Bruce Dickinson

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**Paul Bruce Dickinson** (born 7 August 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, airline pilot, entrepreneur, author, and broadcaster. He is known for his work 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.

Born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Dickinson began his career in music fronting small pub bands in the 1970s while attending school in Sheffield and university in London. In 1979, he joined joined British new wave heavy metal band Samson, with whom he gained some popularity under the stage name "Bruce Bruce" and performed on two studio records. He left Samson in 1981 to join Iron Maiden, replacing Paul Di'Anno, and debuted on their 1982 album *The Number of the Beast*. During his first tenure in the band, they issued a series of US and UK platinum and gold albums in the 1980s.

Dickinson quit Iron Maiden in 1993 (being replaced by Blaze Bayley) to pursue his solo career, which saw him experiment with a wide variety of heavy metal and rock styles. He rejoined the band in 1999, along with guitarist Adrian Smith, with whom he has released five subsequent studio albums. Since his return to Iron Maiden, he issued one further solo record in 2005, *Tyranny of Souls*. His younger cousin, Rob Dickinson, is the former lead singer of British alternative rock band Catherine Wheel, while his son, Austin, fronted the metalcore band Rise to Remain.

Outside his career in music, Dickinson is well known for his wide variety of other pursuits. Most notably, he undertook a career as a commercial pilot for Astraeus Airlines, which led to a number of media-reported ventures such as captaining Iron Maiden's converted charter aeroplane, Ed Force One, during their world tours. Following Astraeus' closure, he created his own aircraft maintenance and pilot training company in 2012, Cardiff Aviation. Dickinson presented his own radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music from 2002 to 2010, and has also hosted television documentaries, authored novels and film scripts, created a successful beer with Robinsons Brewery and competed at fencing internationally.

## Early life

Paul Bruce Dickinson was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** His mother, Sonia, worked part-time in a shoe shop, and his father, Bruce, was a mechanic in the army.Template:Sfnm Dickinson's birth hurried the young couple, then just teenagers, into marriage.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Initially, he was brought up by his grandparents; his grandfather was a coal-face worker at the local colliery and his grandmother was a housewife.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** This is referred to in his song "Born In '58" from the album *Tattooed Millionaire*.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Dickinson started school at Manton Primary in Worksop while his parents moved away to Sheffield.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Soon afterwards, when he was six, he was also despatched to Sheffield,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** where he attended a primary school in Manor Top.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** After six months, his parents decided to move him to a small private school called Sharrow Vale Junior.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Due to constant moving, Dickinson states that this period of his life taught him to be self-reliant as he was unable to make close friends.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Dickinson has a younger sister, professional showjumper Helena Stormanns, who was born in 1963.Template:Sfnm He tried to isolate himself from her as much as he could when he was young, supposedly out of spite because she, unlike him, was a planned pregnancy and birth.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Dickinson's first musical experience was dancing in his grandparents' front room to Chubby Checker's "The Twist", when he still lived with them in Worksop.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The first record Dickinson recalls owning was The Beatles single "She Loves You", which he managed to persuade his grandfather to buy him, which made him more interested in music.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** He tried to play an acoustic guitar belonging to his father, but it blistered his fingers.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

By the time he moved to Sheffield, Dickinson's parents were earning a good living from buying property, refurbishing it and then selling it for a profit.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** As a result, much of Dickinson's childhood was spent living on a building site, until his parents bought a boarding house and a bankrupt garage where his father began selling second-hand cars.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The income from their business success gave them the opportunity to give Dickinson—then 13 years old—a boarding school education and they chose Oundle, a public school in Northamptonshire.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Dickinson was not opposed to moving away from home because he had not built "any real attachment" to his parents, having been raised by his grandparents in Worksop until he was six.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

At Oundle, Dickinson was picked on and routinely bullied by the older boys of Sidney House, the boarding house that he belonged to,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** which he described as "like systematic torture" and meant that he became an outsider.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** His interests at Oundle were often military; he co-founded the school wargames society with Mike Jordan, and he rose to a position of some power in the school's cadet force,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** with which he was allowed to handle live ammunition, which he used to create explosions as booby-traps.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Oundle was where Dickinson became attracted to hard rock, after hearing Deep Purple's "Child in Time" being played in another student's room.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** As a result, the first album he ever bought was Deep Purple's *In Rock*, which created his interest in rock music.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** After *In Rock*, he went on to buy Black Sabbath's debut, Jethro Tull's *Aqualung* and *Tarkus* by Emerson, Lake & Palmer.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Every term, a band would play at the school, the first of these which Dickinson saw was called Wild Turkey, featuring former Jethro Tull bassist Glenn Cornick.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** After that, he saw Van der Graaf Generator and Arthur Brown.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Dickinson initially wanted to play the drums,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** later obtaining a pair of bongo drums from the music room for practice.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** He remembers playing "Let It Be" with his friend Mike Jordan, during which Dickinson discovered his singing voice while encouraging Jordan to sing the high-notes.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Shortly afterwards Dickinson was expelled from Oundle for participating in a prank in which he urinated in the headmaster's dinner.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Returning home to Sheffield in 1976, Dickinson enrolled at King Edward VII School, at which he joined his first band.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** He had overheard two other pupils talking about their band and that they needed a singer and so volunteered immediately.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** They rehearsed in the garage of the drummer's father, and the band were impressed by Dickinson's singing, encouraging him to buy his first microphone.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Their first gig took place at the Broadfield Tavern in Sheffield.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Originally called "Paradox", the band changed their name on Dickinson's suggestion to "Styx", unaware of the American act with the same name.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** They made local newspaper headlines when a steel worker was awoken by their performance and tried to smash the band's drum kit.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Soon afterwards the band split up.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

