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Template:Short description Template:About Template:Good article Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox musical artist Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English singer 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.

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 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 and early 1990s.

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, and has released six subsequent studio albums with the band. Since his return to Iron Maiden, he has released two further solo records, in 2005, Tyranny of Souls and The Mandrake Project in 2024.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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. Since Bruce Dickinson joined Iron Maiden in 1981, the band has sold well over 100 million albums as of 2024.Template:Sfn

Outside his career in music, Dickinson has pursued a number of other activities. 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, in 2012 he created his own aircraft maintenance and pilot training company, 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 beer with Robinsons Brewery and competed at fencing internationally.

Early life

Paul Bruce Dickinson was born on 7 August 1958 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.Template:Sfn His mother, Sonia, worked part-time in a shoe shop, and his father, Bruce, was a mechanic in the British Army.Template:Sfnm His birth hurried the young couple, who were then just teenagers, into marriage.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn This is referred to in his song "Born In '58" from the album Tattooed Millionaire.Template:Sfn Dickinson started school at Manton Primary in Worksop while his parents moved away to Sheffield.Template:Sfn Soon afterwards, when he was six, he was also despatched to Sheffield,Template:Sfn where he attended a primary school in Manor Top.Template:Sfn After six months, his parents decided to move him to a small private school called Sharrow Vale Junior.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn Dickinson has a younger sister, professional showjumper Template:Ill, 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.Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn He tried to play an acoustic guitar belonging to his father, but it blistered his fingers.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn

At Oundle, Dickinson was picked on and routinely bullied by the older boys of Sidney House, the boarding house that he belonged to,Template:Sfn which he described as "like systematic torture" and meant that he became an outsider.Template:Sfn His interests at Oundle were often military; he co-founded the school wargames society with Mike Jordan, and he joined the school's cadet force.Template:Sfn This gave him access to live ammunition, which he used to create explosions as booby-traps.Template:Sfn Oundle was where Dickinson became attracted to progressive rock and early heavy metal after hearing Deep Purple's "Child in Time" being played in another student's room.Template:Sfn As a result, the first album he ever bought was Deep Purple's In Rock, which created his interest in rock and metal music.Template:Sfn After In Rock, he went on to buy Black Sabbath's debut, Jethro Tull's Aqualung and Tarkus by Emerson, Lake & Palmer.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn After that, he saw Van der Graaf Generator and Arthur Brown.Template:Sfn

Dickinson initially wanted to play the drums,Template:Sfn later obtaining a pair of bongo drums from the music room for practice.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn Shortly afterwards Dickinson was expelled from Oundle for participating in a prank in which he allegedly urinated in the headmaster's dinner.Template:Sfn Returning home to Sheffield in 1976, Dickinson enrolled at King Edward VII School, at which he joined his first band.Template:Sfn He had overheard two other pupils talking about their band and that they needed a singer and so volunteered immediately.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn Their first gig took place at the Broadfield Tavern in Sheffield.Template:Sfn Originally called "Paradox", the band changed their name on Dickinson's suggestion to "Styx", unaware of the American act with the same name.Template:Sfn They made local newspaper headlines when a steel worker was awoken by their performance and tried to smash the band's drum kit.Template:Sfn Soon afterwards the band split up.Template:Sfn

After leaving school with A-levels in English, History, and Economics, Dickinson confessed, "I didn't really know what I wanted to do."Template:Sfn The first thing he did was join the Territorial Army for six months.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfn In 1977, 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.Template:Sfn According to Dickinson, the band was called Speed because of the way in which they played, rather than a reference to drug-taking.Template:Sfn In Speed, Dickinson began writing his own material after White taught him how to play three chords on the guitar.Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfn Dickinson spotted an advertisement in Melody Maker with the caption "Singer wanted for recording project" and replied immediately.Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfn 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",Template:Sfn formed by two brothers, Phil and Doug Siviter.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn

