BRUCE DICKINSON

good morning teacher, good morning class

In my project I will talk about the singer Bruce Dickinson

1 Paul Bruce Dickinson was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire-

England, on August 7, 1958

His mother Sonia worked part-time in a shoe factory and his

father Bruce was an army mechanic
Bruce has a younger sister, professional jockey Helena
Stormanns, born in 1963.

2 Bruce studied at Manton Elementary School in Worksop while

his parents lived in Sheffield.

Bruce was initially interested in learning to play the drums by

practicing with a pair of bongos. His music teacher recalls that he
played and sang the song "Let It Be" with his friend Mike Jordan,
discovering that he had a promising voice for singing rock music.

3 After graduating from school with an emphasis on English,

history and economics, Dickinson confessed, "I really didn't know
what I wanted to do."
The first thing he did was join the Second Army Reserve for six
months. coming out of the army I study history at Queen Mary
University of London.
Bruce Dickinson began his music career in small bands in the
1970s while attending school in Sheffield and university in
London

4 In 1979 he joined the group Samson, with which he achieved

some popularity under the stage name of "Bruce Bruce". After
recording two studio albums he left the band in 1981 to join Iron
Maiden

During his first stint at Iron Maiden, he recorded a series of

successful albums that became platinum and gold records in the
United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s.

Dickinson left Iron Maiden in 1993 (being replaced by Blaze

Bayley) to pursue a solo career, allowing him to experiment with
a wide variety of styles between heavy metal and hard rock.

5.. Apart from music, Dickinson has worked in various fields such
as fencing and aviation and Esgrimma

He is also an aircraft pilot and held the rank of commander for

the defunct Astraeus aviation company. Bruce owns an aircraft
maintenance company

6.. In 2015, the musician underwent seven weeks of

chemotherapy and radiotherapy to fight a cancerous tumor on
the back of his tongue, which he managed to successfully
overcome.