## University

After leaving school with A-levels in English, History and Economics, Dickinson confessed, "I didn't really know what I wanted to do."**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The first thing he did was join the Territorial Army for six months.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Although he enjoyed his time in the TA, Dickinson realised that it was not a career choice, and so he applied for a place to read history at Queen Mary College, London.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** His parents wanted him in the army, but he told them that he wanted to get a degree first, which acted as his "cover story", and immediately began playing in bands.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

At university, Dickinson got involved in the Entertainments Committee: "one day you'd be a roadie for The Jam, the next you'd be putting up the Stonehenge backdrop for Hawkwind or whatever."**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** In 1977, Dickinson met Paul "Noddy" White, a multi-instrumentalist who owned a PA and other equipment, with whom Dickinson, along with drummer Steve Jones, would form a band together called Speed.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** According to Dickinson, the band was called Speed because of the way in which they played, rather than a reference to drug-taking.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** In Speed, Dickinson began writing his own material after White taught him how to play three chords on the guitar.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Although Speed would play several gigs at the Green Man pub in Plumstead, the band did not last long, but it encouraged Dickinson to continue to work towards being a musician.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Dickinson spotted an advertisement in *Melody Maker* with the caption "Singer wanted for recording project" and replied immediately.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** He recorded a demo tape and sent it with a note which read: "By the way, if you think the singing's crap, there's some John Cleese stuff recorded on the other side you might find amusing."**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** They liked what they heard and invited Dickinson down to the studio to make "Dracula", the first song he would ever record, with a band called "Shots",**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** formed by two brothers, Phil and Doug Siviter.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The song would later appear on the second disc of *The Best of Bruce Dickinson* compilation. The brothers were impressed with Dickinson's vocal abilities and asked him to join their group.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Dickinson played pubs with Shots on a regular basis to small audiences.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** One particular night, Dickinson suddenly stopped in the middle of a song and started interviewing a man in the audience, heckling for not paying enough attention.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** He got such a good response he started doing it every night until it became a regular routine used to catch the audience's attention. Dickinson states that this experience taught him how to be a frontman.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

The next step in Dickinson's career was taken in a pub called the Prince of Wales in Gravesend, Kent, where Shots were playing regularly, when Barry Graham ("Thunderstick") and Paul Samson paid a visit.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Impressed with his stage-act, they talked with Dickinson afterwards and invited him to be their new singer.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Dickinson agreed to join their band, Samson, but only once he'd finished taking his History finals two weeks later.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Until that point, he had been neglecting his University education.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** As a result, the University had tried to kick him out for failing his Second Year exams and not paying his accommodation fees, but he was saved because of his role as Entertainments Officer.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** After writing 6 months' worth of essays in the space of two weeks and some last minute cramming for his exams, Dickinson achieved a 2:2.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

On 19 July 2011, Dickinson was presented with an honorary music doctorate from his alma mater, in honour of his contribution to the music industry.Template:Sfnm

## Samson: 1979–1981

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After meeting Paul Samson and Barry Purkis at the Prince of Wales, and while still undertaking his final university exams, Dickinson joined Samson onstage at Bishop's Stortford to perform one of their songs, "Rock Me Baby", cementing his role as their new lead vocalist.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

The band had already released their debut album, *Survivors*, in 1979 on an independent label, two months before Dickinson joined.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Immediately following the completion of his University work, he met up with the band at Greenwich's Wood Wharf studios to learn the *Survivors* album.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Although the tracks did not suit his vocal style,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** the band soon wrote the majority of the following *Head On* album in their earliest rehearsal sessions,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** some of which were immediately incorporated into their live set.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

