ADRIAN SMITH
IRON MAIDEN AXEMAN and songwriter since 1980 – aside from that brief break in the 90s – Adrian Smith has contributed more than a few chapters (and hits) to the band’s four–decade-plus career. With their 2020 tour plans scuppered, he has found time to release his own book on fishing, with a few Maiden stories thrown in for good measure, of course. Hammer caught up with him for the angle.
I NEVER PLANNED ON WRITING A BOOK
“Somebody approached me to do it. They said, ‘We know you’re a keen fisherman and have lots of stories’, so they set up meetings with publishers. But I really enjoy writing and it was all done over a year and a half, mostly written on the road. It was a great project: diving into my past, my fishing experiences and things that had happened with the band.”
