{"id":950753,"date":"2026-10-29T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950753\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:50:17","slug":"nicko-mcbrain-says-iron-maiden-couldve-handled-bruce-dickinson-split-better-why-do-i-want-look-at-his-sorry-ass-on-stage-and-know-he-doesnt-want-to-be-there-ultimate-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950753\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicko McBrain Says Iron Maiden Could&#039;ve Handled Bruce Dickinson Split Better: &#039;Why Do I Want Look at His Sorry Ass on Stage and Know He Doesn&#039;t Want to Be There?&#039; &#8211; Ultimate Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitwJBVV95cUxNM3F6WmZLbkI3WXQtSGNwMlA5bUZGWVk0aFltV3Fyc3BoYzRmSjVzSlVLR25kbmRlSDBqRmFCaTl5dWNpNTg5QkNXaDMzTjM2bndSV1BMdVlydHRCZDd0c1p4Z1FabHM5WXZDNjBKN29jR0c4bERsMDZTdFJnWW1tM0ZXS1dqckoxTEhqNm4xU0tCbHVxOVBLNkk1UXJsNWxyd2J2OG9DMnd0UVo3NVpNQTVMZUEtYkNjeDZSeWxsbGNpTEhmT19DSVFPS1dyR2FmQVN2eHF1OWd4dk9rQlRrb01tT2FXbC1jNi1MTjZpS05qZXlwX0M1cXVHVnpiYlhWVEt1Q2pMdFd2OTlHNlVwOFduYVlkcUVBLVlkel9XUlk5U1c4cVB4bnlubTJYUngyVXdoLWdmaw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nicko McBrain Says Iron Maiden Could&#8217;ve Handled Bruce Dickinson Split Better: &#8216;Why Do I Want Look at His Sorry Ass on Stage and Know He Doesn&#8217;t Want to Be There?&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Ultimate Guitar<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.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?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cI think we really should have helped him out by transposing the key of the songs for him. But we didn\u2019t, and it was a tough time\u201d: Drummer Nicko McBrain admits that Iron Maiden didn\u2019t do enough for singer Blaze Bayley when he replaced Bruce Dickinson<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;MusicRadar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicko McBrain Says Iron Maiden Could&#8217;ve Handled Bruce Dickinson Split Better: &#8216;Why Do I Want Look at His&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[325195,47498,49,48,361,75,8867,2527,8868],"class_list":["post-950753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-brave-new-world","tag-bruce-dickinson","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-iron-maiden","tag-metal","tag-nicko-mcbrain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}