Bruce Dickinson stated the early interval of his COVID lockdown was ruined by a musician who stored performing a foul model of Europe’s signature music “The Remaining Countdown.”

The Iron Maiden singer informed Rolling Stone that he loved the expertise of staying along with his girlfriend in France when the pandemic started in 2020.

“The solar was out for the primary a part of it, and it was like a novelty at first,” Dickinson stated in an interview primarily masking the brand new Maiden album Senjutsu. “I used to be caught in Paris in my girlfriend’s condominium, and the worst factor was we’ve a really small balcony, and there was a man within the condominium above us who insisted on working towards his saxophone each 5 o’clock within the afternoon, doing the world’s worst ‘The Remaining Countdown.’ It’s like waking up by a shotgun, you realize?”

A reference to the truth that September 2021 marks 40 years since he auditioned for Iron Maiden led to Dickinson expressing contempt for believing particulars about individuals on-line. “‘Based on the web’ … properly, there you go,” he stated. “I checked out my web definitely worth the different day, and I used to be like, ‘Holy shit, I’m value 4 instances what Steve Harris is value. I will need to have written an entire bunch of songs I by no means knew about.’ So, no, a whole lot of it’s bullshit. However they’re okay on dates typically. So yeah, it’s in all probability round 40 years.”

He stated two auditions befell as Maiden got down to change Paul Di’Anno. “The primary one was simply in a rehearsal room,” Dickinson famous. “They requested me to be taught 4 songs, and I believed, ‘Properly, they’ve solely bought two albums. I’ll be taught all of them.’ … After which they needed to go off and do some gigs with the outdated singer in Sweden. So I believed, ‘Properly, that have to be sort of troublesome as a result of they only had this sort of very enjoyable day with me.’

“After which they got here again and stated, ‘Okay, properly, we fired him, and so now we wish to offer you a check in a recording studio simply to verify we’re not listening to issues.’”

After singing over 4 dwell tracks, Maiden determined Dickinson was in. “So all of us went right down to a UFO live performance, I believe, at a theater someplace, and drank a whole lot of beer,” the singer recalled. “After which the remaining is historical past. The onerous work really started the following day.”