(Keyboards, backing vocals, and duvets)

Date of birth 10th March 1970

Jimmy Dickinson was born on March 10th 1970 at Grimsby Hospital in Lincolnshire.  When Jim was two years old the family moved to Scarborough in Yorkshire, and when aged 5 he began piano lessons, eagerly encouraged by his father John.  Things did not go as planned.  He hated classical music from an early age and stopped attending piano lessons after hearing a Jerry Lee Lewis record.

Years later, and now in the 6th form at school, Jim was asked to explain why he had been absent for TWO MONTHS!  His excuse of "having flu" fell on stony ground when the headmaster read of a local group spending six weeks in London playing gigs in pubs for £20.  Despite eleven o-level passes Jim's academic career was over.  Also around this time Jim suffered a near fatal accident when he was shot in the face via an air rifle pellet.  Despite some remaining shrapnel in his skull the full effects appear to be minimal.

In the intervening years, Jim had been the local "juvenile offender" around Scarborough, but now dedicated himself to the band and his playing.  Living on kebabs and glucose tablets, sleeping in vans outside swimming pools (to get washed), support slots at The Marquee all developed Jim's character to become a forceful member of Little Angels; when he is awake! (This man has been known to sleep 3 days at a stretch!)

During the recording of Young Gods album, Jimmy's love was a custom built Hammond C3 organ, heavily featured on the album, with which his crusade was to bring spirit and soul into rock music!!

Since 1994...

In 1995 Jimmy teamed up with Bruce Dickinson, and Mark Richardson to form a band called b.l.o.w. with Dave Gooding and Nickey Boyes.  

John Dickinson wrote to me on 2 July 1999 with the following:

Hello, I have just found this site. I'm Bruce and Jim's father, and can really claim to be the number one fan! It's good to find people who still remember the band. The fans were the most committed and friendly crowd you could ever meet, and probably thought the band were much bigger than they actually were. They all bought the single as sonn as one came out, giving it a top forty place, but only for a week usually, and then it woud drop out. All this was really generated from the band's own touring, as the radio never played the songs more than two or three times, so most people never heard them. I still think they were the best live band at the time, giving a performance of such quality and musicianship, that was full of energy and excitement, and were greatly underrated by many. Bruce is now teaching and managing  at the Academy of Contemporary Music, in Guildford, which is fast becoming the best place in the country for modern music courses, and Jim has put together the 'Younger Younger 28s'  which is an elctro-pop band, very good fun to watch, catchy but quite ineresting on many levels. They just played Glastonbury- watch out for the singles. One is coming out soon called'Next big Thing' All the best        John Dickinson.

Well, the YY28's split up, and Jimmy is now part of a three piece outfit called The One Hit Wonders performing songs by artistes who have had only one significant hit record!!

Jimmy, aside from these projects has also been very successful in collaboration with Pete Freisen (ex- Almighty and Alice Cooper guitarist) in writing music for computer games on Nintendo and Playstation etc.  Don't ask me which games - I have no idea as I'm not a gamer myself.