Hooks in You
“One of the [nuns] picked up The Number of the Beast, and it’s got Eddie and the devil. I’m like, oh my God, she’s going to drag me straight to the church and hear my confession”
IRON MAIDEN GUITAR maestro Adrian Smith recently published his first book, Monsters of River & Rock: My Life as Iron Maiden’s Compulsive Angler. As its full title suggests, the eye-catching tome is dedicated to the guitarist’s number-one off-stage pastime, fishing. But there’s a bit more to it.
“[Monsters of River & Rock] started off as a 100-percent fishing book,” Smith tells Guitar World. “As I went on, I found there were parallels with my two passions of fishing and music; I was combining them more. I’d say the books is probably 70 percent fishing and 30 percent stories from the road, the studio and personal stuff. I don’t think at this point I’d do an autobiography on purely music.”
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