R.I.P. Paul Di'Anno

[Drago]

Was that used as theme music for summat once? [I'm not a Maiden expert ... although I do remember the madness around the single Can I Play With Madness! ]

If memory servesmit was used on a Lucozade advert in the 1980s starring Daley Thompson.

 

[AndyRM]

If memory servesmit was used on a Lucozade advert in the 1980s starring Daley Thompson.

Yup. Which is weird considering Running Free is on the same album.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Earplug time music as I call it, but I just have to have my say regarding this notion that Iron Maiden binned him then left him to spiral further out of control. The way folk were talking (not necessarily on CC) about him being found dead and 'penniless' in a 'modest' social housing flat, while his former band members are multi millionaires, you could be forgiven for thinking that he was a recent member, but no, it seems that he left the band 43 years ago! Why still blame his former band members when he hasn't been a member for such a long time?! In short, he wasn't their responsibility or problem.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...iden-frontman-Paul-DiAnno-died-penniless.html

 

[Drago]

I don't wish the guys memory any ill - hell, I'm an admirer of his work - but his dismissal from Iron Maiden was down to him and him alone.

Not only that, Iron Maiden went on to great commercial success due to Nunber of the Beast, a new sound only made possible by Dickinson's voice, vocal skills and work ethic, all of which enabled Harris to write the more technically demanding songs he'd wanted to do for a while. That Dickinson had to that point never had any vocal coaching made his performances and abilities all the more remarkable.

If Di'Anno had instead hypothetically continued with the band they'd have probably done OK but are unlikely to have hit the stratospheric heights that the band was later to reach with Dickinson.

So the Mail's quite frankly nasty story was based on a speculative future which almost certainly could never have been.

Even if he had remained with Iron Maiden it's unlikely he'd have been financially a great deal better off that he was, and his band mates would never have enjoyed the huge financial success they earned with Dickinson. It is what it is, not what it could never have been.

 

[C R]

Earplug time music as I call it, but I just have to have my say regarding this notion that Iron Maiden binned him then left him to spiral further out of control. The way folk were talking (not necessarily on CC) about him being found dead and 'penniless' in a 'modest' social housing flat, while his former band members are multi millionaires, you could be forgiven for thinking that he was a recent member, but no, it seems that he left the band 43 years ago! Why still blame his former band members when he hasn't been a member for such a long time?! In short, he wasn't their responsibility or problem.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...iden-frontman-Paul-DiAnno-died-penniless.html

Anyone that follows the band and knows the story, even Di'Anno himself, would tell you that the only person responsible for Paul's fate was Paul. And then I noticed you linked to a DM article. If the DM said water was wet I would start doubting it.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Anyone that follows the band and knows the story, even Di'Anno himself, would tell you that the only person responsible for Paul's fate was Paul. And then I noticed you linked to a DM article. If the DM said water was wet I would start doubting it.

His social housing flat in the DM report looks ok though. There are plenty of parking spaces and no noticeable litter. 🤔

 

[ianrauk]

I'm not going to click on that fascist, racist papers link to read it but I bet it doesn't mention the fact that Paul has said in many interviews, some quite recent, that the band did indeed look after him very well after he left the band. Even recently paying for surgery on his leg.

 

[MontyVeda]

Di'Anno himself said in an interview that he was spiralling out of control in his final months with IM and had he not been replaced, he mightn't have survived that year.

Anything you read in the DailyMail @Accy cyclist should be taken with a very large pinch of salt.

 

[C R]

Di'Anno himself said in an interview that he was spiralling out of control in his final months with IM and had he not been replaced, he mightn't have survived that year.

Anything you read in the DailyMail @Accy cyclist should be taken with a very large pinch of salt.

I wonder if the DM scribbler is confusing Paul's exit with Clive's exit, which might have been avoidable if he had been cut some slack.

 

[DRM]

I don't wish the guys memory any ill - hell, I'm an admirer of his work - but his dismissal from Iron Maiden was down to him and him alone.

Not only that, Iron Maiden went on to great commercial success due to Nunber of the Beast, a new sound only made possible by Dickinson's voice, vocal skills and work ethic, all of which enabled Harris to write the more technically demanding songs he'd wanted to do for a while. That Dickinson had to that point never had any vocal coaching made his performances and abilities all the more remarkable.

If Di'Anno had instead hypothetically continued with the band they'd have probably done OK but are unlikely to have hit the stratospheric heights that the band was later to reach with Dickinson.

So the Mail's quite frankly nasty story was based on a speculative future which almost certainly could never have been.

Even if he had remained with Iron Maiden it's unlikely he'd have been financially a great deal better off that he was, and his band mates would never have enjoyed the huge financial success they earned with Dickinson. It is what it is, not what it could never have been.

Very well put, it’s exactly what you’ve written, if the Daily Fail were so concerned about him, perhaps they could have backed his endeavors in his other projects to up the audience figures, I bet the writer had never heard of Paul Di Anno, and promptly forgot him 5 minutes after writing the article, it’s well known, and he freely admitted that Paul Di Anno’s worst enemy was Paul Di Anno

 

[MontyVeda]

Very well put, it’s exactly what you’ve written, if the Daily Fail were so concerned about him, perhaps they could have backed his endeavors in his other projects to up the audience figures, I bet the writer had never heard of Paul Di Anno, and promptly forgot him 5 minutes after writing the article, it’s well known, and he freely admitted that Paul Di Anno’s worst enemy was Paul Di Anno

DailyMail writers have one agenda... cause outrage.

(I haven't read the article concerned)

 

[DRM]

DailyMail writers have one agenda... cause outrage.

(I haven't read the article concerned)

Me neither, it's not fit to wrap fish n chips in

 

[AndyRM]

I read about 3 lines of it. Clickbait trash.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Yet me being a 'right winger', I don't throw my dummy out the pram and instead I read the Mirror and Guardian articles to see how they see things. I sometimes even provide links to both online papers on CC. I thought 'Fascism' was all about not listening to other's views while enforcing your own. Yet by refusing to look at DM links because one doesn't agree with them, well that's almost totalitarian thinking I'd say.

 

[AndyRM]

There was no point in continuing with that Mail article because I could tell where it was going, and as @DRM noted, the journalist likely didn't have a clue about Di'Anno before looking up his Wikipedia page.

He'll probably be surprised when he finds out about Blaze Bayley too.