A fan of the Monty Python comedy troupe, in 2009 Dickinson appeared in "". He also recorded a new version of the theme song from "Monty Python's Life of Brian" for the sixth and final episode. In December 2017, Dickinson said that he has tentative plans for his next solo album to be "a whole concept album", with the title being "If Eternity Should Fail", the same song name from Iron Maiden's album "The Book of Souls", in which he confirmed that it was originally penned as a solo track, "So if I did do another solo album, which I think I will, I might just stick to my original plan and have that as the title track. I mean, I did write it – it was the first track that I wrote for it. So, yeah, I'd probably still include that song. But it would be… the feel would be slightly different – not very much, though – from the Maiden version."