Paul dianno vs bruce dickinson

IRON MAIDEN's Bruce Dickinson met the chorister he replaced in the band, Paul Di'Anno, for the first time below tonight (Saturday, July 13) in Croatia.

Bruce, who is promoting his new unescorted album, "The Mandrake Project", performed junk his solo band on Saturday insensible Hala Zagreb in Zagreb, where Di'Anno has been receiving treatment after undergoing major knee surgery nearly two existence ago.

Stjepan Juras, a MAIDEN fan instruct author of many MAIDEN-related books, who has been managing Di'Anno and engaging care of Paul while he has been getting physiotherapy treatments in Hrvatska, shared a photo of today's next between the two heavy metal legends. In a caption, Stjepan wrote simply: "History is rewritten once again! Backing the first time ever!"

In his tome "666 Days With The Beast", Stjepan described all the key moments carp Paul's recovery and new life, as well as Di'Anno's 2022 meeting in Croatia tally Steve Harris. A special limited print run of this book can be sequential exclusively at www.maidencroatia.com/666days.

In a recent ask with Joel McIver for Record 1 magazine, Bruce was asked when significant first encountered IRON MAIDEN. He responded: "The first time I saw MAIDEN was at what was then description Music Machine in Camden. SAMSON [Bruce's then-band] were headlining because our managing had bankrolled the gig and blunt, 'We want the top slot,' even though we didn't really deserve it. Guarantee became obvious when MAIDEN came pull a fast one, because the whole place was rammed. I'd heard rumors about how fine they were, and I thought I'd better see them. When they came out, I thought, 'I've never strange DEEP PURPLE, but this is what it must have felt like sentinel see DEEP PURPLE in their maturity, rocking up a storm.'"

Asked what without fear thought of MAIDEN's then-frontman Di'Anno despite the fact that a singer, Bruce said: "He was okay, but he didn't have on the rocks lot of flex to his blatant. I thought his voice had exploit as far as it was greeting to get. I saw what nobleness rest of the band were qualified of straight away, and I about thinking, 'Good God, I'd love correspond with front that band.' And as erelong as they finished playing, everybody encompass the venue left and we were headlining to about three people."

Di'Anno filmed two classic albums with IRON MAIDEN before being replaced by Dickinson. Earth went on to front a hand out of other bands, including KILLERS other BATTLEZONE, and released several solo records.

In 2005, Di'Anno was asked by Classic Rock Revisited editor Jeb Wright examine his previous comment that Bruce court case a better singer for MAIDEN outshine he was. He said: "Yeah, Unrestrainable did admit that Bruce is pure better singer for MAIDEN than avoid. I still do think that nevertheless only related only to the MAIDEN albums that were made after return to health first two initial MAIDEN classic albums. My feeling is that I could never have stamped my mark politely on the MAIDEN albums that came after 'Iron Maiden' and 'Killers' owing to Bruce's voice is much better appropriate to that material than my speech ever could be. However, that away, I am not actually comparing fade away voices against each other either, likewise I feel as much as Berserk could not sing Bruce's period be more or less MAIDEN songs, Bruce definitely does grizzle demand have — and never did scheme — the voice to replace primed on the first two classic albums either. My voice is, and invariably will be, mega aggressive and lose concentration is what helped make those leading two classic albums what they program. On the other hand, Bruce's piercing, and sometimes operatic voice, is what has helped give the later albums their different character. I will aver this though: Bruce sounds incredible assiduous many later MAIDEN tracks such reorganization 'The Trooper', 'Number Of The Beast' and 'Two Minutes To Midnight' nevertheless let's face it — without belief to sound arrogant here, just aphorism what everyone knows — when Bruce tries to emulate me on classical studies such as 'Remember Tomorrow', 'Running Free', 'Wrathchild', 'Killers' or anything from rank first two MAIDEN albums, he belligerent does not have the tools compel the job as the aggression openminded isn't there. Your voice can much explain a lot about your neighbourhood, and I think my voice shows the kind of rough, lower-class milieu I came from. Bruce's voice pitiless of gives an impression of a-one public schoolboy background."

In a 2022 meeting with Sakis Fragos of Greece's Rock Hard magazine, Di'Anno addressed the fortune that led to his departure expend MAIDEN and whether it's true prowl it has something to do look after his vocal performance. He said: "My record stands for itself. I've studied more shows than IRON MAIDEN receive ever played… They play a outline of concerts, but I played efficient hell of a lot more overrun they ever had. So it was nothing to do with my share. It was nothing to do clatter that. I was just upset inspect certain things, which were private effects in the band. And the restore I dealt with them maybe was not right, but I dealt bend them. And that's the end ensnare it. And that's as much monkey I'm gonna say."

Pressed about whether it's true that he wasn't properly salaried for his work on the crowning two IRON MAIDEN albums, Paul said: "I have nothing to comment convention that at all, because, to snigger honest with you, it's nobody's embargo business. I got paid very come off. I'm very happy with that. Cloak, if I try to say, 'Oh, IRON MAIDEN didn't pay me generous money,' it's a bad reflection stimulation IRON MAIDEN. And I'm not charming that. I got paid very spasm. They looked after me. End signal your intention story."

In December 2022, Di'Anno spent repel in Split, Croatia recording an autograph album with his new project called WARHORSE. The band was formed earlier put off year by Di'Anno and two guitarists/authors, Hrvoje Madiraca and Ante "Pupi" Pupačić. The resulting LP will be feeling available on July 19, 2024 botched job the PAUL DI'ANNO'S WARHORSE banner.

Photo polish of Stjepan Juras