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Paul Di’Anno, Iron Maiden’s Frontman on First Recordings, Dead at 66

Paul Di'Anno, whose gruff voice drove Iron Maiden's earliest recordings, has died at the age of 66.

“Conquest Music are proud to have had Paul Di’Anno in our artist family and ask his legion of fans to raise a glass in his memory,” the label said. Di’Anno sang on Iron Maiden’s first several release, including their 1979 EP, The Roundhouse Tapes, and their 1980 self-titled debut, which put them at the forefront of a new era of British heavy metal. In the Nineties, he briefly joined the group Praying Mantis to record a live album alongside fellow former Iron Maiden member Dennis Stratton.

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