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Bruce Dickinson
Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English musician who is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Dickinson has performed in the band across two stints, from 1981 to 1993 and from 1999 to the present day. He is known for his wide-ranging operatic vocal style and energetic stage presence.
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Born 7 August 1958 · Q190151
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Obs that, despite residing mainly in France, he supported Brexit and voted for the UK to leave the EU during the 2016 referendum. In 2021, after the Withdrawal Agreement entered into force, Dickinson said he was angry that British musicians and performers were restricted from free travel through Europe. In 2015, Dickinson underwent seven weeks of chemotherapy and radiation therapy for a cancerous tumour found at the back of his tongue. Dickinson
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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. The album was recorded at Guillaume Tell Studios, Paris with producer Kevin Shirley, after which Iron Maiden undertook a supporting tour culminating with a performance at the Rock in Rio festival before a crowd of 250,000. In 2003, they recorded and released Dance of Death at London
2026· 1 entry
2025· 10 entries
Published video “LIVE DE NATAL - THE BEAST EXPERIENCE 2025”.
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Published video “Convite Live de Natal - The Beast Experience”.
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Published video “Iron Maiden - Moonchild Cover by Raphael Mendes #shorts”.
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Published video “🇪🇺EUROPEAN TOUR 2026🇪🇺”.
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Released album “More Balls to Picasso”.
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Published video “Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon | A tribute to Ozzy Osbourne R.I.P #shorts #ozzyosbourne”.
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Published video “What if Bruce Dickinson sang for @RedDevilVortex - The Last Fight #shorts”.
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Published video “¡Invitación para shows en ESPAÑA! 🇪🇸 #shorts #raphaelmendes”.
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Published video “Vou fazer meus primeiros shows na EUROPA! - ESPANHA”.
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Published video “Live in my Home Studio #10 - LIVE DE ANIVERSÁRIO - ROGER UCHÔAS PIETRINI”.
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2024· 5 entries
The Guardian: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? The list goes on and on … ’
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The Guardian: Bruce Dickinson review – metal’s charismatic star indulges his goofy side
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Released album “The Mandrake Project”.
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Dickinson was made an honorary citizen of Curitiba City, Brazil
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Dickinson guessed that he has roughly 7,500 hours of total flight time
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2023· 5 entries
Released ep “Deep Cuts”.
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Released ep “Scream for Me (Live)”.
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Released ep “Unplugged and Acoustic”.
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Released album “Tears of the Dragon - The Hits”.
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Dickinson created a Trooper Progressive Lager together with the German craft beer brewery Crew Republic
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2022· 1 entry
Dickinson won a silver medal in the European fencing championships, veteran category
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2021· 1 entry
After the Withdrawal Agreement entered into force, Dickinson said he was angry that British musicians and performers were restricted from free travel through Europe
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2020· 1 entry
It was reported that he and Bowden had separated earlier after almost 30 years of marriage
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2019· 3 entries
Released album “What Does This Button Do?”.
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Dickinson was also presented with an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy by the University of Helsinki
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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
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2018· 4 entries
Released album “Scream for Me Sarajevo: Music from the Motion Picture”.
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Dickinson said in a 2018 interview with French magazine L'Obs that, despite residing mainly in France, he supported Brexit and voted for the UK to leave the EU during the 2016 referendum.
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The band embarked on the Legacy of the Beast World Tour which lasted all the way till 2022
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“Obs that, despite residing mainly in France, he supported Brexit and voted for the UK to leave the EU during the 2016 referendum. In 2021, after the Withdrawal Agreement entered into force, Dickinson said he was angry that British musicians and performers were restricted from free travel through Europe. In 2015, Dickinson underwent seven weeks of chemotherapy and radiation therapy for a cancerous tumour found at the back of his tongue. Dickinson”
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2017· 2 entries
Released album “Soloworks 1990 - 2005”.
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The Guardian: Bruce Dickinson webchat – your questions answered on supergroups, sex scenes and comic books
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2016· 1 entry
During which Dickinson once again piloted the band's private plane, Ed Force One (now a Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet)
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2015· 5 entries
The Guardian: Bruce Dickinson: ‘Hell would freeze over before I'd stop performing’
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The Guardian: Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson sells private jets in Harrods
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In 2015, Dickinson underwent seven weeks of chemotherapy and radiation therapy for a cancerous tumour found at the back of his tongue.
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Dickinson underwent seven weeks of chemotherapy and radiation therapy for a cancerous tumour found at the back of his tongue
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At which point he formed the alternative metal group As Lions
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2014· 2 entries
Dickinson purchased a Fokker Dr
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By TeamRock radio, who began re-broadcasting episodes in December
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2013· 2 entries
Had an unofficial match with Norwegian Olympic silver medalist Bartosz Piasecki
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Iron Maiden collaborated with Robinsons Brewery in Stockport to create Trooper, a 4
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2012· 4 entries
The Guardian: Should you be tweeting at gigs? Jack White and Bruce Dickinson think not ...
