Steve Harris might write a book but he finds it time-consuming.
“I’d love to do a book at some point,” the bassist said when asked by Andrew McKaysmith of the Scars And Guitars podcast about his intentions to write a book. “I know how much work would have to go into it to do one and the amount of time.”
Harris further noted, “So that’s the problem. I’ve written a few forewords for other people’s books and even doing those just takes time. So, I thought, wow, if it takes that much time to just do a foreword, then what’s it gonna be like doing a book? But, yeah, I’m sure I’ll do one at some point.”
The musician talked about the idea of writing an autobiography back in March on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk. “I’d love to write a book at some point, but it’s just a question of time,” Harris stated. “‘Cause there’s so many other things that I do when I’m not on tour.”
He added, “So to do a book — I couldn’t do like Bruce [Dickinson, Iron Maiden singer] does; I mean, he just does 10 things at once. He told me that he was writing [his book] like even in the dressing room before shows… I can’t do that. I need to sort of set it out and do it really more methodical than that. So I know it would take me quite a bit of time to do. But, yeah, I would like to do one. I mean, I probably would write a book just about the early days, really.”
Steve also said it’s possible that an official Iron Maiden documentary could happen, “I think there could be some bits and pieces we could do like that. Yeah.”
Iron Maiden’s Future Past tour begins on September 1 in Perth, Australia. After performing more shows in Australia and one in New Zealand, the band will head towards Japan before starting their North American tour on October 4.