[BRUCE DICKINSON]: Vocalist talks about writing with Adrian Smith

"When we write together, things fall into place pretty quickly. He’s quite a comfortable chap to write with, from that perspective. He comes up with some chord structures that are really easy to sing over and they’ve got a lot of musical color in them, which makes it easy to paint pictures in my head and write words and tunes that go on top. Sometimes, we can swap things around a little bit. What he thought might have been a chorus might turn out to be something in the middle. What I thought might have been a chorus might turn into a guitar piece, but you find that out once you start knocking ideas around. Adrian is a great tennis player and when you write songs with him it’s a bit like knocking a ball back and forth. Once you get to a good rally you go, ‘That was good! That was creative!’

Actually, that’s exactly what writing songs with Adrian is like.

Bruce also taks about The Writing on The Wall song writing by Bruce and Adrian

"Me and Adrian were quite surprised when we did “The Writing on the Wall.” He went, “That’s gotta be the first track!” We thought it might be an interesting first track, but that came [out of] left field.

It’s different for us. It’s a bit more mainstream in a way — more classic rock type stuff."

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