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
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.
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.
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Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller.
years two voice
Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.
forever lasts nothing-lasts-forever
Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change
aficionado asked sign
I was asked to sign a bunny, a real one! I am not an aficionado of bunnies.
attracted fencing form romance seemed
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.
pair
I only ever had one pair of Spandex trousers!
love performing
I love performing on the stage, but I don't like being famous-I just don't see the point, it just cheapens everything.
attempt bit broken enjoyed happy meaning people reading reason trying wonder word
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.
choose encouragement english-musician gives human optimism people race tremendous
That gives me tremendous encouragement and optimism for the human race in general, that people choose to go off and do their own things.
attack powers survived
It is only because of my own powers that I survived the attack at all,
alice cartoon character fantastic focused loves successful therefore
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.