Bruce Dickinson
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"Paul Bruce Dickinson", known professionally as "Bruce Dickinson", is an English musician, airline pilot, and broadcaster. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the Heavy metal music/heavy metal band Iron Maiden.

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 the New Wave of British Heavy Metal band Samson (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 (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, resulting in Dickinson gaining worldwide fame, and becoming one of the most acclaimed heavy metal vocalists of all time.

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If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

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I don't even think that you can call Iron Maiden 100% real metal. Iron Maiden is beyond that and always has been. That is one of the things that America has always had a problem with, but right now we might be moving to a point where by America may actually understand what Maiden is all about. We'll see.

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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'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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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, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

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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 dreamt for years about making albums and doing world tours-I'd fulfilled all my ambitions in one year.

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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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