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Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain has given his first in-depth interview since he retired from touring after glorious 42 years.

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Asked how he feels about his retirement, Nicko said: "Mixed emotions, obviously. Making the decision to step back from touring has been — it was easy at the time, going towards the end of the tour. And everybody went, 'Okay. If that's what you wanna do, we understand,' having my handicap, since my stroke and stuff like that.

So having said that, I get up some days and I'm, like, 'I'm gonna miss the next tour and I'm not gonna be able to go out on the road. I wish I had my full fitness. This one, we kept the kind of same schedule, like gig, travel day, gig, travel day, gig, two days off or a day off, travel day, that sort of thing. And it was just — it just got to me.

And we made do, we got through it okay, but I felt that I was not being able to drive the band like I wanted to, although I had a personal trainer out on the road towards the end of the North American tour…". He added: "We didn't have any rest days. If we did two shows in a row, we'd have a travel day and then a full day off. It was working out nice for me.

I was enjoying getting that physical side of training. I wasn't doing so much weight; it was a lot of kind of yoga stretches, a lot of things like that, trying to get my mental agility back with coordinating. And it was coming on nice, but it was just a struggle for me.