| His full name is Paul Bruce Dickinson. He originally went by Bruce Bruce (named after a Monty Python sketch). |
| His album Skunkworks is named after "the Lockheed Advanced Development Corporation in California. They build lots of pretty trippy high technology fighters and airplanes. They continue to build lots of stuff that the governments doesn't want us to know about, right now." |
| He wrote two novels about Lord Iffy Boatrace: The Adventures of Lord Iffy Boatrace and The Missionary Position. They were in the style of Tom Sharpe and were not critically acclaimed. He also wrote Set Up Your Own Record Label and helped write Running a Band as a Business. |
| Bruce was singing for the band Samson before he joined Iron Maiden, replacing former lead vocalist Paul Di'Anno in 1981. He left the band in 1993 to pursue a solo career (as well as his interest in flying), but rejoined in 1999 and released the albums Brave New World and Dance of Death. |
| An expert fencer, he was once ranked seventh in the men's foils for Great Britain. |