Paul Di’Anno, the founding singer of Iron Maiden, has died at his home in Salisbury, England, aged 66. This has been confirmed by the Conquest Music record label. The artist was going to perform in Bilbao next March 2025. The causes of death have not been specified.
The band has released a statement in which they say that their contribution to Iron Maiden “was immense and helped us take the path we have traveled as a band for almost five decades.”
Paul Andrews was born in London on May 17, 1958 and joined Iron Maiden in 1978, making him known. Di’Anno participated in the band’s first two albums: ‘Iron Maiden’, in 1980, and ‘Killers’, the following year. After getting carried away by his addiction to alcohol and drugs, he was expelled from the group and replaced by Bruce Dickinson to go on tour with them.
After his time with Iron Maiden, Andrews set up the band Lonewolf, which was later renamed Di’Anno and with which he only released a self-titled album in 1984. In an interview this year, Di’Anno acknowledges having met Dickinson to bury the hatchet: «Our conversation was private, so I won’t say more. Everyone thinks we hated each other, which is a lie. “That’s the press.”
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