Bruce Dickinson
Bruce Dickinson
Paul Bruce Dickinson, known professionally as Bruce Dickinson, is an English singer, songwriter, musician, airline pilot, author and broadcaster. He is best known as the lead singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden and is renowned for his wide-ranging operatic vocal style and energetic stage presence...
ProfessionMetal Singer
Date of Birth7 August 1958
CityWorksop, England
dark costa-rica firsts
(On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?
daydreaming very-good asks
I'm very good at daydreaming. Ask any of my schoolteachers.
prisms known
I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
mean iron leaving
I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig.
son practice voice
My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals they're screaming-growling stuff and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'
albums form artwork
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
fun beer class
In the days when Glastonbury was an alternative festival, it was quite interesting. Now it is the most bourgeois thing on the planet ... we'll leave the middle classes to do Glastonbury and the rest of the great unwashed will decamp to Knebworth and drink a lot of beer and have fun.
artist auditions want
Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.
song writing people
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.
fashion icons life-is
Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
iron employment goes-on
When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off
iron needs maidens
Everything you need to know about Iron Maiden is onstage.
journey drunk done
Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.
creative littles sometimes
Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.