When someone inquired about the future of the band after the current lineup is no longer around, Dickinson said, “There’s always hope.
There’ll be a whole new load of Iron [Maiden] members,” he continued. “We won’t even have fucking holograms, you know what I mean? You can actually have real Iron Maiden members that kind of look like us but are not us. … That’s good! I like that! It’s not a bad idea. Then we can just sit back and [receive] royalties and do no work. Good idea!”
However, he clarified, “It’ll never happen, because we’re never going to fucking retire.”
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