Watch crowd celebrate Bruce Dickinson’s 60th birthday in Birmingham

By Scott Munro
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Iron Maiden release video showing the crowd wishing frontman Bruce Dickinson a happy birthday at their Legacy Of The Beast show in Birmingham this week

Iron Maiden are currently on The Legacy Of The Beast tour across the UK.

The rock icons played a memorable set at Birmingham’s Genting Arena earlier this week – on a night that just happened to be frontman Bruce Dickinson’s 60th birthday.

After the crowd sang happy birthday to him, Dickinson told the audience: “I had forgotten it was my 60th birthday until you reminded me.”

Drummer Nicko McBrain joked: “He’s the old git of the band now!”

Dickinson replied: “Stop mucking about and get on with the fucking concert!”

Maiden will bring the curtain down on the tour with a pair of shows at London’s O2 Arena on Friday and Saturday.

The band are the cover stars of the new issue of Metal Hammer magazine, which is on sale now. Fans can also get their hands on an exclusive Legacy Of The Beast bundle featuring the magazine, a Pharaoh Eddie patch and a limited edition Legacy Of The Beast figure.

There are only 666 bundles available worldwide and once they're gone, they're gone.

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Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent 35 years in newspapers, magazines and online as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. Scott joined our news desk in the summer of 2014 before moving to the e-commerce team in 2020. Scott keeps Louder’s buyer’s guides up to date, writes about the best deals for music fans, keeps on top of the latest tech releases and reviews headphones, speakers, earplugs and more. Over the last 10 years, Scott has written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog. He's previously written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald newspapers, covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to tech reviews, video games, travel and whisky. Scott's favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Cocteau Twins, Drab Majesty, Marillion and Rush.