Bruce Dickinson Interview - BBC HardTalk part 2
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Bruce Dickinson interviewed by Sarah Montague for BBC HardTalk
29th May 2012
Iron Maiden front man Bruce Dickinson talks about coping with fame, flying planes, television talent competitions, and getting his hair cut. He seems like a very intelligent, down-to-earth man.
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The media is always baffled when metal or hard rock musicians turn out to be twice as intelligent as they are. They don't get it at all..
Actual artists in general. Or creative types.
His intelligence frightens them
Warren, I totally agree with you their as well. Not only is Bruce dickinson great performer with Iron Madien. But he also Intelligent person. This interviewer does not know anything about music.
Well, to be honest, people like Dickinson are the exception. Rock Stars might be a bit more conscious and educated or open minded than the average teenage pop star, but they are very often just heavy drinking outcasts or high school drop outs.
Poor guy, I don't know whether I should be pissed off or laughing. He handled it amazingly.
I'm amazed why he bother to accept this interview in the first place! But I guess it was the spirit, it was a golden opportunity/hard to say no back then..? 🤔🤷🏼♂️
Well spoken, intelligent and funny. Bruce is brilliant!
He would go down on one knee as a Metal Head! YEA 🤘🏻!!!!
He's also got a strong energy,funny and intelligent..love iron maiden music..💪
Exploring is more than just a geographical term. Finding new aspects in our lives is an extraordinary part of them. I find many interesting subjects in documentaries and conversations like this one. Thanks Bruce.
I love Bruce!!!!!
No. They're too awesome.
🖤🔥 Bruce Dickinson 🔥🖤🤘👌
brilliant.
I can relate. I also don’t listen to music. Creating music.
"Have you ever listened to ballads"
Bruce's face was like: "Bitch I've written them"
Just shows her lack of research
"mature your image!" Bruce totally put her in her place!!!
Valid question by the interviewer. I wouldn't say he put her in place.
“Do you ever LISTEN to a ballad?”
Ummm... maybe, since Bruce wrote about 20 of them 😂.
This ignorant woman has no idea about iron maiden, or music in general. She’s lucky Bruce is such a peaceful and self-controlling man, if I were in his boots I’d have walked right out of that interview.
My thoughts exactly.
Don't get angry when you have the power to educate.
@@alanfrost75 Such a twot she has no Idea what she is talking about.. she is trying this Gotcha Journalism approach and Bruce is taking the high road..
Steve Harris is the songwriter for Iron Maiden. He has collaboration but he's such an honest person and humble.
The latest Iron Maiden album is a masterpiece. Bruce, now 63, is performing better than ever, even after having throat cancer! An amazing person, incredible performer and long may he continue to create and inspire.
Indeed bro, you couldn't of said it better, up the Irons 👆🎸💯
Absolutely agree with you 💯pc!!!
UP THE IRONS!! 🤘🏻😎🙏🏻💯
Will I Am, whoever the hell he is. GO ON BRUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Mature our image" ? What an odd, loaded question. As if metal and the things it represents are somehow naive or incomplete.
yeah, she is a moron and she said that after the thing I've already took a shit on her for. graphic with the creature doesn't need to be childish by itself.
If the BBC managed musical acts… iron maiden would look like Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.
Bruce Dickinson for Prime Minister
Yep and kick Howard Jones out of the country LoL :-)
Bruce is a legend - intelligent, articulate and funny.
I can only reconfirm yet again the tremendously high esteem to which I hold this complex, mature, charistmatic and utterly COOL man. As for the BBC interviewer: for God's sake, do you really think being patronising with and speaking over your guests will make anyone really buy into the sophisticated image you are trying to portray for yourself?!
Stupid, stupid woman. What am idiotic interview from someone on a femanist crusade. Idiotic questions and attitude. Pathetic..... Bruce, you are a legend.
looks like she was told to provoke the interviewer, to make a desperate debate
@@zafferung4440 blah blah blah
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! MISOGYNY!!!!!