It was during these early rehearsals that the nickname "Bruce Bruce" came about, derived from Monty Python's "Bruces sketch".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The name became very tiresome as the band's management continually wrote dud cheques, made payable to "Bruce Bruce", as a joke.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Dickinson later commented that he did not like it but considered it "a sort of stage name" and accepted it.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Dickinson was dismayed to learn that not all rock performers were "great artists"; he felt that some, such as Samson, were only interested in women, drugs and alcohol, which he was unable to relate to.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Although he had smoked joints before,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Dickinson discovered that it was impossible to communicate with other band members if he was sober, deciding that it was "the price that had to be paid".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

While fronting the band, Dickinson also came across Iron Maiden for the first time, who were supporting Samson at the Music Machine in 1980.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** As Dickinson recalls; "I was watching them, and they were good, really fucking good, and at that moment, I remember thinking, 'I wanna fucking sing for that band. In fact, I'm *going* to sing for that band! I *know* I'm going to sing for that band!' ... I just thought, 'This is really me. Not Samson.'"**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Dickinson remained in the band for another year, recording two studio albums with them—*Head On* and *Shock Tactics*.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** However, Samson soon ran into difficulties with their record label, Gem, who went out of business and failed to finance their European tour in support of Iron Maiden.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The band were turned over to RCA, which began neglecting the group, and so they promptly fired their management team and the resulting injunction meant that their equipment was reclaimed and they could not be paid for their concert performances.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The band's last gig was at Reading Festival, after which Dickinson was approached by Iron Maiden's manager, Rod Smallwood, who asked him to audition to be their new lead vocalist.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

### Beginnings and success: 1981–1985

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Dickinson went to audition for Iron Maiden at a rehearsal room in Hackney in September 1981 and immediately discovered that this was a much more professional operation than he was used to with Samson.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** In the practice rooms, the band played through "Prowler", "Sanctuary", "Running Free" and "Remember Tomorrow", before asking Dickinson to sing the same songs again in a recording studio, and he was immediately inducted into the group.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Iron Maiden had a strict and organised routine that suited the band's writing style, which Dickinson described as a "time table".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** After a few gigs, they began writing new material for their third album, *The Number of the Beast*, released in 1982. In the wake of Samson's contractual problems, Dickinson could not legally be credited on any of the record's songs,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** having to make, what he called, a "moral contribution", later revealing that he had contributed to "The Prisoner", "Children of the Damned" and "Run to the Hills".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** In the documentary *12 Wasted Years*, manager Rod Smallwood refers to "The Prisoner" as being co-written by Dickinson and Adrian Smith. The album was a major success, topping the UK charts,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and earning platinum status in the UK and the US.Template:Sfnm Following the release, the band embarked on a supporting tour around the globe.
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On the following albums, 1983's *Piece of Mind* and 1984's *Powerslave*, Steve Harris's song-writing monopoly was pushed aside in favour of other members' ideas, with Dickinson contributing to a number of tracks, including the singles "Flight of Icarus" and "2 Minutes to Midnight".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Throughout the World Slavery Tour, as part of the new theatrical elements incorporated into the band's stage-show, Dickinson wore a feathered mask during "Powerslave".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** This was the band's longest tour to date, during which Dickinson considered going home mid-tour, due to the high number of shows.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Iron Maiden's management were continually adding dates, until Dickinson demanded that they stop or he would leave the group.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

### Growing tensions and departure: 1986–1993

After a six-month break, which Dickinson mostly spent practising fencing,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Iron Maiden began writing their next album, *Somewhere in Time*. Dickinson was disappointed with the effort as he felt that the band needed a more dramatic stylistic departure from past records to remain relevant, despite its introduction of synthesised bass and guitars.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** He has no writing credits on the release, as his material, based on his own suggestion that the album should be more acoustic-focused, was rejected by the rest of the band.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Steve Harris, on the other hand, stated that his material was rejected because it was not good enough, and that Dickinson "was probably more burnt out than anyone at the end of the last tour".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

After a subsequent tour, Iron Maiden started working on their next studio effort, *Seventh Son of a Seventh Son*, which featured more progressive rock elements than the band's previous records.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Although it became their second release to top the UK charts,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** it was also Dickinson's first album with the band that did not achieve platinum status in the US.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Unlike *Somewhere in Time*, Dickinson was much more enthusiastic about this album due to its concept and has several song-writing credits.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** After the following tour in 1988, the band decided to take a year off.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**
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During the next album's writing stage, Adrian Smith left Iron Maiden, and was replaced by Janick Gers. Iron Maiden's eighth studio release, 1990's *No Prayer for the Dying*, had a raw sound that, according to AllMusic, did not "hold up well" compared to past efforts,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** as it was recorded in a barn which Steve Harris owned, with a mobile studio owned by the Rolling Stones.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The record featured Dickinson's "Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter", originally composed for a film soundtrack, which despite receiving a Golden Raspberry Award for worst original song in 1989, became the band's first and only single to top the UK Singles Chart.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** By 1992, Harris had converted his barn into a proper studio, and the new album, *Fear of the Dark*, was recorded there,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** resulting in a better overall sound than *No Prayer for the Dying*,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** although Dickinson still claims it had limitations due to its size.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

