I know I can write, so I thought, "I'll do this myself." What's the point of filtering it through the lens of someone else? There's a couple of bits in there, just like two or three lines, that Rod, our manager, had actually changed. MOST MUSICIANS TEND TO WRITE THEIR MEMOIRS WITH A GHOSTWRITER OR A CO-WRITER. I do stuff everywhere else, but when I get home I don't do anything. I find it very difficult to do any kind of work when I'm home. The one place I hardly ever wrote it was at home. I wrote it on trains, on planes, in hotel rooms - and in pubs. I was giggling to myself as I was doing it. I'd just take my little notepad, go have a couple of beers and write about 1,200 words at a time. But you just can't take that down to the pub.
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I like a big, old-fashioned PC with a big, clattery keyboard. The only thing worse than my typing is my handwriting, but I actually make fewer spelling mistakes when I write things out. YOU WROTE THE ENTIRE BOOK OUT LONGHAND IN A STACK OF NOTEBOOKS. Video of What Does This Button Do? - Finishing the book Everyone assumes Maiden are kind of serious, but I find huge chunks of what I do to be very funny in an ironic kind of way, like, "Fuck, I can't believe I'm doing this!" Whilst it might be good for gossip magazines and things like that, it doesn't advance the narrative of the story. And also because a lot of things to do with family - births, marriages, deaths - if you write about that stuff, you start impinging on a lot of other people's personal space that's not actually to do with you. WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO WRITE A MEMOIR? YOU DON'T USUALLY TALK ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL LIFE IN INTERVIEWS, AND NOW YOU'RE SUDDENLY DIVULGING ALL THESE PERSONAL DETAILS IN ONE GO.īRUCE DICKINSON It's interesting that you say that, because there're a lot of personal details that I deliberately didn't go into because I didn't want the book to turn into some sort of bizarre public therapy session. But it would've been a pretty unreadable book."
I could've probably done another 60 or 70,000 on top of that comfortably had we included all kinds of other stuff in there. "My original manuscript was something like 170,000 words, but we chopped it back to 105,000. "There was an awful lot of stuff stacking up," he says while reflecting on his experiences - to which he can add launching a second signature Maiden beer, "Hallowed," and a new vinyl box set, Soloworks, of his solo music. Surprisingly funny and penned without the help of a co-writer - longhand, no less - What Does This Button Do? follows Dickinson's rise from anonymous grade-school troublemaker in Worksop, England, to world-class fencer, commercial airline pilot, beer magnate and - oh, right - frontman of one of the world's greatest metal bands. If that sounds like a lot of red tape just to read the life story of one of heavy metal's most revered singers, well. Then we had to sign a legally binding non-disclosure agreement.
The book is so top secret at this point that we had to agree both verbally and via email that we wouldn't show our copy - which isn't even the final version - to anyone else. In fact, he says his own bandmates in Iron Maiden have yet to read it. According to Bruce Dickinson, only three or four other journalists in the world possess copies of his new memoir when he speaks to Revolver on Labor Day.
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