布鲁斯·迪金森

布鲁斯·迪金森（英语：Bruce Dickinson，1958年8月7日—），是位英国摇滚／重金属歌手、词曲作家、飞行员、广播员以及航空公司老板。他是重金属乐团铁娘子的主唱，他以宽广的歌剧式唱腔与充满狂放魅力的舞台风格著称。

生平

1958年出生于英国诺丁罕郡的沃克索普。他在谢菲尔德与伦敦念大学，于70年代开始音乐生涯，起初是加入一支在小俱乐部表演的乐团。1979年，他加入“英国重金属新浪潮”乐团参孙，他参与了该团两张录音室专辑，同时以艺名“布鲁斯·布鲁斯”开始获得知名度。1981年离开参孙，加入铁娘子担任主唱。1982年发行铁娘子的录音室专辑《兽名数目》。在铁娘子的任期内，他成为七张美国和英国的白金和黄金唱片歌手，使他在全世界获得极高的声誉。

迪金森为发展个人兴趣与事业，于1993年退出铁娘子，以学习飞行、实验各种重金属和摇滚风格。该团沉寂两年后由布雷斯·贝利接任主唱。他于1999年与吉他手艾德里安·史密斯一起重新加入铁娘子，并再陆续发行了五张录音室专辑。2005年，发行个人专辑《暴虐灵魂》。他的堂弟罗柏·迪金森担任过另类摇滚乐团风火轮的主唱。他的儿子奥斯丁·迪金森是金属核乐团耸立的主唱。

迪金森除了在音乐上的成就，也以追求其他领域发展而著名。最值得一提的是，他曾长期担任英国星辰航空公司机长与营销主管。多家媒体报导他兼任乐团主唱与民航飞行员的特殊身份，例如他亲自驾驶铁娘子乐团的世界巡回专机“艾迪一号”，载着数百名人员和十二吨演出器材，在世界各地举办演唱会的创举。星辰航空公司在迪金森离开后倒闭，他为了挽救老东家与当地的航空工业，成立卡迪夫航空公司，提供飞机维修保养与飞行员培训。迪金森也曾任英国广播公司音乐六台的广播主持人，拥有自己的广播节目。也创作过电视纪录片、小说、电影剧本。他也和罗宾森啤酒厂合作过联名啤酒，并参加过国际击剑比赛夺下冠军。

Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English heavy metal singer best known as the frontman of Iron Maiden. He 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. 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.

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. His mother, Sonia, worked part-time in a shoe shop, and his father, Bruce, was a mechanic in the British Army. His birth hurried the young couple, who were then just teenagers, into marriage. 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. This is referred to in his song "Born In '58" from the album Tattooed Millionaire. Dickinson started school at Manton Primary in Worksop while his parents moved away to Sheffield. Soon afterwards, when he was six, he was also despatched to Sheffield, where he attended a primary school in Manor Top. After six months, his parents decided to move him to a small private school called Sharrow Vale Junior. 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. Dickinson has a younger sister, professional showjumper Helena Stormanns, who was born in 1963. 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.