After the Fear of the Dark Tour, Dickinson decided to leave Iron Maiden to concentrate on his solo career.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** At that point the band had already booked a following tour in 1993, which Dickinson did not enjoy. Throughout the tour, Dickinson drew a lot of criticism from his bandmates, with Steve Harris in particular saying, "I really wanted to kill him."**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** According to Harris, Dickinson would only perform when the press was there,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** whereas at other concerts he would only mumble his way through songs.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Dickinson has since denied the accusations that he was deliberately under-performing, arguing that it was impossible to give a decent performance some nights because of the atmosphere.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** His last performance with the band on 28 August 1993 was filmed by the BBC at Pinewood Studios and released as a live video the following year, entitled *Raising Hell*.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

### Return: 1999–present

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Along with Adrian Smith, Dickinson rejoined Iron Maiden in 1999 with Janick Gers remaining in the band, after he was approached by manager Rod Smallwood.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Smallwood also spoke to Steve Harris about Dickinson's return, who initially had reservations about the prospect, but soon came round to the idea, deliberating that they knew of his abilities and that it was a case of "better the devil you know".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Harris and Dickinson agreed to meet at Smallwood's home in Brighton in January 1999 for the first conversation they would have with each other since 1993.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Although both men were nervous about the encounter, upon seeing each other the tension immediately dissipated and both agreed that Dickinson should return to the group.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

After embarking on a small tour, the band set about recording *Brave New World*, their first studio album with Dickinson since 1992. Dickinson insisted that they find a replacement for the now retired Martin Birch, the band's regular producer, and record in a different studio than the one in which they made *No Prayer for the Dying* and *Fear of the Dark*, to which Harris agreed.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The album was recorded at Guillaume Tell Studios, Paris with producer Kevin Shirley,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** after which Iron Maiden undertook a supporting tour culminating with a performance at the Rock in Rio festival before a crowd of 250,000.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

In 2003 they recorded and released *Dance of Death* at London's SARM Studios with Kevin Shirley, now the band's new regular producer.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** After two further stints on the road (Dance of Death World Tour and Eddie Rips Up the World Tour) Iron Maiden returned to SARM in 2006 to record their next studio album, *A Matter of Life and Death*,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and embarked on a supporting tour. In 2008 and 2009, the band set out on the Somewhere Back in Time World Tour,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** which has since been described as "groundbreaking"**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** for its use of *Ed Force One*, the band's customised Boeing 757, flown by Dickinson himself,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and led to the documentary film *Iron Maiden: Flight 666*, which had a limited cinema release in April 2009.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Iron Maiden held another world tour in 2010 and 2011 in support of *The Final Frontier*,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** their first album recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas since 1986's *Somewhere in Time*,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and which peaked at No. 1 in 28 countries.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

In September 2014, Iron Maiden began recording their sixteenth studio album, *The Book of Souls*, at Guillaume Tell Studios, Paris.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The release features two songs written solely by Dickinson for the first time since *Powerslave*, "If Eternity Should Fail" and "Empire of the Clouds",**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** the former originally penned for a possible solo record.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** "Empire of the Clouds" is notable for being the band's longest ever song, at over 18 minutes in length,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and features Dickinson on piano for the first time, which is how the song was written.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The band toured the album in 2016, during which Dickinson once again piloted the band's private plane, Ed Force One (now a Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet).**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

#### Ozzfest incident

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In 2005, Iron Maiden co-headlined the US festival tour, Ozzfest, with Black Sabbath. Lead singer Ozzy Osbourne's wife, Sharon, encouraged family friends and members of other bands to sabotage Iron Maiden's last performance at Hyundai Pavilion in San Bernardino, California, on 20 August,Template:Sfnm in an attack which Rod Smallwood criticised as "vile, dangerous, criminal and cowardly", as well as disrespectful to fans who had paid to see the band perform "a full unhindered performance".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Osbourne ordered interference with the band's PA, delayed the entrance of Eddie, the band's mascot,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and encouraged members of the Osbourne camp to throw eggs, lighters and bottle tops from the front of the audience.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** According to Dickinson, the attack was in response to his "disparaging remarks about reality-TV shows that she took personally",**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** although *The Guardian* reported that he slated the Osbournes' reality series and accused Ozzy Osbourne of using a teleprompter.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Dickinson has since denied making comments against Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** but admitted that he criticised Ozzfest throughout the tour, attacking their "corporate" seating layout and saying, "Most of the bands are there because they paid to be there."**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Following the concert at San Bernardino, Osbourne released a further statement which accused Dickinson of making several anti-American comments,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** of which *Classic Rock* stated that "nobody can present any cast-iron evidence".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** In addition, Osbourne claimed that the flag-waving during "The Trooper" was disrespectful to American troops,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** at the time fighting alongside the British in Iraq, even though Dickinson had always held a Union Flag during the song, being based on the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** It was also reported that Steve Harris had spoken to Ozzy Osbourne in San Bernardino, apologising for Dickinson's comments,Template:Sfnm which Harris denies, stating that his words had been "twisted".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

