Dickinson was not opposed to moving away from home because he had not built "any real attachment" to his parents, having been raised by his grandparents in Worksop until he was six. The income from their business success gave them the opportunity to give Dickinson-then 13 years old-a boarding school education and they chose Oundle, a public school in Northamptonshire. As a result, much of Dickinson's childhood was spent living on a building site, until his parents bought a boarding house and a bankrupt garage where his father began selling second-hand cars. By the time he moved to Sheffield, Dickinson's parents were earning a good living from buying property, refurbishing it and then selling it for a profit. He tried to play an acoustic guitar belonging to his father, but it blistered his fingers. The first record Dickinson recalls owning was The Beatles single " She Loves You", which he managed to persuade his grandfather to buy him, which made him more interested in music. ĭickinson's first musical experience was dancing in his grandparents' front room to Chubby Checker's " The Twist", when he still lived with them in Worksop. 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.
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Dickinson has a younger sister, professional showjumper Helena Stormanns, who was born in 1963. 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. After six months, his parents decided to move him to a small private school called Sharrow Vale Junior. Soon afterwards, when he was six, he was also despatched to Sheffield, where he attended a primary school in Manor Top. Dickinson started school at Manton Primary in Worksop while his parents moved away to Sheffield. This is referred to in his song "Born In '58" from the album Tattooed Millionaire. 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. His birth hurried the young couple, who were then just teenagers, into marriage. His mother, Sonia, worked part-time in a shoe shop, and his father, Bruce, was a mechanic in the British Army. Paul Bruce Dickinson was born on 7 August 1958 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
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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.ĭickinson 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 left Samson in 1981 to join Iron Maiden, replacing Paul Di'Anno, and debuted on their 1982 album The Number of the Beast. 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 is considered to have a wide-ranging operatic vocal style and energetic stage presence.ĭickinson began his career in music fronting small pub bands in the 1970s while attending school in Sheffield and university in London. Paul Bruce Dickinson (born 7 August 1958) is an English musician who is the lead singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden since 1981.
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