Dickinson played pubs with Shots on a regular basis to small audiences.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn Impressed with his stage-act, they talked with Dickinson afterwards and invited him to be their new singer.Template:Sfn Dickinson agreed to join their band, Samson, but only once he'd finished taking his History finals two weeks later.Template:Sfn Until that point, he had been neglecting his University education.Template:Sfn As a result, the university had tried to expel him for failing his Second Year exams and not paying his accommodation fees, but he was saved because of his role as Entertainments Officer.Template:Sfn After writing six months' worth of essays in the space of two weeks and some last minute cramming for his exams, Dickinson achieved a 2:2.Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfn

The band had already released their debut album, Survivors, in 1979 on an independent label, two months before Dickinson joined.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn Although the tracks did not suit his vocal style,Template:Sfn the band soon wrote the majority of the following Head On album in their earliest rehearsal sessions,Template:Sfn some of which were immediately incorporated into their live set.Template:Sfn

It was during these early rehearsals that the nickname "Bruce Bruce" came about, derived from Monty Python's "Bruces sketch".Template:Sfn The name became very tiresome as the band's management continually wrote dud cheques, made payable to "Bruce Bruce", as a joke.Template:Sfn Dickinson later commented that he did not like it but considered it "a sort of stage name" and accepted it.Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfn Although he had smoked joints before,Template:Sfn 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".Template:Sfn

While fronting the band, Dickinson also came across Iron Maiden for the first time, who were supporting Samson at the Music Machine in 1980.Template:Sfn 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.'"Template:Sfn

Dickinson remained in the band for another year, recording two studio albums with them—Head On and Shock Tactics.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn

Iron Maiden

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Beginnings and success: 1981–1985

Dickinson, left, performing on his first world tour with Iron Maiden in 1982

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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn

Iron Maiden had a strict and organised routine that suited the band's writing style, which Dickinson described as a "time table".Template:Sfn 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,Template:Sfn 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".Template:Sfn 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 British charts,Template:Sfn 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".Template:Sfn 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".Template:Sfn This was the band's longest tour to date, during which Dickinson considered going home mid-tour, due to the high number of shows.Template:Sfn Iron Maiden's management were continually adding dates, until Dickinson demanded that they stop or he would leave the group.Template:Sfn

Growing tensions and departure: 1986–1993

After a six-month break, which Dickinson mostly spent practising fencing,Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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".Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfn Although it became their second release to top the British charts,Template:Sfn it was also Dickinson's first album with the band that did not achieve platinum status in the US.Template:Sfn Unlike Somewhere in Time, Dickinson was much more enthusiastic about this album due to its concept and has several song-writing credits.Template:Sfn After the following tour in 1988, the band decided to take a year off.Template:Sfn Template:Quote box 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 a retrospective assessment by AllMusic, did not "hold up well" compared to past efforts,Template:Sfn as it was recorded in a barn which Steve Harris owned, with a mobile studio owned by the Rolling Stones.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn By 1992, Harris had converted his barn into a proper studio, and the new album, Fear of the Dark, was recorded there,Template:Sfn resulting in a better overall sound than No Prayer for the Dying,Template:Sfn although Dickinson still says it had limitations due to its size.Template:Sfn

After the Fear of the Dark Tour, Dickinson decided to leave Iron Maiden to concentrate on his solo career.Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfn According to Harris, Dickinson would only perform when the press was there,Template:Sfn whereas at other concerts he would only mumble his way through songs.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn

Return: 1999–present

Performing on 6 July 2010 during The Final Frontier World Tour. The 2010 leg consisted primarily of material released since Dickinson's return to Iron Maiden in 1999.Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfn 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".Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfn The album was recorded at Guillaume Tell Studios, Paris with producer Kevin Shirley,Template:Sfn after which Iron Maiden undertook a supporting tour culminating with a performance at the Rock in Rio festival before a crowd of 250,000.Template:Sfn

