Iron Maiden lead singer, Bruce Dickinson, to release memoir

Bruce Dickinson has been the lead singer of the famous heavy metal band Iron Maiden for more than 30 years. Iron Maiden was was formed in 1975 and has played more than 2,000 shows and sold 90 million albums worldwide.Dickinson has worked as an airline pilot and captain, an aviation entrepreneur, a beer brewer, motivational speaker, film scriptwriter, twice-published novelist, radio presenter, TV actor and a fencer as well! According to the press release he has been writing his memoirs in longhand in seven notebooks over the last couple of years and throughout Iron Maiden’s The Book Of Souls World Tour.The book is titled "What Does This Button Do??" and, according to the release, “Bruce (a man who famously never gives interviews about his personal life) shares, for the first time, the most fascinating recollections, including his thirty years with Maiden, the early days, his childhood within the eccentric British school system, going solo, realizing his dream of flying jumbo jets and his recent battle with tongue cancer.”

The memoir releases internationally on October 19.