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In an interview with The Metal Voice, vocalist Blaze Bayley spoke about his entire career, recalling his dismissal from Iron Maiden in 1999:
“I left Iron Maiden, not by choice, I was fired, they said I wasn’t good enough. I asked if Bruce was coming back and they said yes. I think what was happening in the world at the time was that CD sales were falling. EMI was closing all the factories around the world. The CD industry was shrinking. Different record labels were joining together in different partnerships. So I think it was a business decision for Bruce to come back. I was very hurt at the time and I think it took me four years to really accept what had happened.”.
