Heavy Metal artist, who suffered from cancer, joined the group in 1975 before training the More group in the early 1980s.
He was one of the first faces of the famous Iron Maiden group. Heavy Metal singer Paul Mario Day died at the age of 69 on Wednesday July 30 after fighting cancer, the musicians of the More group he had formed during his career. “He was a major figure in the new Wave of British Heavy Metal and a very popular personality of the rock scene”they wrote.
The singer had been recruited at the end of 1975 by bassist Steve Harris. The emblematic group had given its first concert to Poplar, London, 1is May 1976, before occurring in a pub neighboring Pub of the Startford district. Only, the one that was nicknamed Day remained barely 10 months in the collective. His partners reproached him for lacking energy and charisma. After the very ephemeral passages of Denis Wilcock and Paul Di’anno, singer Bruce Dickinson won.
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Head of the Sweet group
Thirty years later, in 2019, Paul Mario Day said that group members asked him to be “More present against the public”to be “Imposing” and to be “A hero”but that he had been unable to get there. “I received a warning for about three months:” Get back, get back. ” The funniest thing is that this unpleasant experience taught me a lot. When I received this warning and I felt devastated, it transformed me. »»
We needed a singer and when Paul arrived at the hearing, we did not look further
Andy Scott, member of the Sweet group
This painful episode did not prevent Paul Mario Day from continuing his adventure in music. In 1980, the singer formed the Heavy Metal More group in which he stayed two years. The collective notably occurred at the Donington Monsters of Rock festival in 1981. He then joined Wildfire, then took the head of the Glam Rock Sweet group. The guitarist Andy Scott also paid tribute to him: “We needed a singer and when Paul arrived at the hearing, we did not look further”.
