Iron Maiden interview: 'People feel threatened by heavy metal
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Iron Maiden have sold 100 million records, pack out arenas, and are famously business-savvy – yet a snobbery about their music remains
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Iron Maiden claim people are threatened by heavy metal
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Bruce Dickinson on Why People Feel 'Actively Threatened by Metal
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