United POP, the worldwide division of Deutsche POP, the well-known academy of music, media and the humanities, just lately invited IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson to offer a visitor lecture at a particular occasion for the scholars of the Music & Administration Bachelor High Up applications throughout their commencement weekend in Munich, Germany. A video recap, together with reactions from among the college students, could be seen beneath.

Regardless of being acknowledged largely for his connection to heavy steel, Dickinson can be an entrepreneur and is concerned in several inventive tasks. He is a grasp brewer and has created his personal model of beer. Moreover, he has a robust reference to the aviation sector, as he’s a industrial pilot and the present president of Cardiff Aviation. He has additionally served as director of selling for Astraeus Airways.

Dickinson is taken into account one of many world’s most storied musicians. Other than many years spent delivering high-octane performances along with his larger-than-life persona in IRON MAIDEN, Bruce has lived a unprecedented off-stage existence too. A real polymath, his accomplishments embody: pilot and airline captain, aviation entrepreneur, beer brewer, motivational speaker, movie scriptwriter, twice-published novelist and Sunday Occasions best-selling creator, radio presenter, TV actor, sports activities commentator and worldwide fencer… to call however a number of.

Eight years in the past, Dickinson had surgical procedure to take away a cancerous lump on his throat. The rocker, who had a golf gall-size tumor on his tongue and one other within the lymph node on the precise facet of his neck, bought the all-clear in Could 2015 after radiation and 9 weeks of chemotherapy.

Bruce beforehand advised iNews that he wished to cowl his most cancers battle in his 2017 autobiography, “What Does This Button Do?”, to boost consciousness of the situation, which impacts individuals who typically don’t have any or minimal historical past of tobacco or alcohol abuse. The people with HPV-related oropharyngeal most cancers who endure therapy have a disease-free survival fee of 85 to 90 % over 5 years.

IRON MAIDEN‘s seventeenth studio album, “Senjutsu”, was launched in September 2021 by way of BMG. The band’s first LP in six years was recorded in 2019 in Paris with longstanding producer Kevin Shirley and co-produced by bassist Steve Harris.

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