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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close. |
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Vote: | I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would! |
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Vote: | I dreamt for years about making albums and doing world tours-I'd fulfilled all my ambitions in one year. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much. |
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Vote: | I fly aeroplanes, go down the pub, go to the gym, read-I like military history, social history, occasionally arty books. |
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Vote: | I guess that the salary that they get when they are working with me is, like, it beats working at McDonalds, so it has got some things going for it. |
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Vote: | I love performing on the stage, but I don't like being famous-I just don't see the point, it just cheapens everything. |
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Vote: | I only ever had one pair of Spandex trousers! |
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Vote: | I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism. |
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Vote: | I was asked to sign a bunny, a real one! I am not an aficionado of bunnies. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I'm a ham. I was immediately attracted to fencing because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat. |
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Vote: | I'm not going to do any more solo touring. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent! |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists. |
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Vote: | Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk. |
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Vote: | Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned. |
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Vote: | The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. |
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Vote: | The prolific spurt has passed. I have spurted my prolificness! I have squirted my whatever from the whatever, the acatalectic record of mankind and have decided to repose myself until after the new Iron Maiden record. |
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Vote: | There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick. Metal music has been ambushed by a fashionable West Coast wasted look-you know, the red bandanna and the heroin needle sticking out of your arm. I think that's disgusting. |
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Vote: | There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time. |
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Vote: | Well, if it's the audience is a bit lagging we kick them in the nuts until they wake up! |
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Vote: | Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well. |
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Vote: | Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people. |
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Paul Bruce Dickinson (born August 7, 1958 in Worksop Notts, England) is the lead singer in the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Before this, he was singer in similar band Samson from 1980 until he joined Iron Maiden with their Number of the Beast album in 1982.
During previous years, he was in Styx (1976) (not the American band of the same name; Styx), then went on to sing for Speed (1977 - 1978) and when this band split, he joined Shots until the summer of 1979.
Other talents include literature, writing, Olympic standard fencing, train technology and flying Boeing 737 charter jets for the UK charter airline Astraeus (which Iceland Express leases planes from) where he is employed as First Officer.
He is sometimes called "Conan the Librarian" after a character in the "Weird Al" Yankovic movie UHF, and has been nicknamed, 'The Air Raid Siren'. Dickinson went by the stagename "Bruce Bruce" prior to joining Iron Maiden. He is also an above average guitarist, as can be seen in the Live After Death video and various videos from his solo career. He studied history at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and was active in student politics as a member of the Conservative Party.
Dickinson currently presents the Saturday evening "rock show" on BBC alternative rock radio station 6 Music. He has recently taken the helm of BBC Radio 2 Serial, Masters of Rock. He also presented the 5-part historical TV series about aviation; Flying Heavy Metal was shown on the Discovery Channel in the UK.
Biography
Solo career
His career outside Iron Maiden started with the recording of "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter" which appears on the A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child soundtrack and Disc Two of The Best of Bruce Dickinson album. A different version of the song was recorded by Iron Maiden for the No Prayer for the Dying album. The original version got him a studio deal for a full album. Along with friend and soon-to-be Iron Maiden guitarist Janick Gers, Dickinson wrote the Tattooed Millionaire album within two weeks. The result was a rather poppy rock album with surprisingly fun, solid songwriting. It was, however, far away from Iron Maiden's heavy metal sound and fantasy lyricism - the baudy sexual innuendoes of "Dive, Dive, Dive!" would never find themselves on one of Iron Maiden's releases. It is possible that some of the songs are leftover ideas from the Somewhere in Time sessions, in which Dickinson presented more experimental ideas to Steve Harris who was not convinced, thus leading to a complete absence of Dickinson songwriting credits on that album.
Before the release of his second effort, Balls to Picasso, Dickinson left Iron Maiden and went through two different efforts with two sets of different collaborators. The first was with Myke Gray of the band Skin, and the second with the producer Keith Olsen. Of the second, a few songs surfaced as B-sides and one, "No Way Out... Continued" appears on the 2-disc The Best of Bruce Dickinson collection. Dickinson was not happy with the majority of the material on these efforts. Salvation came at last in the form of Tribes of Gypsies guitarist Roy Z. He agreed to work with Dickinson to improve the Keith Olsen album and ended replacing all of it except "Tears of the Dragon". Balls to Picasso was recorded with the Tribe of Gypsies and was a far more mature record than Tattooed Millionaire, with some very well-crafted songs, spurred along with the melodic and shredding leads of Roy Z.
The Tribe departed to tour and record under their own steam, leaving Dickinson to track down another band. Dickinson's new writing partner was Alex Dickson, and after touring his current song catalogue (documented on Alive in Studio A) with him and the rest of the new band, sat down to write Skunkworks. The idea was that the band would be called that, but the record company insisted Dickinson's name be on the release. Dickinson likened that to David Bowie attempting to do the same with Tin Machine and how it did not work for him either. The album is often described as grunge, which while not wholly accurate does convey the idea that the songs are rather short, with relatively brief guitar solos and overall less of a metal edge.
The Skunkworks entity ceased to be after the touring due to musical differences (Dickinson wanted the next album to be more metal), and after a period of inactivity Dickinson once again teamed up with Roy Z to record Accident Of Birth. Adrian Smith was asked to guest but played on the whole album and tour. The album marked a return to heavy metal for Dickinson; in fact the album could be considered to be heavier than Iron Maiden. It was a big success and for the first time, a follow up was inevitable. The Chemical Wedding, a semi-concept album on the writings of William Blake followed. This record proved to be even more successful, with engaging lyrics and powerful songs. Scream for Me Brazil was a live album that documented a show of the Chemical Wedding tour, and featured songs from the last two albums and two from Balls to Picasso.
The Best of Bruce Dickinson album with two new Roy Z songs and a limited edition disc of rarities was released upon his announcement of a return to Iron Maiden. Dickinson is said to have wanted to record another album with Roy Z, but he was busy with Judas Priest vocalist, Rob Halford, and the window of opportunity was missed. Tyranny of Souls, was finally released in May 2005. This time the songwriting was all split between Roy Z and Dickinson, with Roy playing all guitars and even basses in some songs. Much of the writing was done by Roy sending recordings of riffs to Dickinson which he wrote lyrics and melodies for while on tour. With the release of Tyranny of Souls, Dickinson's back catalogue was reissued with a bonus disc of extra tracks for each album except The Chemical Wedding and the two live albums, the latter of which were packaged together in a three-disc set.
A compilation DVD was expected for the first half of 2005 but was pushed back to Fall 2005 to avoid clashing with the Iron Maiden schedule.
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Bruce Dickinson".
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