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
mcdonalds going-for-it salary
I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it.
giving training helping
I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
touring solo
I'm not going to do any more solo touring.
reading festivals tents
I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!
iron long records
A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.
teenage math years
In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.
kings philosophical men
King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists.
crazy philosophy gone
Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.
guy influence arthur
A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
cutting simple shoes
When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.
looks band internet
With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.
blow labels band
Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band.
groundhog-day determined regimes
If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
break english-musician happening huge maiden record recording taking
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.