In 2003, they recorded and released Dance of Death at London's SARM Studios with Kevin Shirley, now the band's new regular producer.Template:Sfn 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,Template:Sfn and embarked on a supporting tour. In 2008 and 2009, the band set out on the Somewhere Back in Time World Tour,Template:Sfn which has since been described as "groundbreaking"Template:Sfn for its use of Ed Force One, the band's customised Boeing 757, flown by Dickinson himself,Template:Sfn and led to the documentary film Iron Maiden: Flight 666, which had a limited cinema release in April 2009.Template:Sfn Iron Maiden held another world tour in 2010 and 2011 in support of The Final Frontier,Template:Sfn their first album recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas since 1986's Somewhere in Time,Template:Sfn and which peaked at No. 1 in 28 countries.Template:Sfn The song "El Dorado" also won the band a Grammy award for "Best Metal Performance".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In September 2014, Iron Maiden began recording their sixteenth studio album, The Book of Souls, at Guillaume Tell Studios, Paris.Template:Sfn The release features two songs written solely by Dickinson for the first time since Powerslave, "If Eternity Should Fail" and "Empire of the Clouds",Template:Sfn the former originally penned for a possible solo record.Template:Sfn "Empire of the Clouds" is the band's longest ever song, at over 18 minutes in length,Template:Sfn and features Dickinson on piano for the first time, which is how the song was written.Template:Sfn 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).Template:Sfn In 2018 the band embarked on the Legacy of the Beast World Tour which lasted all the way till 2022.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Durinh this period they also released their seventeenth and most recent album Senjutsu which was a critical and commercial success peaking at No.1 in 33 countries.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The band went on the The Future Past World Tour in support of the album.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Ozzfest incident

Performing "The Trooper" with Iron Maiden in Paris, 1 July 2008. Dickinson has always waved a Union Flag during live renditions of the song.Template:Sfn

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".Template:Sfn Osbourne ordered interference with the band's PA, delayed the entrance of Eddie, the band's mascot,Template:Sfn and encouraged members of the Osbourne camp to throw eggs, lighters and bottle tops from the front of the audience.<ref name="Rob's Statement">Template:Cite web</ref> According to Dickinson, the attack was in response to his "disparaging remarks about reality TV shows that she took personally",Template:Citation needed although The Guardian reported that he slatedTemplate:Vague the Osbournes' reality series and accused Ozzy Osbourne of using a teleprompter.Template:Sfn Dickinson has since denied making comments against Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath,Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfn

Following the concert at San Bernardino, Osbourne released a further statement which accused Dickinson of making several anti-American comments,Template:Sfn for which Classic Rock stated that "nobody can present any cast-iron evidence".Template:Sfn In addition, Osbourne claimed that the flag-waving during "The Trooper" was disrespectful to American troops,Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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".Template:Sfn

July 2022 Athens concert incident

Dickinson has publicly reprimanded fans at Iron Maiden concerts if he feels they are out of line. One such incident occurred during the band's Legacy of the Beast Tour concert at the Olympic Stadium in Athens on 16 July 2022, when Dickinson used offensive language to attack the nationality of a Greek fan who had lit up a flare as the frontman was about to sing "The Number Of The Beast".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In February 2024, Dickinson admitted in an interview for the Greek magazine Rock Hard that he had lost his temper when asked about his reaction to the flare at the Athens 2022 concert.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Solo career

In early 1989, Zomba asked Dickinson to produce a track for the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child,Template:Sfn 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,Template:Sfn then recorded with the assistance of bassist Andy Carr, and drummer Fabio del Rio.Template:Sfn "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.'Template:Sfn Impressed with the results, Zomba asked Dickinson if he was willing to record a whole album as well.Template:Sfn 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,Template:Sfn followed by a supporting tour.Template:Sfn

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. 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,Template:Sfn and five years later, on Bean Soundtrack.Template:Sfn

Dickinson performing with Tribuzy in São Paulo, 11 November 2005. The performance was recorded for a live album, entitled Execution – Live Reunion.

