Bassist and founding member recognizes that band is close to their retirement, but avoids stinging when the stages will be withdrawn when
Few artists and bands reach 50 years of career. THE Iron Maiden celebrates this mark in 2025, with its tour RUN FOR YOU LIVES – That must be stretched until next year and count even with passing through Brazil.
However, the members no longer preserve a speech of long -term continuity. The bassist and founder of the group, Steve Harrisadmits in an interview with The I Paper that the iron maiden is at the end of your career.
The 69 -year -old initially pointed out that a heavy metal show is “like a soccer match”.
“There is all this storage thing. He belongs to something, being part of something, seeing him grow. But also, obviously, we are coming to the end of our career. So people need to make the most of it now-while we are still here!”
The statement occurs even months after a low formation. The drummer Nicko McBrain He retired from tours last December, with farewell precisely in São Paulo. Simon Dawson (British Lion, The Outfield) occupies your place.
It even draws attention that Harris is so reflective over the end. He is perhaps the band’s most tireless member, because in addition to captains Maiden, he leads the Parallel British Lion project, with which shows in the same cities as the main group, albeit in much smaller spaces. On top of that, it does not stop playing its sacred football wherever it goes – curiously, one of the reasons why England left to live in Bahamas almost 20 years ago. About the change, he stated:
“I reached the age of 50, freezing in a soccer field, and I thought, ‘As much as I love England, I think I already served my pity here!’.”
When will Iron Maiden stop? Steve doesn’t know how to need it. He points out that the pace of activities still follows the same.
“We still play [em sua cidade] practically every year. Well, I think every two years, depending on your side of the world. ”
Why audience is still interested in Iron Maiden
Bruce Dickinson, interviewed by the same vehicle, was invited to reflect why Iron Maiden still attracts so much public. The audiences even seem to grow, with even larger shows than those performed at the height. The answer is direct:
“We are unique. Simple as that is so rare in this world of artificial intelligence, inventing things and being able to copy everything. And we are lucky to come up in an era when we could create this identity. And we simply do what we do: there is an audience for it. Just as there is an audience for the nonsense of temporary influencers. This is Iron Maiden…? ”
The Run For Your Lives Tour
Iron Maiden currently travels to Europe with the new tour of the Iron Maiden, Run For your lives. Giro celebrates the band’s 50th anniversary, founded in 1975 by Steve Harris.
The repertoire, as reported since the announcement of the tour, is all focused on the first nine studio albums of the Iron Maiden. Despite that, No Prayer for the Dying (1990) was left aside – no song from him has been played.
Among the main news are songs like “Killers” (It was not played since 1999), “Murders in the Rue Morgue” (since 2005) and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (since 2009).
In addition, the tour of the drummer’s debut Simon Dawson node Iron Maiden. It replaces Nicko McBrainwhich announced his stages retirement at the end of 2024 – the last show was in São Pauloin Allianz Parqueon September 7 of last year.
The Run For Your Lives tour began on May 27, in Budapestin Hungaryand has also passed through countries like Czech Republic, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Belgiumamong others. There are no expected dates for the Brazilbut it is imagined that the excursion arrives here in 2026.
Rolling Stone Brazil Special: Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden on the cover: A Rolling Stone Brazil He launched an edition of unpublished collector for fans of the Heavy Metal band. The biggest albums, the list of shows in Brazil, the power of the group’s market and even a tour of the band’s plane you can see in the printed special, for sale at Profile store.
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