Tom Morello Vows to 'Chew My Leg Off' If Iron Maiden Doesn't Get into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: 'Egregious Oversight'

Mar. 15, 2025

Tom Morello on Oct. 19, 2024; Bruce Dickinson on Jan. 16, 2024.Photo:Getty(2)

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Tom Morellois ready to get Iron Maiden into theRock & Roll Hall of Fame.

“I will chew my leg off like a coyote in a trap if I can’t get Iron Maiden in,” Morello, 60, said in a recent appearance onThe Eddie Trunk Podcast. “While there are many other deserving acts, Iron Maiden for me is the last most egregious oversight in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.”

“Iron Maiden is like the gold standard of metal bands and they’re not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. And I knowBruce Dickinsonsaid he doesn’t really care. Well, I care as a fan. I care very, very much about it. So I’m gonna do all I can to get, [with] whatever limited influence I have, to get Iron Maiden in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.”

There is a chance if the band is ever inducted, they’d refuse. In a 2018 interview withThe Jerusalem Post, Dickinson said, “I’m really happy we’re not there and I would never want to be there. If we’re ever inducted I will refuse – they won’t bloody be having my corpse in there.”

He laid out his gripes with the Hall of Fame, saying, “Rock & roll music does not belong in a mausoleum in Cleveland. It’s a living, breathing thing, and if you put it in a museum, then it’s dead. It’s worse than horrible, it’s vulgar.”

Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden performing on Sept. 16, 2024 in Auckland.Dave Simpson/WireImage

Dave Simpson/WireImage

Original Iron Maiden vocalistPaul Di’Anno’sdeath was confirmed on Oct. 21. In a follow-up statement shared to his Facebook page on Monday, Nov. 11, his family revealed hiscause of deathwas “a tear in the sac around the heart and blood has filled inside it from the main aorta artery and that has caused the heart to stop.”

The band issued a statement in honor of the late singer, writing:

Rage Against the Machine performing on Aug. 12, 2022 in New York City.Astrida Valigorsky/Getty

Astrida Valigorsky/Getty

Di’Anno’s replacement Dickinson admitted in an appearance on Rich Roll that a cancerous tumor on his tongue almost forced him tofind his own replacement.

“I was quite prepared to accept that I might not be able to sing with Iron Maiden again,” Dickinson, 66, said. “I might be able to sing, I might be able to vocalize, I might be able to sing in a different way, but if I couldn’t sing the way I have to sing with Iron Maiden, I’ll help them find a great replacement. Because the music is sacrosanct.”

source: people.com