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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I dreamt for years about making albums and doing world tours-I'd fulfilled all my ambitions in one year.
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I was asked to sign a bunny, a real one! I am not an aficionado of bunnies.
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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'll be arriving at the last possible minute and walking on stage raging and pillaging and then disappearing immediately afterwards.
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I only ever had one pair of Spandex trousers!
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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'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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It is only because of my own powers that I survived the attack at all,
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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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Well, if it's the audience is a bit lagging we kick them in the nuts until they wake up!
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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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We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.
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If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.