Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of heavy metal band Iron Maiden, is a talented fencer and a licensed airline pilot who has flown all across the world.
But is all just a covert way of covering up the fact that he’s really a spy? His good friend, director Sacha Gervasi, and podcast host Rich Roll evidently think so.
Dickinson sat down for a two-and-a-half hour podcast interview about his life, career and side hustles with Roll, who has recently interviewed the likes of Tom Holland and Orlando Bloom.
The singer talked about learning to fly, piloting his band around the world and the time that he was smuggled into Sarajevo to play a concert during the middle of the war.
Roll said, “The idea that you would have made for this optimal fighter pilot… in an alternate reality, or a parallel universe, or in some kind of sliding doors situation, are …