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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn Balls to Picasso was recorded with Tribe of Gypsies as the backing band,Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfn

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.'"Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn A compilation, entitled The Best of Bruce Dickinson, was released in late 2001, including two new songs and a bonus disc of rarities.Template:Sfn His sixth 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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".Template:Sfn

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.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref> 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."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Dickinson released The Mandrake Project, his first solo studio album in 19 years, in March 2024. It was produced by Roy Z.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The record seen commercial success and peaked in the top 10 in multiple countries and No.1 in German and Austria. It also received critical success Blabbermouth.net stated "The Mandrake Project" is magnificent, mandatory listening for fans of heavy metal.”<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In June of 2025 Dickinson released a remaster of his 1994 album Balls to Picasso called More Balls to Picasso. The record also included previously unreleased live in-the-studio tracks, ‘Gods of War’ and ‘Shoot All the Clowns’.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Dickinson also embarked on his first solo North American tour in thirty years in support of his album The Mandrake Project which went from August to October.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He also announced that he will begin recording for his new album which he plays to have finished by 2027.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Solo band members

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Current members
  • Chris Declercq – guitar, backing vocals (2024–present)
  • Philip Naslund – guitar, backing vocals (2024–present)
  • Tanya O'Callaghan – bass, backing vocals (2024–present)
  • Dave Moreno – drums, backing vocals (2024–present)
  • Mistheria – keytar, backing vocals (2024–present)

Personal life

Dickinson performing live on the Somewhere Back in Time World Tour in 2008

Dickinson married Erica "Jane" Barnett in 1984,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and they divorced in 1987.Template:Sfn With his second wife, psychotherapist Patrice "Paddy" Bowden, he has three children.Template:Sfn All three were born in the Chiswick area of London,Template:Sfn where Dickinson lived for a few decades beginning in 1981.Template:Sfn In 2020, it was reported that he and Bowden had separated earlier after almost 30 years of marriage. She died in an accident at her home in May 2020.<ref name=metrowife2019>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:As of Dickinson lives in Paris, with his wife Leana Dolci who he married in late 2023.<ref name=metrowife2019 /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Dickinson's son Austin was the lead singer in metalcore band Rise to Remain until their break-up in 2015,Template:Sfn at which point he formed the alternative metal group As Lions.Template:Sfn His other son Griffin, who previously worked as a stage carpenter for Iron Maiden during their tours,Template:Sfn was the lead singer of melodic hardcore band SHVPES.Template:Sfnm Dickinson's cousin, Rob Dickinson, was the lead singer of alternative rock band Catherine Wheel and founded the American company Singer Vehicle Design.Template:Sfnm

In an interview with Sarah Montague for BBC's HARDtalk in 2012, Dickinson agreed that he is a conservative and a Eurosceptic.Template:Sfn 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2015, Dickinson underwent seven weeks of chemotherapy and radiation therapy for a cancerous tumour found at the back of his tongue.Template:Sfn Dickinson's medical team expected him to make a full recovery as the tumour was discovered in the early stages.Template:Sfn On 15 May, Dickinson was given the all-clear by his specialists.Template:Sfn

Honours

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

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".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2019, Dickinson was also presented with an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy by the University of Helsinki.Template:Sfn

On 6 January 2020, Dickinson was made an Honorary Group Captain of 601 (County of London) Squadron RAF.<ref>"Iron Maiden Lead Singer Made Honorary Group Captain RAF". Forces.net. Retrieved 8 January 2020</ref>

In 2024, Dickinson was made an honorary citizen of Curitiba City, Brazil.<ref name="Honorary Citizen of Curitiba">Template:Cite web</ref>

Other work

Dickinson's interests and non-musical activities include writing, broadcasting, fencing (at which he has competed internationally, placing 7th in Great Britain,Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn

