Bruce Dickinson makes your favourite artist/band member

[Liam]

HEAVY metal star Bruce Dickinson was returning to Britain last night after airlifting 200 Beirut evacuees to safety.

The Iron Maiden singer, also a professional pilot, flew a Boeing 757 to Cyprus, where the Brits had fled to escape the violence.

After touching down at RAF Akrotiri on the Med island, Bruce waited for the fully-boarded plane to be re-fuelled before being given clearance to fly back to Gatwick.

The mercy mission was the idea of the rocker, whose Iron Maiden hits include Run To The Hills and Sanctuary.

Dad-of-three Bruce, 47, is a first officer with London-based charter airline Astraeus.

A colleague said: "He was only too keen to get involved and help. He has a strong interest in the welfare of people caught up in international conflicts and cares about what is going on."

The first Brits to flee war-torn Lebanon, mostly women and children, had landed at Gatwick airport yesterday looking exhausted but relieved.

By yesterday more than 1,000 Brit nationals and dual nationals had been ferried to safety in Cyprus by Royal Navy ships in the biggest war zone evacuation since Dunkirk in the Second World War.

Dickinson > you all

[King Ellis]

Your move Travolta.

[Guest Chasing Ringy]

Well it beats writing shitty political songs.

[Big Tuna]

I don't even like Iron Maiden that much. But even I can say that's badass.

[Xero Gravity]

Bruce Dickinson is the coolest Bruce alive, alonside Willis and Campbell.

...but not Forsyth

[Cactus Drags]

He represented britain in fencing in the Eighties too, he's a legend.

[Skummy]

He also shagged my ex-girlfriend's Mum. True story.

[gunnar hendershow]

Yeah Bruce is pretty much the epitome of greatness.

[The Sultan of Swank]

I think this might justify the 170 bucks I gotta shell out to see them in October.

[probablyoliver]

Bruce Dickinson is my Chuck Norris.

[The Sultan of Swank]

Back off, I saw him first!

[Bushmeister]

He makes shitty music but compensates by being a badass. I'd let him do me.

[Benji]

Just in case anyone even considered questioning the thread title.

[Big Tuna]

Bruce Dickinson is my Chuck Norris.

[YI]

That is fucking marvellous. Top bloke.

[one of a kind]

Just all in a days work for Bruce.