Though Bruce Dickinson has seen and done it all during his time as a frontman of a leading band, and that he is no such thing as a bon vivant, we have never imagined that Iron Maiden’s gigs were kind of a monastery. His life experience led him to write an autobiography “What Does This Button Do?” where he takes fans on a journey through the most colourful elements of his astonishing life.
Such a workholic,Bruce said the book started life as a handwritten document compiled while Iron Maiden were on tour in support of “The Book Of Souls.“ “I get the occasional day off,” he chuckles, “which turns out not to be a day off at all.”
While performing in Australia, Bruce gave an interview to Beat where he stated he couldn’t write about sex, drugs and rock‘n’roll because:
“There’s far more sex, drugs and rock‘n’roll going on in the average rugby club on a Saturday night than on the entire Iron Maiden tour put together. There are other ways to have fun.”
“We really enjoy what we do, which is play music, running around. I like to really squeeze life for all it’s worth. One chapter is about when I got diagnosed with throat cancer. It’s reasonably graphic I suppose.”
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!