Bruce Dickinson: ‘Hell would freeze over before I'd stop performing’

As frontman of Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson is a rock god, aviator and now cancer survivor. He tells Matt Munday why he won’t be swapping his spandex to raise polo ponies ‘like that bloke in Roxy Music’Bruce Dickinson bounces into the room half an hour late for our interview, still wearing his military-green cycling helmet and bellowing cheery apologies. We are in a small west London members’ club, whose handful of early-morning clients look like the sort of people who se