Dickinson surprised guests at Fandom’s Comic-Con party to cover Mott the Hoople\u2019s \u201cAll the Young Dudes\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tTalk about a rock crossover we didn\u2019t know we needed. On Thursday night at Fandom\u2019s Comic-con<\/a> weekend kick off party in San Diego, Iron Maiden<\/a> frontman Bruce Dickinson<\/a> surprised fans and joined Billie Joe Armstrong<\/a>\u2018s the Coverups onstage.<\/p>\n \n\tThe rock icons dove into an impassioned cover of Mott the Hoople\u2019s\u00a0classic\u00a0\u201cAll the Young Dudes,\u201d with Armstrong playing his signature red Les Paul as he and Dickinson harmonized. Both Dickinson and Armstrong have a storied history with the song: Dickinson recorded a version for his 1990 solo album\u00a0Tattooed Millionaire, while Armstrong credited David Bowie, who wrote track, on Green Day<\/a>\u2018s 2009 hit \u201c21 Guns,\u201d which shares a similar melody.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tEarlier in the night, the Coverups had set the stage on a high note with covers of rock classics, including Cheap Trick\u2019s \u201cHello There\u201d and the Ramones\u2019 \u201cI Wanna Be Sedated.\u201d The cover band is one of Armstrong\u2019s many side projects.<\/p>\n \n\tFor the unacquainted, Dickinson\u2019s presence at the Comic-Con event makes more sense when you remember he wrote a 12-issue comic book series as part of his solo concept album The Mandrake Project. On Friday, the rock star will be signing copies of The Mandrake Project: Year Two, a new collection that details the road to the album-comic. \u201cWe\u2019ve performed with Green Day quite a lot of times, but we\u2019ve been on separate stages in separate bands,\u201d Dickinson told<\/a> a CBS affiliate on Friday. \u201cI more or less remember the words,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cIt was good fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dickinson surprised guests at Fandom’s Comic-Con party to cover Mott the Hoople\u2019s \u201cAll the Young Dudes\u201d Talk about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[153920,39484,15101,96,38600,13565,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-billie-joe-armstrong","tag-bruce-dickinson","tag-comic-con","tag-entertainment","tag-green-day","tag-iron-maiden","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709431","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=709431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}