Bruce Dickinson has never minced words about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. His legendary metal band Iron Maiden have been eligible to be inducted since 2004, but the supposed arbiters of rock excellence didn't nominate them until 2021, when they were snubbed (and then snubbed again in 2023).
"I actually think the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is an utter and complete load of bollocks, to be honest with you," Dickinson told a room of fans in 2018. He added, "It's run by a bunch of sanctimonious bloody Americans who wouldn't know rock & roll if it hit them in the face. They need to stop taking Prozac and start drinking fucking beer."
Well, it doesn't seem like Dickinson feels any different today. In a new interview with the Telegraph, Dickinson proudly stated that he doesn't even want to be in the Rock Hall — at least not yet.
"I don't want to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," Dickinson said. "Because we're not dead yet!"
He continued, "Some people feel almost actively threatened by metal. Not by the nature of the music. But by the fact that it doesn't conform to their worldview of what pop music should be, which is: pop music is disposable, darling. Well, we don't make disposable pop music."
Elsewhere in the interview, Dickinson commented on Iron Maiden's outcast status in the wider music industry, having never been invited to play the huge British music festival Glastonbury, only having won one Brit Award and never getting their due from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame."
"We don't give a monkey's," Dickinson retorted. "Because the people that get us are not the people that run the music business establishment, whatever that is. Because that is largely run by people that can't make a living doing anything else."
