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Bruce Dickinson is best known as frontman for the multi-million selling giants of heavy metal, Iron Maiden, with whom he has enjoyed worldwide success for 25 years.However, his story outside of Maiden is equally remarkable. Prior to joining that band Dickinson enjoyed stardom with Samson, while his post-Maiden solo career has brought much critical success. Further away from his day job, Dickinson is a true renaissance man. A member of the British Fencing team, he also hosts his own show on flagship digital radio station, BBC 6Music, is a best-selling fiction author, and TV presenter for the Discovery Channel and Sky One. Dickinson is also employed by the commercial airline Astreus as a first officer, and even participated in a mercy mission to rescue British residents from Beirut during the summer of 2006. This book tells his story for the first time, through exclusive interviews with those who know him best: from his formative days to all his time in Maiden, through his solo years, right up to the present day, where Iron Maiden are rightly considered legends of music worldwide.

The rise of Kasabian has been a phenomenal one, driven by a mix of self-belief, hard touring and hard living, all from humble beginnings in Leicestershire villages. Their self-titled 2004 debut LP sold over 700,000 in the UK alone, and the band wowed crowds in festivals at Glastonbury, Reading/Leeds and T In The Park that year, as well as touring the US alongside Noel Gallagher. Their second album, Empire, was released in September 2006 to great acclaim and surged straight to Number One in the UK charts, selling to date over a million copies and they won Best Live Act in NME's 2007 awards.Outspoken frontman Serge Pizzorno's pronouncements as to the state of the popular music scene have hit a real chord with the music buying public as the band continues to ruffle feathers and break down barriers wherever they go. Standing on the verge of releasing their third album, the group look set to continue on their quest to achieve the worldwide fame of their inspirations of Oasis, the Stone Roses and Primal Scream. Through a series of exclusive interviews with contemporaries and those involved in the band's remarkable rise, the tale of Kasabian is told in its entirety for the first time.

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Bruce Dickinson, Sänger der legendären Heavy-Metal-Band Iron Maiden, ist eine faszinierende Persönlichkeit. Geboren am 7. August 1958, hat er ein Hochschulstudium in Geschichte abgeschlossen und arbeitet als Pilot für eine Fluggesellschaft. Zudem war er Mitglied der englischen Nationalmannschaft im Degenfechten, moderiert eine eigene BBC-Radioshow und ist Autor zweier Romane. Sein Chef, Steve Harris, bemerkte einmal: „In der Zeit, in der ich ein Buch lese, schreibt Bruce eins.“ Dickinson lebt nach dem Motto: „Wer rastet, der rostet.“ Aktuell arbeitet er an einem Kinofilm über den englischen Okkultisten Aleister Crowley. Der Biograph Joe Shooman widmet sich in seinem Werk auch Dickinsons musikalischem Werdegang und enthüllt zahlreiche Geheimnisse. Von seinen ersten Schritten bei The Shots über die Band Speed, die mit ihrer 1980er Single 'Man In The Street' für Raritäten sorgte, bis hin zu Samson und natürlich Iron Maiden – kein Detail bleibt unberücksichtigt. Shooman führte exklusive Interviews mit Wegbegleitern wie dem Maiden-Produzenten Tony Platt und anderen wichtigen Persönlichkeiten der Musikszene. Abgerundet wird das Buch durch eine umfassende Discographie von Bruce Dickinson, die sämtliche Solo-Veröffentlichungen und Gastauftritte umfasst.