Bruce Dickinson

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matic22 said:
Rush did this prefectly when they ended their career.
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Well, except for the part where their Clockwork Angels show was at a crummy venue (state fairgrounds, really?) when they came through my part of the country, so I figured I’d skip it and catch them the next time around, and then there was no next time. :(
 
srfc said:
WTF!

Is there an extra zero in there? Or even two extra zeros.

I doubt Maiden have done numbers like that on any boxset.
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It all depends on how you're counting. If you're going gold certification with a double CD album, you only need to ship half as many units as with a single CD album, as it's calculated from the number of discs sold rather than the number of albums. That's how I read it worked 5-10 years ago or so.

So if you take that into consideration, divide the 200 000 copies of the boxset by the number of albums in it (or even discs), then it's a very plausible number.
 
Yax said:
It all depends on how you're counting. If you're going gold certification with a double CD album, you only need to ship half as many units as with a single CD album, as it's calculated from the number of discs sold rather than the number of albums. That's how I read it worked 5-10 years ago or so.

So if you take that into consideration, divide the 200 000 copies of the boxset by the number of albums in it (or even discs), then it's a very plausible number.
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There's 9 discs, so let's round it up to 10 discs to make it easy to do the maths, and that would mean selling 20,000 of them.

I still would be very sceptical of him selling that many, and if he has then I take my hat off.
 
GhostofCain said:
Main points from the interview:

- When talking about musicians and politics he praises Peter Garrett as a musician who went into politics to change things.
- He mentions breaking the Achilles tendon 7 weeks before the start of the tour; he is still doing rehab (the specialist told him it would take between 6 months and a year to be back in shape). The heel does not hurt, but the hip does as a result of walking differently not to load the tendon.
- There would be no farewell tour. Any tour could be the farewell one.
- His plans before Christmas involve going to the pub with his kids, a charity dinner, a conference, some business meeting and going back to do some fencing training again after his injury. Strangely, he mentions living in Paris with his girlfriend, but there could have been something lost in translation (by the journalist), as Bruce can be seen wearing his wedding ring in the pictures taken in Argentina.
- For the Concerto for Group and Orchestra 50th anniversary show he will be singing a few Deep Purple songs: When A Blind Man Cries, Perfect Strangers, Smoke on the Water, Hush and Pictures of Home.
- He says the solo album will be released in 2020 or 2021. He still has to finish the album, but he would like to do some touring with Roy Z. He mentions that the Soloworks box set has sold 200000 copies and that he is really proud of his solo albums.
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For someone who's been into the Oils a LOT since 2017, this is very cool to read. I had no clue Dickinson would be so aware or -better-: respect Peter Garrett, who went into politics from 2004-2013. Bruce might have read his biography.
 
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matic22 said:
Dunno... Some private-life obsessive people were convinced a year ago that Bruce separated from his wife and has a girlfriend from Scandinavia, but that has gone quiet since. Not really that I care. Could be an open marriage.
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As long as he goes back to singing like in 2018, I do not really care. :)
 
srfc said:
There's 9 discs, so let's round it up to 10 discs to make it easy to do the maths, and that would mean selling 20,000 of them.

I still would be very sceptical of him selling that many, and if he has then I take my hat off.
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I'd say it is highly unlikely he would have sold that many copies.
 
Yax said:
It all depends on how you're counting. If you're going gold certification with a double CD album, you only need to ship half as many units as with a single CD album, as it's calculated from the number of discs sold rather than the number of albums. That's how I read it worked 5-10 years ago or so.

So if you take that into consideration, divide the 200 000 copies of the boxset by the number of albums in it (or even discs), then it's a very plausible number.
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That's how it used to work, but not anymore. Album length is now the determining factor. I think albums over 100 minutes long get counted twice, but anything below that won't be, no matter the amount of CDs it has. That's why TBOS was not double-counted - whatever the number it's reported as selling is the actual number of units moved (or shipped to retailers, as the case tends to be). I don't know how the counting works beyond that (logically you'd assume it goes up in 50 minute increments since that seems to be the "standard" length of an album under this definition) but it's kind of irrelevant anyway, since Bruce most definitely did not sell 20k copies of his boxset, let alone 200k.
 
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GhostofCain said:
Strangely, he mentions living in Paris with his girlfriend, but there could have been something lost in translation (by the journalist)
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I just ran this past the boyfriend - his immediate response was "are you sure he didn't say he was on his way to Charles de Gaulle to pick up his latest aircraft?" :D
 
Black Abyss Babe said:
I just ran this past the boyfriend - his immediate response was "are you sure he didn't say he was on his way to Charles de Gaulle to pick up his latest aircraft?" :D
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: That was really funny!

By the way, according to someone at the official Fan Club forum, it seems to be true and there was nothing lost in translation.

I wonder if Bruce would find living in Paris terribly easy once Brexit is done and he loses his freedom of movement. :D
 
Lego said:
There’s been no actual proof of this posted on the FC forum, it’s still all just hearsay and rumors as far as we know.
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You are right. :) I should have probably mentioned - for the sake of completeness - that I was referring to a message by someone who confirmed what Bruce had (allegedly) said in the interview. The FC member in questions claims to know the lady well and said that Bruce has been travelling with her, she has been attending the gigs with Nathalie and Nicko's wife and that she went to the Argentinian congress event with Rod, Nicko's wife and Janick's brother.
 
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