Queen and Iron Maiden

Hello friends,

I enjoy Iron Maiden as much as Queen (or a bit more lately). We know that they supported Queen at Rock in Rio in 1985, so I would expect them to participate in the Freddie tribute concert in 1992. Does anybody know or have a guess why Iron Maiden was not there that day?

That one, only Friends of Roger and Brian where there...

Where was Montserrat? Peter Straker? Phil Collins? Cliff Richard?

Just because they supported Queen doesn't mean they were there by invitation from the band. Would have been great to see them at the gig though...

Indeed - the main act at a festival gig does not select the other acts.

I agree, BM is friends with the band he played with Bad News when they supported Maiden back in the 80S and Bruce Dickinson played with BM and RT on the Smoke of the Water remake. He also covered Barcelona with Montsy.

Its a bit tenuous though. Its like saying BM used to be in Queen so why wasn't he playing guitar on Great Pretender.

Sanctury borrows the Keep yourself alive riff.
Bruce knew Freddie and his favorite song is who wants to live for ever.
Also in reincarnation of Behamim song, Maiden's producer stated that they used Brian guitar orchestrations. And that Brian is the Gate keeper in Rock

ili wrote:

Hello friends,

I enjoy Iron Maiden as much as Queen (or a bit more lately). We know that they supported Queen at Rock in Rio in 1985, so I would expect them to participate in the Freddie tribute concert in 1992. Does anybody know or have a guess why Iron Maiden was not there that day?

Probably because they are awful. Having been there I am most thankful they weren't.

I'm a big fan of Iron Maiden. Not many bands have a frontman who also flies the band around the world in a 747. Doens't get any more rock'n'roll than that!

I grew up on Maiden, what I know is Bruce is a big Queen fan, didn't know his favorite was who wants to live forever, but obviously a fan of Freddie and Brian. He sang Barcelona and I want to Break Free. Also, on the first Record they had to remake the song Phantom Of The Opera on their first Record because the original sounded too much like Queen.

Does the rejected version exist anywhere?

Mooghead, Don't think so. They mentioned it on the Documentary of the early years of Maiden and how the original Phantom was so much better than the album version, but the Producer said it was a Queen ripoff so they chose to change it. It's probably in the archives, but will probably never hear it.

I know Freddie and Bruce met, I wonder what type of discussions they had. I just remember the story of the Rio gig where they booed freddie off the stage because he was wearing drag, and Bruce saw how upset freddie was. He felt misunderstood that night accordind to Bruce.