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Bruce Dickinson: Iron Maiden

Bruce Dickinson is lead singer of Iron Maiden, an airline pilot, a craft brewer, a fencer and an entrepreneur Spurred into writing his autobiography by beating cancer, he's now also a best-selling writer with What Does This Button Do? 

Iron Maiden

Bruce at the Marquee in Soho "doing my best Ian Gillan impression". (From Bruce Dickinson: An Autobiography, HarperCollins)

With matching hair and trousers. (From Bruce Dickinson: An Autobiography, HarperCollins)

As a pilot Bruce Dickinson had to avoid the usual excesses of being in a rock band when he was flying them around. (From Bruce Dickinson: An Autobiography, HarperCollins)

When Iron Maiden was in NZ in 2009, the NZ crew for the shows (pictured) got to fly in the plane with Bruce Dickinson as the pilot.

Dickinson, left, began fencing as a schoolboy, but, gave up competing in tournaments when he was 23 and ranked No. 7 in Britain. He still does it occasionally.

The De Havilland Mosquito restored by Avspecs in Ardmore that Bruce Dickinson speaks so highly of. Photo: Courtesy of Avspecs

Bruce Dickinson. Photo: AFP

Dickinson's autobiography has been Number 1 in the UK.

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