Aviation and entrepreneurship

Dickinson in a flight suit while filming Flying Heavy Metal

Dickinson learned to fly recreationally in Florida in the 1990sTemplate:Sfn and now holds an airline transport pilot's licence. He regularly flew Boeing 757s in his role as captain for the now-defunct British 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,Template:Sfn leading to the Civil Aviation Authority releasing a video featuring Dickinson on aircraft loading safety in June 2011.Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn In June 2013, The Daily Telegraph reported that the business had expanded to between 60 and 70 employees and were in discussions to set up their own airline.Template:Sfn In August 2015, Cardiff Aviation signed a deal to provide airline support to Air Djibouti,Template:Sfn for whom Dickinson piloted their maiden flight the following year, a Boeing 737 from Cardiff to Djibouti.Template:Sfn As a result of his business ventures, Dickinson delivered keynote speeches at events around the globe, including Queen Mary University of London's Innovation Showcase in November 2012,Template:Sfn Connect2Business, Stockholm in March 2013,Template:Sfn Aviation Week's MRO Europe Conference, London in October 2015Template:Sfn and "Blog Now, Live Forever", Mumbai in October 2015.Template:Sfn

Iron Maiden's Boeing 747-400, Ed Force One, as used during The Book of Souls World Tour in 2016

Dickinson's role as a pilot has led to some high-profile flights, which include returning a group of RAF pilots from Afghanistan in 2008,Template:Sfn 200 British citizens from Lebanon during the Israel/Hezbollah conflict in 2006,Template:Sfn and 180 stranded holiday makers from Egypt following the collapse of XL Airways UK in September 2008.Template:Sfn 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,Template:Sfn which subsequently led to a documentary film, Iron Maiden: Flight 666.Template:Sfn Dickinson flew "Ed Force One" again for "The Final Frontier World Tour" in 2011.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn 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 air shows across the UK.Template:Sfnm In 2024 Dickinson guessed that he has roughly 7,500 hours of total flight time.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Radio and TV

Dickinson in 2014

Dickinson presented Bruce Dickinson's Friday Rock Show on BBC Radio 6 Music from 2002 to 2010. In March 2010, the BBC announced that, after over eight years, Dickinson's show was to be axed.Template:Sfn 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 BBC executives for the cancellation, playing the Johnny Paycheck version of "Take This Job and Shove It".Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn

In 2005, 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.Template:Sfn 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 called 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.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn Dickinson has also appeared in a BBC series called The Paradise Club, undertaking the role of a musician named Jake Skinner.Template:Sfn 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.Template:Sfn

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.Template:Sfn Inspired by the novels of Tom Sharpe, in addition to Biggles and Penthouse, he created The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace,Template:Sfn which Kerrang! describes as "a satirical swipe at fetishism among the upper classes",Template:Sfn and whose title character is a "semi-transvestite" British land owner.Template:Sfn

Following its completion, Dickinson approached Sidgwick & Jackson, who, according to Dickinson, agreed to publish the book before reading it, solely based on Iron Maiden's album sales.Template:Sfn Released in 1990 (Template:ISBN), the novel sold more than 40,000 copies almost immediately.Template:Sfn Due to the high demand, Sidgwick & Jackson asked Dickinson to produce a sequel,Template:Sfn which became 1992's The Missionary Position (Template:ISBN), a satire of televangelism.Template:Sfn 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."Template:Sfn

Dickinson also 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.Template:Citation needed

On 15 October 2015, HarperCollins and Dey Street announced that they would publish Dickinson's memoirs.Template:Sfn What Does This Button Do?Template:Sfn was released on 19 October 2017.Template:Sfn

Beer

In 2013, Iron Maiden collaborated with Robinsons Brewery in Stockport to create Trooper, a 4.8% cask/4.7% bottled ale<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=guid>Template:Cite web</ref> whose recipe Dickinson formulated with head brewer Martyn Weeks.Template:Sfn As of May 2014, the beer has sold 2.5 million pints in 40 countries, making it Robinsons' most successful export.Template:Sfn

Following Trooper's success, Dickinson, a fan of traditional English cask beer,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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."Template:Sfn 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).

In 2023, Dickinson created a Trooper Progressive Lager<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> together with the German craft beer brewery Crew Republic.

