Iron Maiden - Secret of Success

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Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson says the secret of the band's success is traditional artistic values.
They're not interested in being rock stars and they're not impressed by the latest technical gimmicks – instead they focus on doing what they feel is right for them and their fans.
Dickinson tells the Telegraph: "We don't want to be recognised, except for what we do. The celebrity thing... I mean, Lindsay Lohan – what's she for?

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"I look at that and throw my hands up in despair. Maybe we're some kind of antidote to that." The band's Final Frontier world tour comes to Sonisphere on Sunday night, when the band will close the festival with a set which, controversially for some, focuses on the material they've written since Dickinson rejoined the band a decade ago, after quitting in the early 1990s.
But the singer maintains it's important to keep creating music which the band feels is valuable, and to advertise that to an ever-changing audience.
He says: "What's good is that when each new generation discovers the band it's on the cusp of a new album. Then they work their way through the older albums."
And despite being one of the most successful outfits to indulge in elaborate stage shows, they're not remotely interested in signing up for new technology just for its novelty. It's got to add value to the show, like the increasingly hi-tech Eddie puppets which grace the stage.
Dickinson explains: "There's a bit of old-fashioned stagecraft to this, and we're very proud of that fact.
"All our backdrops are painted. People have tried to sell us the latest video walls and we went, 'I'm afraid it looks crap. It looks like you're standing in front of some garish fruit machine in Vegas. It's awful.'
"Our backdrops are two-dimensional on canvas – but they have a more three-dimensional effect than anything that's 'modern'."