{"id":708935,"date":"2026-07-24T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708935\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T14:20:10","slug":"watch-iron-maidens-bruce-dickinson-make-a-surprise-appearance-with-green-day-frontman-billie-joe-armstrongs-covers-band-to-sing-a-david-bowie-penned-classic-rock-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708935\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson make a surprise appearance with Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s covers band to sing a David Bowie-penned classic rock anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iron Maiden<\/a> vocalist Bruce Dickinson made a surprise appearance at San Diego Comic-Con last night (July 23), joining Green Day<\/a> frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s rock and roll covers band The Coverups to perform Mott The Hoople classic All The Young Dudes.<\/p>\n

The 67-year-old British metal icon’s unannounced cameo at the event, a Fandom \/ Z2 Comics party launching the weekender, came five songs into The Coverups’ 26-song set. Dickinson had previously covered the song, written by David Bowie and recorded for Mott The Hoople’s Bowie-produced fifth album in 1972, on his 1990 solo album Tattooed Millionaire.<\/p>\n

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The Coverups set also included faithful takes on Buzzcock’s Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve) ,Ramones’ I Wanna Be Sedated, Nirvana’s Drain You – dedicated to late L7 bassist Jennifer Finch<\/a> – and classic songs by Cheap Trick, Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue, The Strokes and more.<\/p>\n

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Bruce Dickinson previously collaborated with Z2 on his science-fantasy comic book series The Mandrake Project<\/a>, a tie-in with his acclaimed 2024 solo album<\/a> bearing the same title.<\/p>\n

While the album was the first solo release from Iron Maiden’s singer in almost 20 years, Dickinson has promised that there is more new music to come.<\/p>\n

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“it’s not over,” he promised in 2024. “I’m going to be writing music in two or three weeks, I hope, with [longtime guitarist and collaborator] Roy[‘Z’ Ramirez] again, because we’ve got more stuff we wanna do. So, yeah, there’ll be another album, because we already have 10 or 12 different ideas for it.”<\/p>\n

The Mandrake Project reached number 3 in the UK charts upon its release in March 2024, and peaked at number 176 on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n

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Barring future surprise appearances, Dickinson will next be onstage on August 29 when Iron Maiden resume their Run For Your Lives world tour at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson made a surprise appearance at San Diego Comic-Con last night (July 23), joining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}