Fencing

Dickinson originally wanted to take up the sport of boxing, however at the age of 13 he was instead convinced by was one his school teachers to try out fencing and quickly took a liking to the sport "because it seemed like a romantic, melodramatic form of combat.”<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> At the age of 15 Dickinson won the school fencing competition and became team captain, this allowed Dickinson to start a professional career in London and was ranked as high as No. 7 in Britain.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> However in his late teens he gave up the sport completely as music began becoming his main priority, he was ranked.<ref name=":0" /> In 1983 he began training again whenever his commitments with Iron Maiden allowed him and he would start participating in regional tournaments.<ref name=":0" /> Dickinson has claimed he got back into the sport during this period to distract himself from the temptations of drugs, alcohol and sex that come with his fame and touring.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> During Iron Maidens time off between the Powerslave tour and the recording of the Somewhere in time , Dickinson and a friend of his began traveling across Europe competing in tournaments. During this time Dickinson who was a right handed fencer his entire career decided to start training with his left hand and by the Summer of 1986 he had become a competent left handed fencer.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> When Iron Maiden had finished recording Seventh son of a seventh son in West Germany in 1987, the band couldn't return to England immediately for tax purposes. So Dickinson moved to Bonn, and began training at the West German national centre for fencing. Then by the end of the 1987-1988 season he was ranked 18th in Britain, and after touring for Seventh son he was once again ranked 7th in the men's foil discipline, but by the end of the 1989-1990 season he had fallen all the down to 35th.<ref name=":0" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Throughout the 1980s Dickinson would also train the with British Olympic team.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Bruce joined the London Thames Fencing Club at Roehampton during the 2000s,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> in 2013 he had an unofficial match with Norwegian Olympic silver medalist Bartosz Piasecki, he gave Dickson credit stating “He's kick-ass, short but incredibly fast, that's his weapon.”<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2022 Dickinson won a silver medal in the European fencing championships, veteran category.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> More recently Dickinson represented Great Britain in the 2025 veterans category of the Circuit Européen where he finished in 13th out of 31.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Singing style and stage performance

Dickinson performing in Ottawa, Ontario, 2010

Although Dickinson never received formal training, he possesses a wide vocal range which is characterised by his quasi-operatic tenor.Template:Sfn 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).Template:Sfn

Dickinson's singing varied 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,Template:Sfn befitting their stripped down style.Template:Sfn Since returning to Iron Maiden in 1999, his singing style has returned to much like it was in the 1980s,Template:Sfn though his voice has lowered with age.Template:Sfn According to a report published in the Daily Mirror, Dickinson has an estimated vocal range of 4.25 octaves.Template:Sfn His voice led to the nickname "The Air Raid Siren", which Billboard states is "due to the ferocious power of his singing",Template:Sfn although Dickinson said it actually originated from a fan complaint.Template:Sfn

In addition to his vocal ability, Dickinson has been described as an energetic stage performer.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".Template:Sfn To achieve this, Dickinson seeks eye contact with audience membersTemplate:Sfn 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".Template:Sfn

Awards, accolades and titles

Template:Col-begin Template:Col-2 ASTRAEUS Airlines Capitan

  • 2007: Astraeus Capitan Title – Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden<ref name="Astraeus Capitan Title">Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2010: Astraeus Marketing Director<ref name="Astraeus Capitan Title"/>

Antyradio Awards

BBC Radio Awards

  • 2002: Best Music DJ – Sony Award for Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2006: Best Rock Programm – Monsters of Rock with Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref name="BBCAw">Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2008: Golden Rock Mike – Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref name="BBCAw" />
  • 2010: Best Author's Programm – BBC Radio 6 Music with Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref name="BBCAw" />

Bogota International Airport

  • 2009: Honorary Capitan Title – Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Butanan Institute São Paulo

  • 2019: Extraordinarius brucedickinsoni – A new species of Brazilian spider. Name inspired by the singer of Iron Maiden<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

CAERDAV

  • 2018: Co-founder, chairman and owner – Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Californian Buckwheat Named After Iron Maiden's Frontman

