IRON MAIDEN Singer To Host DISCOVERY CHANNEL Documentary

October 14, 2004

Eric Fetters of HeraldNet.com reports: While Bruce Dickinson waited for his camera crew to set up inside the Boeing Co.'s Everett plant, two slightly sheepish mechanics asked for an autograph.

It's not every day a heavy-metal music legend comes to visit.

Dickinson's name might not jump out to pop music fans, but the mechanics knew him as the voice of heavy metal band IRON MAIDEN.

Dickinson, 46, was lead singer on seven consecutive IRON MAIDEN albums that went platinum or gold during the 1980s and early 1990s.

He's also a commercial airline pilot with an intense interest in aviation, which explains why one of the gods of metal was inside Boeing's cavernous 747 assembly building on Wednesday. Dickinson is the host of a documentary series tentatively titled "Flying Heavy Metal" that's scheduled to air next year on the European version of the Discovery Channel.

"We looked at doing a reality TV show about training airline pilots, and it morphed into this — a five-part series about the development of the airliner since 1945," Dickinson said. Read more.

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