{"id":803145,"date":"2020-01-16T15:07:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T22:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=939100"},"modified":"2020-01-16T15:07:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T22:07:54","slug":"ex-iron-maiden-singer-paul-dianno-sets-final-concert-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/ex-iron-maiden-singer-paul-dianno-sets-final-concert-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Iron Maiden Singer Paul Di\u2019Anno Sets Final Concert Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul Di\u2019Anno \u2014 who fronted Iron Maiden<\/a> on their punky, roughhewn early records \u2014 will say goodbye to fans this summer after his performance at Bromsgrove, England\u2019s Beermageddon Festival. His farewell, prompted by doctors\u2019 orders to quit touring, is set to take place on August 30th.<\/p>\n

In recent years, the singer, age 61, has reported numerous health issues, according to Blabbermouth<\/a>. He had a \u201crugby ball\u2013sized abscess\u201d removed from his lungs in 2016 and later had knee-replacement surgery on both of his legs, after multiple motorcycle accidents. He has had to perform sitting down at his most recent gigs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a tough four years waiting to play again,\u201d Di\u2019Anno said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cI hope to be standing for this show, and I\u2019m really looking forward to it. Standing up would be great \u2014 if not, hell on wheels coming to ya!\u201d<\/p>\n

For his final gig, he\u2019ll be supported by a backing band called Ides of March \u2014 the name of the instrumental that opens Maiden\u2019s Killers<\/em> record \u2014 which features former members of Iron Maiden from their earliest days. The lineup includes guitarists Terry Rance and Terry Wapram and drummer Doug Sampson. Of those three, only Sampson recorded with the group, playing the band\u2019s demo, The Soundhouse Tapes<\/em>, and some BBC recordings.<\/p>\n

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The group is planning surprises for the final concert, including songs Di\u2019Anno supposedly hasn\u2019t sung in decades. It\u2019s unclear what other concerts Di\u2019Anno could play leading up to Beermageddon, as his official pages haven\u2019t been updated in years.<\/p>\n

Di\u2019Anno fronted Iron Maiden between 1978 and 1981 and sang on The Soundhouse Tapes<\/em>, their self-titled full-length debut, Killers <\/em>and the EP Maiden Japan<\/em>. His gruff voice, coupled with the aggressive songs bassist Steve Harris wrote for the band, set them apart from the other leading heavy-metal bands of the time. The press then championed them as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Di\u2019Anno was eventually dismissed from Iron Maiden over claims of drug use that he\u2019s refuted.<\/p>\n

In a recent Rolling Stone <\/a><\/em>interview<\/a>, Harris shrugged off any punk influence, saying he didn\u2019t like punks because they couldn\u2019t play their instruments. Their speediness was just something inherent in their style. \u201cI think we were just naturally fast artists because of adrenaline,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not like we sat down and said, \u2018Oh, we\u2019re going to play fast.\u2019 You start with the adrenaline and get onstage and it was even faster than it was when you recorded it. Sometimes it can get a bit out of hand, but the energy at a gig can be really quite amazing at times. It was never premeditated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Paul Di\u2019Anno \u2014 who fronted Iron Maiden on their punky, roughhewn early records \u2014 will say goodbye to fans this summer after his performance at Bromsgrove, England\u2019s Beermageddon Festival. His farewell, prompted by doctors\u2019 orders to quit touring, is set to take place on August 30th. In recent years, the singer, age 61, has reported […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 23:59:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}