Bruce Dickinson shares the legendary stage acrobatic he’s wanted to do for years during an Iron Maiden show

Bruce Dickinson disclosed the stage act he had long desired to execute but bemoaned the fact that he would never be permitted to do so, as per UCR. The singer of Iron Maiden is well known for giving his gigs his all. Additionally, in a recent interview with Metal Hammer, he discussed the inspiration that sustains his vigour at 67.

I could be at home, you’re absolutely right, but it’s a very simple thing – when I walk out onstage, it’s one of the few moments during my life when the rest of the world can go to hell. On a really good night, you completely lose yourself in some weird higher power that takes you over. You inhabit the song, your voice just seems to anticipate everything, and that’s why I do it.

When asked if he had ever performed while intoxicated, he acknowledged it.

Yes. In the early days of [pre-Maiden band] Samson, we thought we’d play better when we were completely f––ed up. We listened back to it a few days later with a degree of horror and went, ‘Oh f––k, it doesn’t work like that, does it?’

He also remembered hurting himself during Maiden’s global tour in 1982.

I f––ed ed up a disc in my neck… basically by shaking my head around and headbanging. Rattling my brain around made me feel good at the time, but it definitely didn’t make me feel good after a while. It hit me in America. I basically lost the use of my left arm because of it – I couldn’t feel three of my fingers; I had muscle spasms everywhere. I wore a neck collar during the daytime, took it off for the shows and basically faked it in terms of using my left arm.

Dickinson declared the flamethrower he has been utilising on recent tours to be his all-time favourite stage prop.

… but there’s nowhere on this [current] tour where it’s been appropriate.

Then he talked about the dream prop.

I wanted to have a zip line from the PA tower to the stage, and that’s how I would enter the stage. It was just too f––ing complicated. And it would also be really nice to levitate and fly and all that stuff, but we would only be told it’s too difficult and not to bother with it.