## Solo career

In early 1989, Zomba asked Dickinson to produce a track for the movie *A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child*,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** providing a budget, a studio, and a producer, Chris Tsangarides. Dickinson took up the opportunity and called an old friend of his, former Gillan guitarist, Janick Gers, and, shortly after meeting up, they had "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter" ready for the studio,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** then recorded with the assistance of bassist Andy Carr, and drummer Fabio del Rio.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** "I wrote it in about three minutes", states Dickinson, "I don't know where the title 'Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter' came from, but it just popped into my head. I thought, 'Bloody hell, straight out of AC/DC!' And I thought, '*Nightmare on Elm Street*. Yeah, that'll do.'**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Impressed with the results, Zomba asked Dickinson if he was willing to record a whole album as well.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** With the same line-up and producer, Dickinson's solo debut, *Tattooed Millionaire*, was written and recorded within two weeks, and released in May 1990,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** followed by a supporting tour.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Later that year, Dickinson participated on a re-recording of Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water", as part of the humanitarian effort *Rock Aid Armenia*.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Backed by the band Skin, he produced a cover version of Alice Cooper's "Elected", along with Rowan Atkinson (in character as Mr. Bean), which was used in 1992 for Comic Relief,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and five years later, on *Bean Soundtrack*.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

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For his second solo effort, Dickinson received the collaboration of American producer, Keith Olsen, and, while working on the record in LA, decided to leave Iron Maiden.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Unhappy with the direction he was taking with Olsen, Dickinson began working with Tribe of Gypsies guitarist Roy Z and started the album again from scratch.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** *Balls to Picasso* was recorded with Tribe of Gypsies as the backing band,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and was released in 1994. That same year, Dickinson recorded a cover version of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" with the band Godspeed for Black Sabbath's tribute album *Nativity in Black*.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Tribe of Gypsies departed to work on their own material and Dickinson tracked down another band, including his new writing partner and guitarist, Alex Dickson.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** While touring with this new outfit in 1994, Dickinson performed in Sarajevo, then under siege during the Bosnian War; a documentary film based on the concert, entitled *Scream For Me Sarajevo*, completed filming in December 2015.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

After the *Balls to Picasso* supporting tour finished, he started working on a new studio record, *Skunkworks*. Dickinson decided that *Skunkworks* would be the title of the band as well, but the record company refused to release the album without his name on the cover.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Dickinson hired producer Jack Endino, most noted for producing the first Nirvana album. The "Skunkworks" entity ceased to be when the tour ended. "I was devastated by the *Skunkworks* thing", stated Dickinson, "*Skunkworks* was a record which I tore myself apart to make and nobody seemed to give a shit."**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

After a short period of inactivity, Dickinson once again teamed up with Roy Z and Tribe of Gypsies to record his next album, *Accident of Birth*; "It was actually Roy that dragged me back into some assemblance, because he called up and he said, 'Listen, I've got some stuff and it's like a metal record.' And I wasn't thrilled, I wasn't really sure that I had anything to offer ... Then he played me some backing-tracks he'd done for what was to become *Accident of Birth* down the phone and I thought 'There is something there.'"**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Former Iron Maiden guitarist, Adrian Smith, was asked to guest on the record, but remained as a full-time member of Dickinson's solo outfit.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The album marked a return to heavy metal for Dickinson, with Sputnikmusic remarking, "The album's heavy feel is very satisfying, and definitely fills that void left by Maiden during the 90's."**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The follow-up, *The Chemical Wedding*, was a semi-concept album on alchemy, which drew inspiration from William Blake's writings; with some songs, such as "Book of Thel", having the same title as some of his poems, and the cover artwork featuring one of his paintings.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** The record was even more successful than its predecessor, with Sputnikmusic commenting, "Bruce had shattered all expectations to create an album that might even be better than the previous one."**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** During *The Chemical Wedding'*s supporting tour, the live album, *Scream for Me Brazil* was recorded in São Paulo, after which Dickinson and Smith returned to Iron Maiden in February 1999.

