Sarajevo Honors British Metal Star For Siege Solidarity

Sarajevo's city council has granted honorary citizenship to Bruce Dickinson, the frontman of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. Local leaders thanked Dickinson for coming in December 1994 to give a concert in the city as Bosnian Serb troops were holding it under siege. The singer was decorated at the Sarajevo city hall on April 6, a day when the city commemorates the start of the civil-war siege that cost more than 11,000 lives.