{"id":426673,"date":"2026-05-01T09:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/426673\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:03:10","slug":"i-remember-getting-booed-at-a-dublin-gig-for-waving-the-union-jack-iron-maidens-bruce-dickinson-on-hard-rock-and-their-new-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/426673\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I remember getting booed at a Dublin gig for waving the Union Jack\u2019: Iron Maiden\u2019s Bruce Dickinson on hard rock and their new doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe legendary metal singer on fearing he\u2019d never sing again, the band\u2019s new warts-and-all film, and experiencing a hard-rock version of Beatlemania\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Iron Maiden with Bruce Dickinson (front centre) at a gig in 1983. Photo: Ross Halfin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/_Credit_Ross_Halfin.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Iron Maiden with Bruce Dickinson (front centre) at a gig in 1983. Photo: Ross Halfin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There is a moment, deep into a new feature length documentary on Iron Maiden, which shows how huge they were on the other side of the Iron Curtain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was 1984, and the band \u2013 already among the giants of metal \u2013 were touring Poland. The scenes that greeted them everywhere they went were like a hard-rock version of Beatlemania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legendary metal singer on fearing he\u2019d never sing again, the band\u2019s new warts-and-all film, and experiencing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,280,279],"class_list":["post-426673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-meagher","tag-review-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}