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Paul Mario Day was the lead singer of Iron Maiden for a year.<\/p>\n
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“Paul was a huge part of the [New Wave of British Heavy Metal] from his time in an early version of Iron Maiden and of course his fantastic performance on the \u2018Warhead\u2019 album.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a well loved figure in British rock music and played many memorable shows not least the legendary 1981 Monsters of Rock show at Castle Donington with AC\/DC, Whitesnake\/David Coverdale as well as tours with Iron Maiden Def Leppard and many other legendary artists.<\/p>\n
“Mike Freeland remembers him fondly as a \u2018bloody great vocalist!’<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s an honour for us to continue to play his music and we will always think of him every time we hit the opening notes to \u2018Warhead\u2019.<\/p>\n
“We send our deepest condolences to Paul\u2019s family and friends and also the many fans around the world who love his music.<\/p>\n
“Play his music loud and sing along!<\/p>\n
“Thank you. Rock in peace Paul.”<\/p>\n
Day was a founding member of Iron Maiden, singing for the band for one year from 1975 to 1976.<\/p>\n
He was later replaced by Dennis Wilcock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"30 July 2025, 09:54 Paul Mario Day has died aged 69. Picture: Facebook Former Iron Maiden frontman Paul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-33313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}