I am sorry, I must retract my prior comment about Bruce being brilliant. I had only watched half the video, and spoke too soon. Going off "half-cocked" as it were... ( that's a reference to guns/rifles that used a flint firing.. ahh... nevermind that ). Anyway, yes - I said " Bruce is a brilliant man ". I was wrong. I should have said - Bruce is totally FUCKING BRILLIANT!
I thought for a second you would say he sucks hard.
Juan Arteaga So did I
+Daniel Castro H.
oh yes. :)
he is what a man SHOULD BE LIKE
Had us in the first half not gonna lie. Was ready with the pitchforks to defend bruce but you saved it 😁
I had the pleasure of meeting Bruce when he flew a load of us to Iceland in 2005,the man is an absolute gentleman!he flew us there,did the gig and flew us back.The term legend is used to frequently these days but in his case it’s true.
I was on that flight.
I disagree... I wish they WOULD consider Bruce Dickinson a heavy metal stereotype! He sets a very good example on which to be judged.
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Bet she didn't expect him to be smart and BD owned the daylight out of her. You can hear how condescending the tone of her voice and Bruce would have none of it :P
She interrupts him because the show has a time limit, and there other things shes wants to ask him. Also, Bruce is a really good talker who tends to go into tightly knit details about what ever he is discussing, which is awesome! He is a very intelligent guy. What really needs to happen is that he needs to do a 2 hour documentary called: Bruce Can Do It Better for Cheaper! He is correct, the governments of both the US and UK, are black holes, laced with corruption. Nothing new really, it's just how human nature plays out. The civilized world is just going through what Rome went through (history repeats). It's just happening at a faster pace than the 500 years for the decline of the Roman Empire. Bruce should look into running for office. He may be able to slow the decline down a bit, Lol. Up The Irons!
The Roman empire is the Vatican now it never crumbled
A very intelligent man.
I seriously doubt the humanity of this interviewer (see "They Live").
Her overtly subtle diabolical nature is once again revealed in the light of a true soul.
I have met Bruce on several occasions and used to live above a pub that Nicko drank in. I was also a manager in a pub in New Southgate,London when the band came into play "Crystal Maze" on the video machine and I can tell you they are the most approachable and nice guys all round. Bruce is a true gent and will give anyone the time of day, just don't take the piss.
Paul White-Quinn e
Creep interviewer : & simply outclassed by Bruce as usual
Bruce is a brilliant man! ALL the guys in Maiden seem really decent Lads. Like they coulda been your best pal when you were a kid.
I love the abrupt switch in the interview from heavy metal singer to businessman.
Yeah and Metallica 'matured their image' too, look how well that's gone.
I'm looking at YOU Lulu...
Bruce us a legend, I'm a massive iron maiden fan, and will be till I die, up the irons!
So Bruce cut off that amazing hair because he wanted to look younger? The irony is that short hair makes him look much older!
As douchey as Bruce can be on stage some times, I love this interview, she got owned and his view on The Voice etc is so true. Thank God for intelligent, educated, well spoken metal musicians who have worked hard who can speak on behalf of their fans
Miss Brumwell, are you single?
"Will i am, whoever the hell he is" loooool
This guy is just too awesome, and not just for being the BEST singer in the world of the BEST band in the world, but also because of his amazingly opened mind!
Bruce, you sir have earned my respect to point where I don't know how much more I can respect you xD
It's wonderful what you said. I want to ask you: i cry so often because of pure happyness by listening to Iron Maiden. It is a reaction of intense happyness i have to come down after that. I cry. There is no other music in this world that gives me so much love and energy. Is it normal, doctor?
All the great metal albums had beautiful ballads...Planet Caravan anyone? Dream on? Still in love with you? Tangerine? Changes? ...mark of a great songwriter.
