Iron Maiden Airlines Closer To Beginning Service

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For a man whose fortune is estimated to be in excess of $100m (£66m), Bruce Dickinson does not need to work, let alone juggle the creation of a new airline and aircraft maintenance business with the demands of a 36-date world tour during which he will play to a combined audience of some 1.5m in 30 different countries.

But then the Iron Maiden frontman is no ordinary millionaire. Sitting with his battered WH Smith desk diary and a 10-year-old Nokia mobile phone in front of him, Dickinson eschews the trappings of wealth in favour of juggling his passion for playing to large audiences with what has become the 54-year-old rocker’s day job.

“The reason I do all the things I do now is because I love them. Life is too short to do the things you don’t love doing,” says Dickinson. “If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should… go and rob banks.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10092692/Iron-Maidens-Bruce-Dickinson-is-close-to-getting-his-airline-off-the-ground.html

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1. Nice! I had just watched "Behind the Beast" over the weekend :)