number of years, it celebrates one of Britain’s most influential and biggest-selling bands, who have become arguably the biggest metal band in the world.
Organized chronologically, Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams tells the story of the band from their first pub gigs in 1975 and their first record deal in 1979, through the recording and reception of groundbreaking albums, including their self-titled debut, 1982’s global breakthrough The Number Of The Beast and the stadium-conquering Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, to 2021’s hugely acclaimed double-album Senjutsu and the forthcoming Run For Your Lives World Tour.
The book traces the evolution of their iconic Eddie mascot, alongside exclusive comments from his creator Derek Riggs, and documents the band’s spectacular and complex stage productions and extensive live tours, including the Somewhere Back In Time World Tour of 2008, which made international headlines as Bruce Dickinson piloted the band’s very own Ed Force One 757.
Presenting iconic album and single artworks, photographs of the band’s instruments past and present, stage props, hand-written lyrics and artefacts from the archive and the band’s personal collections, as well as landmark photographs by Ross Halfin, John McMurtrie and more, Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams is rife with revelatory stories and intriguing insights from pivotal band members and management. It is bookended by a foreword from band founder Steve Harris and an afterword by vocalist Bruce Dickinson.
Steve Harris says, “I’ve been pleasantly surprised at some of the stuff that I’ve managed to unearth for this book. I knew I had kept a lot of things from the early days but they have lasted really well and the photography has brought them back to life. I hope the fans are going to love looking at all the stuff presented like this! It’s the right time to bring it all together for part of our 50th celebrations.”
Tristan de Lancey, Creative Director at Thames & Hudson, commented: “Iron Maiden is an institution. Hailed as pioneers of British heavy metal in the 1980s, the band has come to embody a spirit of fearless creative independence and ferocious dedication to their fans that has won them a huge following around the world and across generations. With astonishing archival access and more meticulous, hands-on participation from the band than I ever thought possible, we have been gifted the tools to create something beautiful, comprehensive and unique which, I have no doubt, raises the bar for illustrated books in this music genre. Every page will surprise and delight its audience – just don’t expect metal fans to be the only ones who buy it…!”
Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams – The Official Visual History has been curated by Ben Smallwood and co-edited by Alexander Milas and Terry Burrows, incorporating contributions by band members and creatives past and present.
Tristan de Lancey, acquired World All Languages rights for Thames & Hudson from Oliver Stanton at Global Merchandising Services. Thames & Hudson has sold rights in six countries thus far: in France to Editions du Chêne (Hachette Livre); in Germany to Prestel Verlag (Penguin Random House); in Japan to Kawade Shobo Shinsha; in Spain to Libros Cúpula (Grupo Planeta); in Brazil to Belas Letras; and in Italy to Rizzoli Lizard (Gruppo Mondadori). The book will be published by Thames & Hudson in the UK, US and Australia.
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Dickinson was diagnosed with throat cancer just as Maiden were completing the recording of their 2015 album, The Book Of Souls. And as he now recalls, he always felt confident that his treatment would be successful.
“I felt good,” he says. “I believed I was going to come through fairly strongly. It was going to be a hard ten months, but at the end of that, I thought – I hoped – I should be able to do what I’d done before. But if not, I was quite prepared to leave – because if you can’t sing like you should be able to sing, that’s it.”
He explains: “I would have wanted the band to carry on properly. But I would have offered to help them find another singer, because there are other people out there.”
Read more at MusicRadar.
Dickinson recently announced his first extensive North American solo tour in almost 30 years in support of his current studio album, The Mandrake Project. For “The Mandrake Project Live 2025” North American Tour, Bruce Dickinson reunites his 2024 touring lineup featuring Philip Naslund and Chris DeClercq on guitars, Dave Moreno on drums, Mistheria on keyboards and Tanya O’Callaghan on bass.
For ticket information, head here.
“The Mandrake Project Live 2025” North American Tour kicks off in Anaheim, CA. at The House of Blues on August 22 and takes the band across North America including shows in New York, Los Angeles, Texas, Florida and Canada, with festival appearances at Rocklahoma (OK) and Louder Than Life (KY) with more to be announced. The tour also includes a quick return to Brazil for the prestigious “The Town” Festival at the City of Light in Sao Paulo.
“We are thrilled to be able to take The Mandrake Project out for a proper tour of North America,” enthuses Bruce Dickinson. “Last year we did a couple of sold-out U.S. West Coast dates before heading to South America and the response was just incredible. This time we will add ‘Shadow of The Gods’ to the setlist for this incredible band to perform plus a few other gems so we are really looking forward to seeing our fans again all over the country and for a couple of shows up in Canada.”
The Mandrake Project immediately became a global hit, topping the albums charts In Germany and Sweden, as well as entering the Official Album Charts at #3 in the UK and hitting Top 5 on the Top Album Sales charts in the US.
Tour dates:
August
22 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues
23 – Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
25 – Phoenix, AZ – Marquee Theatre
26 – Albuquerque, NM – Revel
28 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
29 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues
31 – Pryor, OK – Rocklahoma*
September
2 – New Orleans, LA – House of Blues
4 – Fort Lauderdale, FL – Revolution
7 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – The Town*
10 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
11 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
13 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
14 – Silver Spring, MD – Fillmore Silver Spring
16 – Toronto, ON – History
18 – Montreal, QC – MTELUS
21 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life*
23 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore
25 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
27 – Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
28 – Minneapolis, MN – Uptown
30 – Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
October
5 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
Iron Maiden are gearing up for a milestone in their storied career with the “Run For Your Lives” world tour. Kicking off in May in Hungary, the trek will traverse Europe, with announced dates running through August. This tour will be the band’s first with new drummer, Simon Dawson, in place of recently retired Nicko McBrain.
