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
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.
football trying world
My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
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.
dream expression years
I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
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.
thinking great-music manson
I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
guy influence arthur
A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
pounds want aviation
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
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.
engineering shelves ask-me
Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.
aviation wales south
South Wales is a hub of aviation.