Iron Maiden Drummer Nicko McBrain Nearly Quit After Live Screw-up
September 15, 2021 11:58AM CDT
It’s hard to imagine Iron Maiden without longtime drummer Nicko McBrain. But he says he once nearly quit the band after a concert screw-up.
McBrain appeared on Chris Jericho’s Talk Is Jericho podcast, telling the story of a 1984 show in London when he messed up a vocal cue from frontman Bruce Dickinson.
McBrain was so convinced that he’d be fired for his mistake that he told the rest of the band “I’m really sorry. You don’t have to fire me, I’ll just leave.”
But McBrain wasn’t fired, of course – in fact his bandmates thought the moment was “priceless”.
Iron Maiden’s latest album, Senjutsu, is the highest-charting record of their career.
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