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The Guardian: Pass notes, No 3,169: Bruce Dickinson
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Dickinson agreed that he is a conservative and a Eurosceptic
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Created his own aircraft maintenance and pilot training company, Cardiff Aviation
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2011· 1 entry
The Guardian: Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson aims to resurrect UK airline
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2010· 1 entry
And 2011 in support of The Final Frontier, their first album recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas since 1986's Somewhere in Time, and which peaked at No
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2009· 7 entries
Released album “Covers”.
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Dickinson appeared in Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut)
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Released album “Ultra Rare Traxx Vol. 2”.
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Released album “Ultra Rare Traxx Vol. 1”.
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Released album “Unpublished 2”.
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Released album “Ultra Rare Traxx Vol. 3”.
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Released album “Unpublished 1”.
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2008· 2 entries
And 2009, the band set out on the Somewhere Back in Time World Tour, which has since been described as "groundbreaking" for its use of Ed Force One, the band's customised Boeing 757, flown by Dickinson himself, and led t
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200 British citizens from Lebanon during the Israel/Hezbollah conflict in 2006, and 180 stranded holiday makers from Egypt following the collapse of XL Airways UK in September 2008
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “Anthology”.
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Dickinson presented a documentary for Sky One called Inside Spontaneous Human Combustion with Bruce Dickinson, in which he investigated the phenomenon by enlisting the help of several experts and performing various exper
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To record their next studio album, A Matter of Life and Death, and embarked on a supporting tour
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2005· 6 entries
Released album “Alive”.
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Released album “Tyranny of Souls”.
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Released album “The B-Sides”.
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Iron Maiden co-headlined the US festival tour, Ozzfest, with Black Sabbath
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Dickinson hosted a five-part historical TV series about aviation, Flying Heavy Metal, shown on the Discovery Channel and later on Discovery Turbo in the UK
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Tyranny of Souls and The Mandrake Project in 2024
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2003· 1 entry
Recorded and released Dance of Death at London's SARM Studios with Kevin Shirley, now the band's new regular producer
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “The Best of Bruce Dickinson”.
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2000· 1 entry
Dickinson performed vocals on the song, "Into the Black Hole", for Ayreon's Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator
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1999· 4 entries
Released album “Scream for Me Brazil”.
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Along with guitarist Adrian Smith, and has released six subsequent studio albums with the band
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With Janick Gers remaining in the band, after he was approached by manager Rod Smallwood
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His singing style has returned to much like it was in the 1980s, though his voice has lowered with age
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “The Chemical Wedding”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Accident of Birth”.
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “Skunkworks”.
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Released album “Acoustic Works”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Alive in Studio A”.
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1994· 2 entries
Released album “Balls to Picasso”.
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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
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1993· 2 entries
Which Dickinson did not enjoy
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(being replaced by Blaze Bayley) to pursue his solo career, which saw him experiment with a wide variety of heavy metal and rock styles
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1992· 2 entries
For Comic Relief, and five years later, on Bean Soundtrack
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“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. The album was recorded at Guillaume Tell Studios, Paris with producer Kevin Shirley, after which Iron Maiden undertook a supporting tour culminating with a performance at the Rock in Rio festival before a crowd of 250,000. In 2003, they recorded and released Dance of Death at London”
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Los Angeles 1990”.
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “Tattooed Millionaire”.
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(ISBN 0-283-06043-3), the novel sold more than 40,000 copies almost immediately
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1989· 2 entries
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song for Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter (1989).
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Became the band's first and only single to top the UK Singles Chart
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1987· 1 entry
The band could not return to England immediately for tax purposes
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “Head Tactics”.
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1984· 1 entry
Dickinson married Erica "Jane" Barnett in 1984 and they divorced in 1987.
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1983· 1 entry
Began training again whenever his commitments with Iron Maiden allowed him, and he would start participating in regional tournaments
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1981· 3 entries
All three were born in the Chiswick area of London, where Dickinson lived for a few decades beginning in 1981.
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The band has sold well over 100 million albums as of 2024
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To join Iron Maiden, replacing Paul Di'Anno, and debuted on their 1982 album The Number of the Beast
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1979· 2 entries
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
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On an independent label, two months before Dickinson joined
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1977· 1 entry
Dickinson met Paul "Noddy" White, a multi-instrumentalist who owned a public address system (PA) and other equipment, with whom Dickinson, along with drummer Steve Jones, would form a band together called Speed
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1976· 1 entry
Dickinson enrolled at King Edward VII School, at which he joined his first band
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1958· 1 entry
Born 1958-08-07.
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