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Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has recalled an incident in 1988 that made him want to punch Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses - adding that he wish he had.
Speaking to recently with Le Journal de Montréal, Dickinson opened up about when Guns N' Roses opened for Iron Maiden in Quebec City during May 1988. He explained that Rose was being rude towards the crowd because they were speaking French.
"I should have come on stage and given him a punch," said Dickinson. "How could he dare speak to my audience in that way? I always regretted not having done so".
Last week, Iron Maiden released their latest album 'The Book Of Souls' (4 September).
Dickinson recently spoke about his recent battle with cancer, suggesting that it could have been caused by the sexually transmitted HPV virus.
The singer was given the all-clear in May after contracting cancer at the back of his tongue, doctors treating him with seven weeks of chemotherapy. He recorded the latest Maiden album 'The Book of Souls' just before this diagnosis.
Speaking in a Sirius-XM radio interview, Dickinson spoke about initially discovering the tumours. "I had one golf ball-sized one in my tongue, and I had another one the size of a large strawberry or a small walnut in the lymph node in the right side of my neck, and that’s the one that felt a little strange."
"Everybody makes the jokes about Michael Douglas [who made very similar claims] because he was having oral sex and it’s just, like, okay, we need to get over that one, guys, because this is kind of serious. There’s hundreds of thousands of people at risk for this."
