Dikinson Bruce Biography

Of course, maybe he coped well with these matters, but he became known to the general public thanks to frontmen in the famous Metal Britage "Iron Maiden". Paul Bruce Dikinson was born on August 7 in the town of Vorksop, the county of nottigemshire. After some time, their family moved to Sheffield, and in his youth, for unknown reasons, Paul changed its first name to the second and since then became Bruce.

He was carried away by rock music at dawn X when he began to listen to groups like "Deep Purple". At first, Dikinson tried to play his father’s guitar, then he tried himself as a drummer, but even there and there he did not ask him, and he switched to the microphone. In the second half, X Bruce replaced several local teams "Styx", "Speed", "Shots", but not one of them was particularly quoted.

The situation changed when Dikinson, under the name Bruce Bruce, joined the ranks of "Samson". Bruce recorded a couple of albums with Samson, after which he left the team, citing creative disagreements. Upon learning about this, Dikinson immediately went to audition, and according to his results he was enrolled in the official state. The cooperation turned out to be successful, and after a few months the group released the album "The Number of the Beast", which became the classic of the British Havy.

Subsequent releases confirmed the power of the Iron Maiden, but in a metal environment, rumors about the collapse of the team began to circulate. And although the case did not reach the complete closure of the project, there were really clashes between Dikinson and Steve Harris, as a result of which the vocalist began to look at the side.

It was followed by a proposal to record a solo album that Dikinson did, having attracted Yanik Gers to the work of his friend. Performed in the traditions of hard rock and pop metal and accompanied by a pack of hits, the album was in good demand and ended up in the British top 20, but after the release of the record, Bruce continued cooperation with Iron Maiden.

With the group, the vocalist recorded a couple of studios and only in the year left the composition and came close to a solo career. At first, Dikinson tried to work with musicians from "Skin" and producer Kifo Olsen, but remained unhappy with the material produced. The Balls to Picasso on the metallic roots of Dikinson superimposed his passion for the work of Peter Gabriel, the introduced of the Latin rhythms and the alternative vaib x, as a result of which the work came out too experimental for the broad masses, but at the same time was noted in the charts of many countries.

After the release of Roy and Tribes of Gypsies, they went about their business, and Dikinson had to look for new partners. Having invited the guitarist Alex Dixon to the company, Bruce with his participation was recorded by the Zapelnik "Alive in Studio A", and then with him also prepared material for the third studio. In the role of the producer, "SkunkWorks" was elected Jack Andino, who had previously worked with Nirvana, which only emphasized the desire of the vocalist to try himself in the grunge and alt-metal.

The album caused comparisons with the work of “Soundgarden” and “Therapy? Streams of complaints forced the vocalist to think tight, and in the end he decided to return to the Havi territory. Having resumed cooperation with Roem Zh and calling for the help of the former Maiden colleague, he wrote down the“ Accident of Birth ", on which weighty metal militants were balanced by mental ballads.

This time critics burst out a storm of enthusiasm, and Bruce rightly reasoned that it would be nice to preserve the team working on the fourth studio for the next sessions. The semi -conceptual album "The Chemical Wedding" was inspired by the works of William Blake and, although in general, continued the "Accident of Birth" line, turned out to be heavier and gloomy, and the pace of compositions decreased slightly.

By the time of the release of the concert "Scream for Me Brazil", Bruce's Relations with "Iron Maiden" normalized, and the vocalist returned to his native team. Despite this fact, Dikinson continued to act as a solo artist, and sometimes struck other projects. Nevertheless, he managed to publish fresh material only in the year, when the “Tyranny of Souls” disc entered the sale. The album was again recorded with Roem Zu and demonstrated the commitment of Dikinson to classic Havwi, and many observers called this release more interesting than the latest Iron Maiden works.

In the same year, the discography of Bruce was reprinted with the addition of bonuses, but in the future the vocalist focused on command affairs. Last Update