BRUCE DICKINSON ON WHY THEY WERE 'HANDS OFF' FOR NEW IRON MAIDEN DOCUMENTARY

The legendary heavy metal band have completed 50 years in action and are going strong with a two-year run of shows as part of the Run For Your Lives world tour

- By Anurag Tagat

In March this year, Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson was at a comic book convention in New Jersey and met Stranger Things actor Gaten Matarazzo, who portrays Dustin in the cult series.

The show had, by then, built a bit of a reputation for using metal bands like Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” and in season 5, fans heard Iron Maiden’s “The Trooper” rumbling into action onscreen. Dickinson tells Rolling Stone India, “We had a pic together. My Instagram went completely off the charts. That was huge.” Previously, The Walking Dead had also used “When the Wild Wind Blows” in their show. Dickinson recalls he hadn’t been informed about the song placement at the time. “The first thing I knew about it was when I was watching an episode and went, ‘Hold on a minute! They nicked that from an Iron Maiden song... just a minute, it is the Iron Maiden song!’”