Tattooed Millionaire

Album: Tattooed Millionaire (1990)
Charted: 18
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Songfacts®:

  • In his book The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx from Mötley Crüe says he's the "tattooed millionaire" Dickinson is singing about in this song. According to Sixx, it was written about him having sex with Dickinson's wife.

    Dickinson gave his take in a 2024 Songfacts interview. "Everybody likes to think it was all about Nikki Sixx," he said. "And whilst he was kind of the frame, it was actually an amalgamation of a whole generation of stuff. Of course now, tattooed millionaires are absolutely the mainstream. Nothing to do with music."
  • "Tattooed Millionaire" is the lead single and title track to Bruce Dickinson's debut solo album, released in 1990. He was still with Iron Maiden at the time; he left in 1993 and joined back up in 1999.
  • Storm Thorgerson, famous for his album art, particularly for Pink Floyd, directed the music video, which pokes fun at some very Mötley Crüe-like rockers. In 1996, Thorgerson did the artwork for Dickinson's album Skunkworks.

Comments: 3

  • Aliceinhell666 from Hell Town, CoCan we please actually comment something about the artist of the song here, not his ex-wife's sex partners.
  • Jovan from Mount Pleasant, MiI believe Tattooed Millionaire is actually about the LA scene in the 80's. The person in the video who depicts Nikki Sixx (allegedly), could be many people from the 80's Sunset Strip scene. Bruce has said multiple times that he and Iron Maiden play music for the creativity, not for the partying aspect of the industry.
  • Rachel from North Jersey, Njwhat a fun guilty pleasure of a song...
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