He is so enthusiastic, confident and confident. The interviewer is just doing her job. If it were me, I would not ask the hard questions as I am a fan.
Definitely one of my favorite people in this world.
Bruce Dickinson doesn't listen to music....music listens to him....
chumanitutanka Bruce is music
The interviewer is totally baffled by Bruce.
Bruce should bid to run Cardiff Airport - the WAG (Welsh Assembly Government) couldn't run a bath.
2:38 - 3:28 epic speech!!! I wonder if he knows that Lady Gaga listened to his music growing up and is inspired by it even today. She said so on an iTunes music interview.
Shame the first part of this interview is taken down by the fascists of Warner Music Group.
why?
What was in it?
I started being SERIOUSLY interested in Rock N' Roll only during 2013 because of my office mate at the time. For nearly 4 years I could not listen to Maiden's music. It was too rich in music and very moving.
Until a dramatic event took place in my life in the fall of 2017. The first of their songs I got attached to is DANCE OF DEATH. There is a small boy in the plot of the song that escapes from that dance of death that was the Black Death plaguing Europe. I am still so emotionally attached to that song that when I play it I get on my knee as the boy in the song plot does. And I used to escape problems, like the boy in the plot. Maiden and their character Eddie have been so instrumental to me that I stopped running from troubles and I started facing them in 2018. In this process, Maiden also unleashed that 'trapped' boy inside my soul. And since then, that boy has also become a writer of kids' short fiction stories, among many other things that I could not even dream of a few years ago.
Regarding Bruce's business ideas, I think it is laudable. Others have succeeded in this. One name that springs to mind is Niki Lauda.
The world needs big companies, no doubt about this. But the world needs more entrepreneurs who start small with bold ideas and then change the games.
He is very humble. Love him. Love his music.
Fucking awe inspiring man. Just like his music. I totally get that music is his outlet for inspiration gathered from other sources. Myths, movies, history, politics and science. Do people even listen to Iron Maiden lyrics? It's mostly High Brow stuff...yet they play the clip from "Bring your Daughter to the Slaughter". Could have used New Frontier, Aces High, 2 Minutes to Midnight, Flight of Icarus, 666 etc... What a bunch of hacks.
Bruce Dickenson's views on tax reformation are more integrated with the general health of the economy than the corporate escalating tax system. Ludwig Von Mises, one of the most influential economists of the early 20th century, suggested the same thing. Great minds think alike on certain issues.
He's actually making some excellent points and voicing very interesting opinions, 'simplistic' and 'uneducated' are certainly 2 things Bruce Dickinson is not
Such ridiculousness. Spending a set amount of your own money to create jobs. That's the simple idea that would work. Give it to the govt so they can turn it into nothing
Chris Callaghan also known as the red tape factory
This man speaks so well and brilliantly. A really bombastic and wise man. I hope England realizes that even though he might sing in a Heavy Metal band he is not a guy which most of the people in the world consider as a stereotype towards Heavy Metal.
I lol'd hard when she asked him if he wished to mature the band.
For the record, I don't listen to any other music apart from what HE creates either. ^^
I love Bruce, to my ears he has the most amazing voice, and he also has a great character and personality that comes across in all his work, interviews, and everything he does.
I listen to a lot of artists but I love Maiden to death.
Remember Finchley and Stuart and that upstairs semi flat in 1980? It's me Mike the guitarist and I need help. Do something. Now. Ok?
Bruce? conservative?, that was a turn off!
I am a classical liberal. Never mind that Dickinson is a conservative. I love his music. To me his political leanings should not diminish his talent.
He's so right....bad ass.
Love Bruce.
She could be more kind with him...
Bruce is so awesome, I think that have a talk with him surely should be a beautiful memorable experience. :)
Exactly, and also very passionate. Maybe that is where the confusion came from. Educated people don't think in straight lines.
the interviewer embarrassed herself with every single answer by Bruce.
