Iron Maiden in the Studio. Jake Brown
January 1999 – Blaze Bayley interview with Metal-Rules.com
1 February 1999 – Iron Maiden group interview with IronMaiden.com
1 February 1999 – Iron Maiden group interview 2 with IronMaiden.com
1 February 1999 – Dave Murray and Bruce Dickinson interview with Rolling Stone
1 February 1999 – Bruce Dickinson interview with Triple JJJ FM Radio
1 March 1999 – Bruce Dickinson and Janick Gers interview with Triple JJJ FM Radio
31 March 1999 – Adrian Smith interview with unknown source (credited to Maidenfans.com)
1 May 1999 – Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris interview with journalist Don Kaye
30 June 1999 – Janick Gers interview from the Janick Gers Tour Report
30 June 1999 – Steve Harris and Dave Murray interview with source unknown (credited to Maidenfans.com)
31 July 1999 – Janick Gers and Bruce Dickinson interview with Promethean Crusade
31 July 1999 – Janick Gers interview with Metal-Rules.com
1 August 1999– Bruce Dickinson interview with Rock Brigade
30 September 1999– Dave Murray interview with journalist Gary Games
1 December 1999 – Steve Harris interview with journalist Johnny B
1 March 2000 – Nicko McBrain interview with Metal-Sludge.com
1 March 2000 – Bruce Dickinson interview with Promethean Crusade
1 March 2000 – Bruce Dickinson interview with journalist Clay Marshall
1 March 2000 – Bruce Dickinson interview with Intoxicated e–zine
31 March 2000 – Bruce Dickinson interview with journalist Robert Jock
31 March 2000 – Bruce Dickinson interview with The Disseminated Group
30 April 2000 – Steve Harris interview with journalist Johnny B
30 April 2000 – Bruce Dickinson interview with journalist Vinnie Apicella
30 April 2000 – Bruce Dickinson interview with MTV
30 April 2000 – Bruce Dickinson interview with Classic Rock
1 June 2000 – Bruce Dickinson interview with journalist Bryan Reeseman
1 July 2000 – Steve Harris interview with Metal-Rules.com
31 July 2000 – Adrian Smith interview with IronMaiden.com FAQs
31 August 2000 – Steve Harris interview with IronMaiden.com FAQs
31 August 2000 – Janick Gers interview with IronMaiden.com FAQs
31 August 2000 – Dave Murray interview with IronMaiden.com FAQs
30 September 2000 – Bruce Dickinson interview with IronMaiden.com FAQs
30 September 2000 – Nicko McBrain interview with IronMaiden.com FAQs
31 August 2001 – Bruce Dickinson interview with Swedish TV station
1 February 2002 – Bruce Dickinson interview with KNAC.com February 2002 – Bruce Dickinson interview with journalist Fredrik Hjelm
1 March 2002 – Bruce Dickinson and Janick Gers interview with Niclas Müller-Hansen
March 1, 2002 – Bruce Dickinson interview with Metro
30 April 2003 – Bruce Dickinson interview with BBC 6Music
31 May 2003 – Nicko McBrain web interview (credited to Maidenfans.com)
30 June 2003 – Bruce Dickinson interview with Asbury Park Press
31 July 2003 – Nicko McBrain interview with Metalfan.nl
31 August 2003 – Iron Maiden group interview with Rock On
31 August 2003 – Janick Gers interview Metal-Rules.com
30 September 2003– Dave Murray interview with Undercover
1 November 2003 – Nicko McBrain interview with journalist Svenska Dagbladet
1 December 2003 – Nicko McBrain interview with Metal Masters
1 January 2004 – Dave Murray interview with Bravewords.com
1 September 2004 – Dave Murray interview with journalist Tim Cashmere
1 December 2004 – Steve Harris interview with Rock Brigade
1 June 2005 – Bruce Dickinson interview with BBC Live August 2006 – Bruce Dickinson interview with Ultimate Guitar September 2006 – Dave Murray interview with Guitarist
11 October 2006 – Steve Harris interview with journalist Kevin Purcell
26 October 2006 – Dave Murray interview with LiveDaily.com Autumn 2006 – Bruce Dickinson interview with Kerrang!
8 July 2010 – Iron Maiden interview with The Aquarian Weekly
11 July 2010 – Janick Gers interview with Blabbermouth.net
August 2010 – Iron Maiden band interview with Music Radar
August 2010 – Janick Gers interview with Metal-Rules.com
August 2010 – Bruce Dickinson interview with Kerrang! Autumn 2010 – Producer Kevin Shirley Web Blog, www.cavemanproductions.com August, 2010 – Iron Maiden band interview with Billboard
It could be argued that Iron Maiden is heavy metal’s most successful indie band. Billboard magazine has pointed out that, in the eyes of the industry at large, Iron Maiden ‘has always been an underground attraction’. Other pioneering peers like Motorhead and Metallica have been around for just as long or longer, innovating metal and advancing it commercially to a mainstream level but it was Iron Maiden who began the crossover. As heavy metal went from being just a sub-division of rock to its own signature brand, the BBC acknowledged them as ‘pioneers of a new wave of British heavy metal’.
What makes the band’s journey to over 100 million albums sold worldwide since forming in 1975 (‘with almost no radio or television support’, as the BBC added) so enduring? According to co-founding guitarist Dave Murray, the band has lasted these many decades thanks to its group philosophy. ‘When we do an album, we put a hundred and fifty per cent into it so, when you listen to an album a few years back and think, “Oh yeah, that sounds good,” you know you must’ve been doing the right thing at that time… We’re proud of everything we’ve done.’
So, too, are their legions of fans around the globe, whose continued championing of the band has earned Iron Maiden, among other honours: the Kerrang! Hall of Fame (2005); the BBC’s Greatest Metal Band Of All Time award; Metal Hammer’s 2009 Golden Gods award; a ranking in the Top 25 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock; and the No. 4 spot on MTV’s Top 10 Greatest Heavy Metal Bands Of All Time. Billboard recently declared that ‘Iron Maiden were and are one of the most influential bands of the heavy metal genre,’ and MTV.com added that the band have remained ‘consistently popular throughout their career’. The band’s impressive catalogue now stretches to 15 studio albums spread over 20 years.
MTV.com also noted that Maiden’s ‘often-imitated’ brand of metal would produce some of the ‘greatest rock recordings of all time’, while Rolling Stone observed that Iron Maiden ‘distinguished itself from its peers with unusually