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NEW YORK -- Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has worn many hats and even “some incredibly ridiculous trousers,” as he puts it. Rock star, airline pilot and cancer survivor are some of what has defined him.
Now he can add spoken-word performer.Following in the heels of Henry Rollins, another rock star-turned-performance artist, Dickinson is about to resume his spoken-word U.S. tour.
Onstage, he speaks about his life, being a rock star and a host of other topics, including his bout with throat cancer.Then, after a short break, he'll load up Iron Maiden’s plane — a 747 called “Ed Force One,” named after the band’s iconic demonic mascot, Eddie — and embark on a world tour playing festivals, arenas and stadiums.Recently, the 63-year-old rocker and licensed commercial airline pilot spoke to The Associated Press about the joy of shifting gears with spoken-word performances, his fan base, and whether he’ll pilot the band’s plane, as he’s done in the past.———AP: What are the spoken-word shows like?DICKINSON: There’s no script, per say, and there’s no auto cue or anything else like that. I do have some images… I start to tell stories around the picture and then you just go off on a tangent about how I learned to sing and how I didn’t become a drummer and the weirdness of being in an English boarding school where you might have met Boris Johnson in another life and how I ended up wearing the world’s most ridiculous trousers on stage with Iron Maiden.
It’s like, “How did that happen?” So, it’s kind of that story.AP: Is it like stand-up?DICKINSON: I do use some kind of stand-up techniques and a bit of physical comedy, impressions of people and stuff like that. But that’s not my main modus operandi....
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K.J. Yossman On Tuesday, Ariana DeBose, Harris Dickinson, Lashana Lynch, Millicent Simmonds and Kodi Smit-McPhee were announced as the 2022 nominees for the BAFTA EE Rising Star Award.Nominees are selected for demonstrating “exceptional talent in film over the past year.” Previous winners of the award have included James McAvoy, Eva Green, Tom Hardy, Kristen Stewart, Tom Holland, Letitia Wright and Micheal Ward.The award, which is in its seventeenth year, is the only BAFTA honor to be decided by the general public, who can vote for their favorite online.Just hours after the nominations were unveiled, DeBose and Dickinson sat down with Variety to discuss their nominations.Congrats on the nominations! How are you feeling? DeBose: I’m just thrilled that I get to be here in London to celebrate this nomination and celebrate all of my fellow EE Rising Star nominees, because I am very well aware that every single one of them is massively talented and I find them all incredibly inspiring.Dickinson: Wonderful, thank you very much.