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Fact #109931

When:

Short story:

Vocalist Bruce Dickinson announces that he is leaving heavy rock band Samson. Before the month is out, he will have joined Iron Maiden.

Full article:

Neal Kay (deejay, Heavy Metal Soundhouse : Paul Samson blamed me for Bruce Dickinson leaving and joining Maiden. Steve Harris had asked me what I thought of Bruce, and I said, "I think the bloke's an animal, but he's in the wrong band."

So I was about to go and play a gig at The Green Man in Leightonstone, when Steve rang me and asked me to get Bruce to come to my gig, and tell him to ring the Maiden office, because they wanted to talk to him. So I did that, and he made the call, and did a bit of an audition, but I think they'd already decided they wanted him.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, May 2014, for Classic Rock magazine)