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Fact #139747

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On their The Book Of Souls World Tour, Iron Maiden play at Estadio Jorge Magico Gonzalez, El Salvador, San Salvador, Central America. While in the region, Maiden's drummer Nicko McBrain and guitarist Janick Gers visit the tomb of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, who was assassinated by members of a Salvadoran death squad, during a mass in 1980 at the start of the Salvadoran Civil war.

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Jeremy Smith (Rock-It Cargo) : Bruce Dickinson is an amazingly on-the-case kind of guy. At one show recently, in San Salvador, he said through the PA, "You changed that light bulb yet?" The sound guys were looking at each other because they had no idea what he was going on about, but there was a bulb not working on the flight deck and he'd noticed one of the guys from the 747 flight crew in the crowd, so he just asked in front of all those thousands of people. I’ve also seen quite a few singers in bands who use autocue to remember their lyrics. Bruce doesn’t do any of that.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, April 2016)