Iron Maiden offer advice to young musicians

Aspiring musicians have been told they must be able to deliver the goods on stage if they want to make it in the music industry.

According to Bruce Dickinson, lead vocalist with Iron Maiden, it is more important than ever before to be a competent live act.

However, he told the Sun that artists should also be able to produce equally high standards when they enter a recording studio.

"You must have something special that nobody else can do - a sound or songs or performance," Dickinson commented.

He added that bands must learn to live with each other when they are all sharing a bus on tour.

Dickinson revealed that Iron Maiden have survived and remained friends partly because every band member has learned to give each other space when necessary.

The band rose to prominence in the early 1980s, notching up hits such as Run to the Hills, Bring Your Daughter … to the Slaughter and The Evil That Men Do.

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