Congress of Argentina Honours

  • 2019: Relief Salon De Los Pasos Perdidos – State prize for individual Iron Maiden musicians for their contribution to the development of the country's culture and music. For the first time ever awarded to a foreign artist<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

El Salvador Ministry of Tourism

  • 2016: Honorary Visitors of the Country Award – Dickinson as the member of Iron Maiden<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Film Festival of Sarajevo

  • 2016: Human Rights Award – Scream For Me, Sarajevo, Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref name="SFMS Awards">Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2016: Special Jury Prize – Scream For Me, Sarajevo, Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref name="SFMS Awards" />
  • 2016: Audience Award – Scream For Me, Sarajevo, Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref name="SFMS Awards" />
  • 2017: Official Competition Award – Scream For Me, Sarajevo, Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref name="SFMS Awards" />

Golden Raspberry Award

  • 1989: The Worst Original Song – Bring Your Daughter to... the Slaughter, Bruce Dickinson (author)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Hollywood's RockWalk

  • 2005: RockWalk of Fame Inductee – Bruce Dickinson as the member of Iron Maiden<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Honorary Citizen of Curitiba City

  • 2024: Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref name="Honorary Citizen of Curitiba"/>

Honorary Citizen of Sarajevo

Intelligent Life Magazine

Kart Races São Paulo

  • 2023: Gold Medal Winner – Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Matwatches France

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QMUL Engagement and Enterprise Award

  • 2017: Dr Hamit Soyel – The Prize Bruce Dickinson Award for Academic Entrepreneur of the Year<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  • 2017: Heavy Metal Permanent Exhibition – Bruce Dickinson's electrick jacket „Somewhere in Time Tour 1986/87”, Iron Maiden<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Rhode Island International Film Festival

  • 2017: Official Documentary Award – Scream For Me, Sarajevo, Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref name="SFMS Awards" />

Robinsons Brewery Award

  • 2015: Golden Disc in Recognize of 10 MLN Sales – Bruce Dickinson & Iron Maiden<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2021: Recognize of 30 MLN Sales – Bruce Dickinson & Iron Maiden<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Rock Aid Armenia

  • 1990: First Charity Gold Record Award & Pledge – Bruce Dickinson, Nicko McBrain, Steve Harris (Iron Maiden)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Royal Air Force (RAF UK)

Royal Mail Honors

  • 2023: Post stamps series dedicated to the greatest legends of music – Iron Maiden, Dickinson as the band's frontman<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

São Paulo International Airport

  • 2009: Honorary Capitan Title – Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

TAM Museu

  • 2011: Official Title Comandante Do Metal Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The Sixth April Award

  • 2019: Heroe of the Sarajevo – Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Tuzla Film Festival

  • 2017: Best Documentary – Scream For Me, Sarajevo, Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref name="SFMS Awards" />

UK British Fencing Veterans

UK's National Fencing Team

  • 1987: National Fencing Team Member – Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) No. 7<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Universidad Católica del Ecuador

  • 2024: Brand new species of Amazonian lizards named after Bruce Dickinson – Enyalioides Dickinsoni<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

University do Triângulo

  • 2019: Venezuelan variety of lichens named after Bruce Dickinson – Clusia dickinsoniana J.E. Nascim<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

University of Helsinki

  • 2019: Honorary Doctor of Philosophy (PhD HC) – Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Queen Mary University of London, QMUL

  • 1981: Master's degree in History – Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 2011: Honorary Doctor of Music (DMA HC) – Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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Discography

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Special appearances

Iron Maiden videos/DVD

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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
  • 2024: The Mandrake Project Tour

The Mandrake Project tour

The tour takes place between the 2023 and 2024 legs of Iron Maiden's The Future Past World Tour.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

2024 touring band members
  • Bruce Dickinson – lead vocals
  • Chris Declercq – guitar
  • Philip Naslund – guitar
  • Tanya O'Callaghan – bass
  • Mistheria – keyboards
  • Dave Moreno – drums

Notes

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