Respect the fact he mentioned the miners. The people we still owe a lot to.
You don't have to explain yourself Bruce...legend😊
Although, this interview was done quite a number of years ago. The interviewer is extremely patronising towards Bruce. You kind of get the feeling that Bruce is aiming the cynicisim answer towards people of her position or mindset in general.
I live in Iran & i was 9 when i saw Number Of the Beast for the first time. i wish he knew how much i like him & Iron Maiden band for shaping my life & helping me to keep my dreams in one of the darkest countries.from here love & respect to Iron Maiden & UK \m/
"It's those things that people call childish; those are the things actually, that motivate us and keeps our creativity precious" Beautiful!
The working class is conservative. That is why they are called the Tea Party in America. I am glad to hear this kind of conservative talk come from a guy like Bruce.
The working class is not conservative, conservative in America is very different to working class in Britain. He's rich, in it for himself, and even publicly announces he'd sooner spend his tax on his own business interests. Erm what?
Talk about forgetting your roots, a lad from Worksop would rather see his millions go into his business than paying for healthcare for the millions who would never see the sort of money he considers small change.
He simply knows that if he spends the money on JOBS he creates, it will do a LOT more good for "working class people" than whatever the government does.
The concept of spending money on your own, personal business interests instead of tax which goes on the NHS, education, armed forces, welfare etc. is totally against the working class. He wants to spend that money on his own business ventures so HE makes more money, not for some 'oh look at me i'm giving the working class jobs' bullshit.
This is what you're supposed to think when you have been raised to become an Etatist. However, experience shows that in 95 out of a 100 cases, private initiative does better and more effectively than government (hint: It has to do with human nature and incentives).
And no, if you listen, he is proposing that instead of paying taxes, those are available to people who put them in businesses IN GENERAL. Precisely because businesses build products, which could be the same products the NHS, education institutes or welfare deliver. Just more efficient.
I'm with you that police, judges and armed forces should be run by a government, because markets will fail to provide the right incentives here. But that is about it.
He wants to put the money into his business in Cardiff, that is what he says. He wants more money for his own business ventures so he can make more money, not for some altruistic belief about job creation.
He's forgotten where he came from, and he's turned into a money-grabbing fat cat. Look at the money issues his company has had recently and you can see why he'd rather pump more into that instead of pesky taxes.
Business cannot deliver the same standard as the NHS or Education, they first need a profit which doesn't exist in the NHS. To suggest it is better to have profit driven healthcare is barmy.
It's refreshing in your opinion.
It means he's a genius and he's left wing. Do you even know what a comma is for? Stephen Fry isn't pretentious in any way, in fact, I can't believe you understand the meaning of it if you find Stephen Fry pretentious.
You're implying lefties believe in Santa Clause and 'wiser' overlords, 'what does that even mean?' It's the most unfounded, idiotic statement I've ever read.
Either you're getting left and right confused, or your intelligence is questionable.
He had an awesome description and took the words right out of my mouth with how he felt about Simon Cowell and American Idol etc.
"Will I Am - whoever the hell he is".
When he was asked if he considered himself Conservative, he said "yes of course." He also said that Government restrictions and regulations hurt business. Lastly he said his eyes bug out when he sees his tax bill. Perhaps you should talk less and listen more.
He said hie eyes water not bug out. Listen indeed
Brilliant. Re "Mature your image" his response was a clear *no.* Iron Maiden is, was, and will always be the loudmouthed and morbid teenage history buff who sneers at condescending authority. Iron Maiden has always stood for thinking for yourself, educating yourself, and raising your fist in defiance.
That's not immature, it's the essence of eternal youth and it's a priceless thing.
Look past the mortgage, the career, the family... I'm a proud teenager over 40.
I love this interview. I've never seen anything done by Bruce that hasn't been fantastic and inspiring. What an amazing bloke.