In 2000, Dickinson performed vocals on the song, "Into the Black Hole", for Ayreon's *Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator*.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Later that year, he collaborated with Judas Priest's front-man, Rob Halford, recording, "The One You Love to Hate", for Halford's debut, *Resurrection*.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** A compilation, entitled *The Best of Bruce Dickinson*, was released in late 2001, including two new songs and a bonus disc of rarities.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** His latest solo album, *Tyranny of Souls* was released in May 2005. This time the song-writing was all split between Roy Z and Dickinson and many songs were composed by Z sending recordings of riffs to Dickinson while he was on tour with Iron Maiden.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** On 21 June 2005, Dickinson's complete solo discography was re-released, featuring bonus discs with rare and remastered tracks. That same year, Dickinson contributed to the song, "Beast in the Light", from Tribuzy's album, *Execution*, and their subsequent live album.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** A three-DVD box set, entitled *Anthology*, was released on 19 June 2006, containing concerts and promo videos from throughout his solo career, as well as an old Samson video, entitled "Biceps of Steel".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

A fan of the Monty Python comedy troupe, in 2009 Dickinson appeared in *Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut)*. He also recorded a new version of the theme song from *Monty Python's Life of Brian* for the sixth and final episode. In December 2017, Dickinson said that he has tentative plans for his next solo album to be "a whole concept album", with the title being *If Eternity Should Fail*, the same song name from Iron Maiden's album *The Book of Souls*, in which he confirmed that it was originally penned as a solo track, "So if I did do another solo album, which I think I will, I might just stick to my original plan and have that as the title track. I mean, I did write it – it was the first track that I wrote for it. So, yeah, I'd probably still include that song. But it would be… the feel would be slightly different – not very much, though – from the Maiden version."

## Personal life

Dickinson was first married to Jane in 1983,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** from whom he was divorced in 1987.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** He has three children with his second wife, Paddy Bowden: Austin (born September 23, 1990), Griffin (born 1992), and Kia (born 1994).**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** All three were born in Chiswick, London,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** where Dickinson has lived since 1981.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Austin Dickinson was the lead singer in metalcore band Rise to Remain**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** until their break-up in 2015, at which point he formed a new alternative metal group, As Lions.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Griffin Dickinson, who previously worked as a stage carpenter for Iron Maiden during their tours,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** is the vocalist in melodic hardcore band SHVPES (formerly known as Cytota).Template:Sfnm Dickinson's cousin, Rob Dickinson, was the lead singer of British alternative rock band Catherine Wheel and founded Singer Vehicle Design who specialise in upgrading classic Porsche 911s.Template:Sfnm

In an interview with Sarah Montague for BBC's *HARDtalk* in 2012, Dickinson agreed with Montague's description of himself as a conservative and a eurosceptic.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

In 2015, Dickinson underwent seven weeks of chemotherapy and radiation therapy for a cancerous tumour found at the back of his tongue.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Dickinson's medical team expected him to make a full recovery as the tumour was discovered in the early stages.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** On 15 May, Dickinson was given the all-clear by his specialists.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

### Honours

In 2019, Dickinson was made an honorary citizen of Sarajevo and received the city's prestigious Sixth April Award for his efforts in performing under siege in 1994. According to the city's mayor, it was his arrival in Sarajevo that "was one of those moments that made us...realize that we will survive, that the city of Sarajevo will survive, that Bosnia and Herzegovina will survive". Dickinson is also credited as a producer on the critically acclaimed 2016 documentary "Scream for Me Sarajevo", which chronicles this performance and his return to Sarajevo.

On 6 January 2020, Dickinson was made an Honorary Group Captain of 601 (County of London) Squadron RAF.

## Other work

Dickinson's interests and non-musical activities include writing, broadcasting, fencing (at which he has competed internationally, placing 7th in Great Britain,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and has founded a fencing equipment company under the brand name "Duellist"),Template:Sfnm beer brewing and aviation. Due to the wide variety of Dickinson's pursuits, *Intelligent Life* named him as a living example of a polymath in 2009.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

### Aviation and entrepreneurship

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Dickinson learned to fly recreationally in Florida in the 1990s**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and now holds an airline transport pilot's licence. He regularly flew Boeing 757s in his role as captain for the now-defunct UK charter airline Astraeus,Template:Sfnm which, from 16 September 2010, employed him as Marketing Director.Template:Sfnm One of his key roles in that position was to promote Astraeus' services by increasing their number of videos,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** leading to the UK Civil Aviation Authority releasing a video featuring Dickinson on aircraft loading safety in June 2011.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Following Astraeus' closure on 21 November 2011, Dickinson branched into entrepreneurship when he launched Cardiff Aviation Ltd on 1 May 2012, an aircraft maintenance business based at the Twin Peaks Hangar in St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** According to *The Wall Street Journal*, in January 2013 Cardiff Aviation had created 40 jobs and hoped to have over a hundred personnel by the summer of 2013.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** In June 2013, *The Daily Telegraph* reported that the business had expanded to between 60 and 70 employees and are in discussions to set up their own airline.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** In August 2015, Cardiff Aviation signed a deal to provide airline support to Air Djibouti,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** for whom Dickinson piloted their maiden flight the following year, a Boeing 737 from Cardiff to Djibouti.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** As a result of his ventures in business, he has delivered keynote speeches at events around the globe, including Queen Mary University of London's Innovation Showcase in November 2012,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Connect2Business, Stockholm in March 2013,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Aviation Week's MRO Europe Conference, London in October 2015**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and "Blog Now, Live Forever", Mumbai in October 2015.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

