During a recent interview with Germany’s EMP, IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson was asked about the specific influences on his creativity and inspiration, including places, individuals, circumstances, and hobbies.
He said: “I think if you’re creative, then you just have to be aware of when creativity may strike and be prepared to abandon all those ordinary things that everybody else thinks are important for that special moment, which has just fallen and hit you on top of the head, which can be very frustrating for the rest of humanity when they want you to go to dinner, but you actually want to write the last page of something because you just happen to be in the mood.
“Things like that happen at odd and unusual times. It happens to me when I’m driving around, which is very inconvenient, because you want to pull over and write something immediately, and often you can’t. Or sitting on trains, strangely enough. But then somebody starts making a noise and distracting you, and you just get very inconvenient. So I like to be kind of lonely in a crowded room sometimes when I create. Sometimes I go off and just take a wander around the graveyard. I find that cheers me up.”
Dickinson will release his new solo album, The Mandrake Project, on March 1 via BMG. Alongside the album, Bruce also announced an exciting collaboration with Z2 for an upcoming comic series. To the delight of the international comic community, 2,000 exclusive versions of the comic were unveiled at CCXP, adding to the excitement surrounding this extraordinary project.
With ten captivating and innovative tracks, The Mandrake Project promises to be a definitive rock album of 2024, showcasing Bruce Dickinson’s exceptional vocal prowess and his long-standing partnership with co-writer and producer Roy “Z” Ramirez.
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