Most dates for Iron Maiden’s “Run For Your Lives” tour are sold out. Remaining tickets are available here. Dates are listed below:
Tour dates:
May
27 – Budapest, Hungary – Budapest Aréna
28 – Budapest, Hungary – Budapest Aréna
31 – Prague, Czech Republic – Letnany Airport
June
1 – Bratislava, Slovakia – Tipos Arena
5 – Trondheim, Norway – Trondheim Rocks (Festival)
7 – Stavanger, Norway – Sr-bank Arena
9 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena
12 – Stockholm, Sweden – 3Arena
13 – Stockholm, Sweden – 3Arena
16 – Helsinki, Finland – Olympic Stadium
19 – Dessel, Belgium – Graspop Metal Meeting
21 – Birmingham, England – Utilita Arena
22 – Manchester, England – Co-Op Live
25 – Dublin, Ireland – Malahide Castle
28 – London, England – London Stadium
30 – Glasgow, Scotland – OVO Hydro
July
3 – Belfort, France – Eurockéennes Festival
5 – Madrid, Spain – Riyadh Air Metropolitano
6 – Lisbon, Portugal – Meo Arena
9 – Zurich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion
11 – Gelsenkirchen, Germany – Veltins-Arena
13 – Padova, Italy – Stadio Euganeo
15 – Bremen, Germany – Bürgerweide
17 – Vienna, Austria – Ernst Happel Stadium
19 – Paris, France – Paris La Défense Arena
20 – Paris, France – Paris La Défense Arena
23 – Arnhem, Netherlands – Gelredome
25 – Frankfurt, Germany – Deutsche Bank Park
26 – Stuttgart, Germany – Cannstatter Wasen
29 – Berlin, Germany – Waldbühne
30 – Berlin, Germany – Waldbühne
August
2 – Warsaw, Poland – PGE Narodowy
Thames & Hudson have announced the forthcoming publication of Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams – The Official Visual History, to be published globally in hardback in fall 2025. A magnificent visual celebration of the first 50 years of Iron Maiden, this new book chronicles the evolution of heavy metal’s most prestigious band, with unparalleled input from band members and management.
A truly spectacular and beautiful book, featuring never-before-seen items and photographs, which have been curated with enormous attention to detail over a number of years, it celebrates one of Britain’s most influential and biggest-selling bands, who have become arguably the biggest metal band in the world.
Organized chronologically, Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams tells the story of the band from their first pub gigs in 1975 and their first record deal in 1979, through the recording and reception of groundbreaking albums, including their self-titled debut, 1982’s global breakthrough The Number Of The Beast and the stadium-conquering Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, to 2021’s hugely acclaimed double-album Senjutsu and the forthcoming Run For Your Lives World Tour.
The book traces the evolution of their iconic Eddie mascot, alongside exclusive comments from his creator Derek Riggs, and documents the band’s spectacular and complex stage productions and extensive live tours, including the Somewhere Back In Time World Tour of 2008, which made international headlines as Bruce Dickinson piloted the band’s very own Ed Force One 757.
Presenting iconic album and single artworks, photographs of the band’s instruments past and present, stage props, hand-written lyrics and artefacts from the archive and the band’s personal collections, as well as landmark photographs by Ross Halfin, John McMurtrie and more, Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams is rife with revelatory stories and intriguing insights from pivotal band members and management. It is bookended by a foreword from band founder Steve Harris and an afterword by vocalist Bruce Dickinson.
Steve Harris says, “I’ve been pleasantly surprised at some of the stuff that I’ve managed to unearth for this book. I knew I had kept a lot of things from the early days but they have lasted really well and the photography has brought them back to life. I hope the fans are going to love looking at all the stuff presented like this! It’s the right time to bring it all together for part of our 50th celebrations.”
Tristan de Lancey, Creative Director at Thames & Hudson, commented: “Iron Maiden is an institution. Hailed as pioneers of British heavy metal in the 1980s, the band has come to embody a spirit of fearless creative independence and ferocious dedication to their fans that has won them a huge following around the world and across generations. With astonishing archival access and more meticulous, hands-on participation from the band than I ever thought possible, we have been gifted the tools to create something beautiful, comprehensive and unique which, I have no doubt, raises the bar for illustrated books in this music genre. Every page will surprise and delight its audience – just don’t expect metal fans to be the only ones who buy it…!”
Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams – The Official Visual History has been curated by Ben Smallwood and co-edited by Alexander Milas and Terry Burrows, incorporating contributions by band members and creatives past and present.
Tristan de Lancey, acquired World All Languages rights for Thames & Hudson from Oliver Stanton at Global Merchandising Services. Thames & Hudson has sold rights in six countries thus far: in France to Editions du Chêne (Hachette Livre); in Germany to Prestel Verlag (Penguin Random House); in Japan to Kawade Shobo Shinsha; in Spain to Libros Cúpula (Grupo Planeta); in Brazil to Belas Letras; and in Italy to Rizzoli Lizard (Gruppo Mondadori). The book will be published by Thames & Hudson in the UK, US and Australia.
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