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
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Well, if it's the audience is a bit lagging we kick them in the nuts until they wake up!
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I've always enjoyed reading lyrics, trying to do them more than just lyrics, trying to have some more meaning in them. I know a lot of people are just happy to have a kind of broken word lyrics. I just wonder why, there's no reason why they can't at least attempt to do something a bit better.
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That gives me tremendous encouragement and optimism for the human race in general, that people choose to go off and do their own things.
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I'll be arriving at the last possible minute and walking on stage raging and pillaging and then disappearing immediately afterwards.
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We could tell there were a lot of disgusted fans who had paid good money to see us.
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Alice is much a focused rebellion, he's a fantastic cartoon character almost, if you like, and therefore he's still successful today-my kid, 11 years old, loves Alice Cooper.
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I don't even think that you can call Iron Maiden 100% real metal. Iron Maiden is beyond that and always has been. That is one of the things that America has always had a problem with, but right now we might be moving to a point where by America may actually understand what Maiden is all about. We'll see.
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I'm a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat.
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I love performing on the stage, but I don't like being famous-I just don't see the point, it just cheapens everything.
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I only ever had one pair of Spandex trousers!
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There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.
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Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.
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I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.
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When I left the band, what the band did is really their own business. And their career-they got on with it, and I got on with my career.