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His role as a pilot has led to some high-profile flights, which include returning a group of British RAF pilots from Afghanistan in 2008,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** 200 UK citizens from Lebanon during the Israel/Hezbollah conflict in 2006,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and 180 stranded holiday makers from Egypt following the collapse of XL Airways UK in September 2008.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** In addition, he flew Rangers F.C. and Liverpool F.C. to away matches in Israel and Italy in 2007 and 2010 respectively.Template:Sfnm

For the 2008–09 "Somewhere Back in Time World Tour", he piloted Iron Maiden's chartered Boeing 757, dubbed "Ed Force One", specially converted to carry the band's equipment between continents,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** which subsequently led to a documentary film, *Iron Maiden: Flight 666*.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Dickinson flew "Ed Force One" again for "The Final Frontier World Tour" in 2011.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** For the 2016 The Book of Souls World Tour, the band upgraded to a Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet, which meant that Dickinson had to undertake type conversion to fly the aircraft.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** In 2014, Dickinson purchased a Fokker Dr.I triplane replica G-CDXR and joined the Great War Display Team, which re-enacts First World War air battles at airshows across the UK.Template:Sfnm

### Radio and TV

Dickinson presented *Bruce Dickinson's Friday Rock Show* on BBC radio station 6 Music from 2002 to 2010. In March 2010, the BBC announced that, after over eight years, Dickinson's show was to be axed.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** His final broadcast was on 28 May 2010, with the regular format abandoned in favour of a personal and musical tribute to the recently deceased Ronnie James Dio. Dickinson scorned the BBC executives for the cancellation, playing the Johnny Paycheck version of "Take This Job and Shove It".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** In addition to his show on 6 Music, Dickinson also hosted a series entitled *Masters of Rock* on BBC Radio 2 from 2003 to 2007.Template:Sfnm Dickinson's catalogue of 6 Music programmes were acquired in 2014 by TeamRock radio, who began re-broadcasting episodes in December.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

In 2005, Dickinson hosted a 5-part historical TV series about aviation, *Flying Heavy Metal*, which was shown on the Discovery Channel, and later on Discovery Turbo in the UK.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** He was a guest on an episode of the Military Channel's *The Greatest Ever*, where he drove a Russian T-34 tank. In 2006, Dickinson presented a documentary for Sky One entitled *Inside Spontaneous Human Combustion with Bruce Dickinson*, in which he investigated the phenomenon by enlisting the help of several experts and performing various experiments to determine its possible cause.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Other television appearances include guesting on quiz shows such as *Never Mind the Buzzcocks* and the short-lived *Space Cadets*, as well as the chat show *Clarkson*, hosted by Jeremy Clarkson.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Dickinson has also appeared in a BBC series called *The Paradise Club*, undertaking the role of a musician named Jake Skinner.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** On 27 July 2012, Dickinson spent a day being filmed as a guest star for a season four episode of *Ice Pilots NWT*, in which he flew a Douglas DC-3 and took part in "touch-and-go drills" in a Douglas DC-4 with Buffalo Airways.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

### Writing

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During a 1986–1987 Iron Maiden tour, and in the wake of a divorce, Dickinson started writing his first book.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Inspired by the novels of Tom Sharpe, in addition to Biggles and *Penthouse*, he created *The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace*,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** which *Kerrang!* describes as "a satirical swipe at fetishism among the upper classes",**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and whose title character is a "semi-transvestite" British land owner.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Following its completion, Dickinson approached Sidgwick & Jackson, who, according to Dickinson, agreed to publish the book before reading it based on Iron Maiden's album sales alone.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Released in 1990 (Template:ISBN), the novel sold more than 40,000 copies almost immediately.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Due to the high demand, Sidgwick & Jackson asked Dickinson to produce a sequel,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** which became 1992's *The Missionary Position* (Template:ISBN), a satire of televangelism.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** No further additions to the series have been published, although Dickinson did write the first 60 pages to a prequel, set during "Lord Iffy's schooldays", which he "just thought was rubbish and ripped it all up. I didn't think it was funny."**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Dickinson has turned his hand to scriptwriting, co-authoring *Chemical Wedding* with director Julian Doyle. The film, in which Dickinson played a few small cameo roles and composed the soundtrack, was released in 2008 and starred Simon Callow.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

On 15 October 2015, HarperCollins and Dey Street announced that they would publish Dickinson's memoirs.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** *What Does This Button Do?***Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** was released on 19 October 2017.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

