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• It's a poor idea to have Iron Maiden go on a show like Top of the Pops and ask them to mime along to playback. This is what happened.
• In a concert at Brazil, a banner reading "Play 'Alexander the Great'" was thrown at the stage. Bruce's response? This. Hard to pick what's funnier: an Epic Rocking song played it in the kazoo, or the crowd showing they don't know the lyrics.
  • Speaking of shows in Brazil. During their gig at the city of Belém, Pará, Bruce Dickinson told the tale of how he almost didn't make it to the show because he suffered from severe diahrrea after drinking caipirinha earlier that day. For those not in the known, caipirinha is a heavy typical cocktail.
• Nicko trying to sing "Age of Innocence".
  • For that matter, many of the "Listen With Nicko" tracks of the singles collection "The First Ten Years".
• "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is often played at the end of their shows.
• A Spinal Tap-like B-side filled with Vulgar Humor, Nodding Donkey Blues.
• OOOOOOOOH HERE COMES 4 G AND WE'RE GOING INTO ORBIT!!!!!!
• And while we're on B-sides, "Pass the Jam".
• Imagine you going on a trip by airplane and hear the pilot say: "Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain Bruce Dickinson speaking." Yes, Bruce Dickinson is a licensed pilot.
• Any time Bruce calls out a dickhead on stage. His endless swearing is priceless.
• "Mission from 'Arry". All of it. Especially when Steve Harris calls Bruce Dickinson a cunt. Doubling the hilarity is the Live After Death documentary, where Bruce, Steve and Nicko all describe how, once they found the tape, they listened to it in the studio and laughed their arses off, leading Steve to suggest that it should be made the B-side to "2 Minutes to Midnight".
• Nicko getting all rage fueled when talking about Bruce in a 1995 interview.
• The cheese shop incident, a concert at which Bruce sang altered lyrics for 22 Acacia Avenue and Run To The Hills, making them both about cheese.