During a conversation with the Scars And Guitars podcast, bassist Steve Harris opened up about his relationship with Iron Maiden’s frontman, Bruce Dickinson, suggesting that the bassist is very glad that Dickinson is the face of the iconic heavy metal band.

Regarding this, Steve Harris said:

“Well, I’ve always encouraged whatever band I’ve been in or whatever I’ve done in the past, even before that, it’s always really the frontman that you wanna push as being the key focal figure, really. I mean, it was only because, say, Paul (Di’Anno) wasn’t really that active on stage, he had a great stage presence, but he wasn’t really very active on stage. So, you kind of, I would not say compensate, but you just fill in for whatever.

“When Bruce came along, he was a full-on frontman. And also Bruce does a lot of the interviews, and he’s out there speaking to mainstream media. I’m not so good with them. He’s a bit different with mainstream media, he’s good at doing the mainstream media, so we get him focused on that.

”And also with him being a pilot and all these other things, it gives him more of a profile when [it comes to dealing with the media] than the rest of us. I’m totally happy with that because I don’t really see the limelight anyway… I don’t court mainstream media.”