### Beer

In 2013, Iron Maiden collaborated with Robinsons Brewery in Stockport, England to create Trooper, a 4.8% cask/4.7% bottled ale whose recipe Dickinson formulated with head brewer Martyn Weeks.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** As of May 2014, the beer has sold 2.5 million pints in 40 countries, making it Robinsons' most successful export.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Following Trooper's success, Dickinson, a fan of traditional English cask beer, stated that he intends to develop more beers in the future, although new products will be "under the umbrella of Trooper and not Iron Maiden [as] Trooper has taken on a life of its own. People drink it because they like the beer, not because they are Maiden fans."**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Additional beers have included Trooper Red 'N' Black Porter (5.8 per cent ABV), Trooper Hallowed (6.0 per cent ABV), and a limited edition "666" (at 6.66 per cent ABV).

## Singing style and stage performance

Although Dickinson never received formal training, he still possesses a wide vocal range which was trademarked by his quasi-operatic tenor.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Along with Ronnie James Dio and Rob Halford, Dickinson is one of the pioneers of the operatic vocal style later to be adopted by power metal vocalists and regularly appears near the top in lists of the greatest rock vocalists/front-men of all time.Template:Sfnm Dickinson says that his style was influenced primarily by Arthur Brown, Peter Hammill (Van der Graaf Generator), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) and Ian Gillan (Deep Purple).**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

Dickinson's singing varied notably in the 1990s in the recording of albums such as *No Prayer for the Dying*, *Fear of the Dark* and his first solo work *Tattooed Millionaire*, making use of a much more raspy and unpolished sound,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** befitting their stripped down style.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** Since returning to Iron Maiden in 1999, his singing style has returned to much like it was in the 1980s,**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** though his voice has lowered with age.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** According to a report published in the *Daily Mirror*, Dickinson has an estimated vocal range of 4.25 octaves.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** His voice led to the nickname "The Air Raid Siren", which *Billboard* states is "due to the ferocious power of his singing",**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** although Dickinson claims it actually originated from a fan complaint.**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

In addition to his vocal ability, Dickinson is known for his energetic stage performances, which he delivers consistently despite his age.Template:Sfnm He considers including the audience "the essence of the Maiden experience" and that his role is to "shrink the venue ... to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** To achieve this, Dickinson insists on gaining eye contact with audience members**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.** and urges them to join in with the phrase "scream for me" (followed by the concert's location).Template:Sfnm He is critical of performers who do not connect with their fans, particularly those who "[hide] behind the amps" and use an autocue, remarking that "people pay good money and [they] can't even remember the sodding words".**Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor\_id\_list' not found.**

## Discography

*Main article: Iron Maiden discography** *The Number of the Beast* (1982)
* *Piece of Mind* (1983)
* *Powerslave* (1984)
* *Somewhere in Time* (1986)
* *Seventh Son of a Seventh Son* (1988)
* *No Prayer for the Dying* (1990)
* *Fear of the Dark* (1992)
* *Brave New World* (2000)
* *Dance of Death* (2003)
* *A Matter of Life and Death* (2006)
* *The Final Frontier* (2010)
* *The Book of Souls* (2015)

*Main article: Bruce Dickinson discography** *Tattooed Millionaire* (1990)
* *Balls to Picasso* (1994)
* *Skunkworks* (1996)
* *Accident of Birth* (1997)
* *The Chemical Wedding* (1998)
* *Tyranny of Souls* (2005)

Samson* *Survivors* Template:Ref (1979)
* *Head On* (1980)
* *Shock Tactics* (1981)
* *Live at Reading 1981* (1990)

Template:Note **\*** Dickinson appeared on the album's re-issue only, as the original version was completed before he joined the band.

## Tours

* 1990: *Tattooed Millionaire Tour*
* 1994-1995: *Balls to Picasso Tour*
* 1996: *Skunkworks Tour*
* 1997: *Accident of Birth Tour*
* 1998-1999: *The Chemical Wedding Tour*
* 2002: *Airraid over Europe Tour*

## Notes

1. ↑ "Monty Python reunite to tell life stories". Retrieved on 22 August 2019.
2. ↑ "IRON MAIDEN Singer BRUCE DICKINSON's Next Solo Album Will 'Probably' Include Reworked Version Of 'If Eternity Should Fail'", *Blabbermouth.net* (8 December 2017). Retrieved on 8 December 2017.
3. ↑ Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson made honorary citizen of Bosnia's capital
4. ↑ Scream for Me Sarajevo
5. ↑ “Iron Maiden Lead Singer Made Honorary Group Captain RAF”. Forces.net. Retrieved 8 January 2020
6. ↑ *The Globe and Mail*
7. ↑ The British Guild of Beer Writers
8. ↑ *Rolling Stone*

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