Iron Maiden frontman, Bruce Dickinson has got more than " Come Fly With Me" in common with Frank Sinatra...(that's a Dad joke if ever I heard one.. Sorry.)
Speaking at the IBM Smarter Business event in Stockholm this week, Dickinson waxed lyrical on imagination in business blah blah blah. The most interesting thing he copped to, was the compositional inspiration for the Iron Maiden track " Run To The Hills". Once upon a time Dickinson was watching a program on TV that had invited a musicoligist along to talk about why Frank Sinatra's "My Way" was the most popular song in recorded history. The musicoligist said that it was " all in the rising sixth" which refers to the sixth interval in a scale. Excited by the revelation Dickinson called the sound made the double rising sixth in the song My Way " like musical heroin..." Dickinson then went on to give a vocal example of of " My Way" in order to illustrate the Iron Maiden compositional secret.
