Bruce Dickinson may well be music's most prominent polymath. Indeed, in 2009, Intelligent Life magazine declared the Iron Maiden frontman one of the greatest living examples, alongside such highfalutin names as Carl Djerassi (chemist, author, inventor of the birth control pill), Noam Chomsky (linguist, philosopher, scientist, political activist) and Umberto Eco (medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic, novelist).
Famously, the strings to Dickinson's bow are many. Once ranked the seventh-best fencer in the UK, he's also a pilot, a brewer, a broadcaster, an author, a composer and the owner of an aircraft repair business, all in addition to his day job fronting the Irons. And in 2016, he announced plans to pilot an airship around the globe. Twice. Without stopping.
