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
band business left
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.
thinking great-music manson
I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
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.
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.
aviation wales south
South Wales is a hub of aviation.
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.'
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.
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.
crazy philosophy gone
Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no.
looks band internet
With the Internet, bands can come and go every five minutes and the music looks disposable.
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.
engineering shelves ask-me
Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.
iron quitting maidens
Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.