I want to meet Bruce, he is the singer of my favorite band
I love that he had no idea there was a poll of people trying to get him Knighted lol
Quite sad to hear he's a conservative =[ Why couldn't he have joined the likes of Stephen Fry, Billy Bailey, David Mitchell? Be another of Britain's left wing, genius, national treasures.
He has lost some of his appeal to me now. Him and Michael Caine.
Love Maiden, the band that got me into metal. Bruce is so articulate very much like Alex Webster from Corpse
Bruce comes from a generation where respect had to be earned. Not awarded as part of a multi-platform recording contract...!
Frustrating interview to be honest, I know it’s not intentional (perhaps) but some of the questions are so patronising and irrelevant. Classic BBC who would never honour actual British legends like Maiden but will invite Ed Sheeran to everything they do and don’t even feature Maiden in their retrospective look at music of the 80s. And brandishing the obligatory pen that never gets used to make it look as though she did her research because she knows who Eddie is
I JUST LOVE YOU BRUCE AND THANK YOU FOR THE AWESOME MUSIC AND BLOODY FANTASTIC VOICE
Good interview. Most interviews like this are conducted by so called music journalists who's questions have all the depth and probity of a rice pudding. Get a serious journalist in and you have a decent and interesting conversation.
His high IQ and life experience completely overwhelm her...
Jeeez why is she interrogating him, so negative, typical BBC.
One of the greatest singers, one of the nicest guys out there.
Conservatism and conformism are two sides of the same coin my friend!
Oh yer.. And corporation are not people!
awesome interview and heard something I needed to hear .Thanks Bruce keep on keeping on .
HARDtalk
More like THICKtalk. As in talk with a woman with thick head
I had to stop watching this half-way through... not because if Bruce, which is as brilliant as ever... but because of that annoying and ridicolous interviewer.
Smart people are conservative!
UP THE IRONS!!
"will.i.am, whoever the hell he is", haha, love Brucie.
Always been a Maiden and Bruce fan. And now I find Brassed Off is one of his favourite films. 👌
Contrary to the Rock 'n' Roll stereotype he strikes me as a man with a wisely invested pension.
This is why this man is a hero! He is real, not some fake twit like will I am or whatever. Everything he says is genius!
Although admittedly I used bad terminology. He is not a 'religious man' he is a 'man of faith'. Difference being a religion implies an organized belief, within a group of people, and you believe, to some degree that you are right, and no other group can be. Where as a personal faith is a personal faith. It is yours, its personal, and you have no idea whether you are right or wrong, and your okay with that.
8:05
Born in a mining town in '58!
I think Bruce and the rest of the band should be up for Knighthood....end of fucking story
Well, actually, it is both Conservative and Liberal, following Neo-Liberalism and the Washington Consensus. You know those who strive for that 'middle ground'. They compromise their beliefs and they conform.
I'm grateful i got to see Iron Maiden during their North American Tour, i felt like i was apart of history with such an amazing band! LOVE IRON MAIDEN FOREVER!!
Man, Bruce put it so beautifully! Regarding the world and how we are constantly battered with how we are expected to be, so keep hold and protect the childish innocence inside all of us, as just because its said on TV, or a magazine, or the radio, or online...Fuck them, because its been said in the mediums, its truly how it is?...BOLLOX...As I will remain that kid forever in love with Rock n Roll showing me the way.
Fuck the government,
You know what I mean?
Started listening to Iron Maiden since 1981. I was 10 years old. Bruce is my hero!! lol Amazing individual.
Bruce Dickinson is my favorite singer of all time - and to know he is a conservative businessman is icing on the cake. Intelligent contributor to society - not a brain dead, doped out retread like so many other metal bands.
Eh, nobodies perfect/
Fear of Hardtalk
Fear of Hardtaaalk!
There is a stupid journalist in front of me!
Fear of Hardtalk
Fear of Hardtaaaaalk!!!
I don't know what I am doing on BBC!!!!