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Bruce Dickinson

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Also known as Paul Bruce Dickinson

English heavy metal singer (born 1958)

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Bruce Dickinson is a British male artist from the United Kingdom whose career began in 1976. He is associated with the heavy metal and hard rock genres. Dickinson has used the pseudonyms "Air Raid Siren" and "Bruce Bruce." His official website is screamforme.com.

He has authored twenty works, including the *Mandrake Project*, *Iron Maiden*, and *What does this button do?: Die Autobiografie*. Specific publications include *Bruce Dickinson's MANDRAKE Project Issue No. 2* and *Issue No. 3*. Crossref lists five of his works. A quote attributed to him states, "Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue."

Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
20

Top works

  • Mandrake Project
  • Iron Maiden
  • What does this button do?: Die Autobiografie
  • Bruce Dickinson's MANDRAKE Project Issue No. 3
  • Bruce Dickinson's MANDRAKE Project Issue No. 2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1958-08-07
bruce dickinsonheavy metalmetalpilotreino unidovocalist

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
494,349
Total plays
15,556,409

Tags

heavy metalhard rockmetalbritishrock

Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English singer best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He has performed with the band during two periods, from 1981 to 1993 and from 1999 onward. Dickinson is noted for his wide vocal range and theatrical stage presence. Dickinson began his musical career in the 1970s performing with local pub bands while attending school in Sheffield and later studying at university in London. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bruce+

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

    · 2011 · cited 19,403x

  2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,616x

  3. Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

    · 2012 · cited 17,966x

  4. The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital

    · 1997 · cited 16,327x

  5. Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes

    · 2002 · cited 16,051x

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Quotes

  • “Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue.”
  • “(On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?”

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bruce Dickinson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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