According to blabbermouth.net, in a recent interview, former Iron Maiden frontman Paul Di’Anno compared bassist Steve Harris to Adolf Hitler, said he wrote “20-times better songs” than Harris’ and claimed Maiden is all about “money, money, money, money – nobody else counts.”
Di’Anno’s comments came during a press conference in Argentina last month. The singer was in the middle of a solo tour of the South American country.
A member of the audience questioned Di’Anno about his rumored drug use and asked whether it contributed to his departure from Maiden.
Di’Anno raged, “Where the fuck do you people get this from? I left Iron Maiden because they were going too heavy metal, and Iron Maiden is a money-making machine, and I don’t give a fuck about it. It was not about drugs; it was nothing like that.
Me and Steve [Harris]… I [wrote] the song Killers, Steve had [what he thought] were better songs. I thought his songs were shit. Nothing to do with drugs; nothing whatsoever. Check your facts or otherwise this interview is over… I hate that! I fucking hate that!
Because people… You say something but you don’t know. Well, I’m telling you. Iron Maiden is Steve Harris’ band. It doesn’t matter about anybody else – whether it’s Dave Murray, Clive [Burr], me… it’s Steve Harris’ band and all it is is money, money, money, money – nobody else counts.
And I wrote fuckin’ 20-times better songs than his, but I only got one song on the Killers album because it’s Steve’s – he must have this. Fuckin’ Adolf Hitler. I’m not interested. So there you go.
But you need to take drugs when you’re with Iron Maiden because they’re so fucking boring. And the only drugs were aspirin, because Steve [making hand gesture as if someone is speaking into his ear]… Fuckin’ headache.”
Watch video from the press conference below.
[Ed’s note: The above opinions do not reflect nor represent those of Eddie Trunk or EddieTrunk.com]
source: blabbermouth.net
46 Responses
But he has to use “ex-Iron Maiden” vocalist to get any press.
He sucked then. He sucks now.
Never liked him or his work post Maiden.
Bitter guy.
Lucky he was even in Iron Maiden!
He doesn’t sound like a class act to me.
Those first 2 Iron Maiden records are classic because of Steve not Paul. Paul was in the right place at the right time. He could have taken his great songs and achieved his own success. Instead he’s put out mediocre records cause that’s all he can come up with. They only want to ask him questions because of Maiden. Happiest person in the world right now is Geoff Tate cause the scumbag factor for ex singers just went to a new level. Maiden rules because of talent and hard work.
The Killers album is a great album, but I don’t think Paul could have handled the tasks after that. His voice in my opinion is flat sounding and not very exciting to listen to. Bruce on the other hand brings a sound and voice to Maiden and he does excellent justice to songs from the first two albums. I stopped listening to Maiden when he left, the vocalist they chose to replace him was just pitiful, but Bruce will sing songs from those albums and he sounds great. In fact they sound better than ever, never have had a chance to see them live, but love their music and have all their albums minus the dark time without Bruce. It is weird how Bruce left but came back, the same thing with Adrian he left, but came back as well. Paul even admitted to being booted out of the band for drugs in previous interviews as well. Maiden, Rush and Styx are my favorite bands of all time. Maiden and Rush keep making new music and I keep buying it. I watch both of their documentaries and concerts everytime they come on Palladia. Live After Death is my favorite live album and Bruce does quite a bit of material on there from the first two albums and he does them well. I hate to say it, but I like them more when he sings them.
Jealous much? I think so.