Iconic heavy metal group's original vocalist dead at 69

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Alabama life and culture? Whatever.

ALABAMA LIFE & CULTURE
Iconic heavy metal group’s original vocalist dead at 69

Updated: Jul. 30, 2025, 10:45 a.m.|Published: Jul. 30, 2025, 10:44 a.m.


Vocalist Paul Mario Day and guitarist Kenny Cox of heavy metal group More perform live on stage at the Monsters of Rock festival at Donington Park, Leicestershire, 22nd August 1981. (Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images)Getty Images

By Mark Heim | [e-mail]
Paul Mario Day, the original vocalist of Iron Maiden, died Tuesday at the age of 69. ..: The heavy metal singer died peacefully at his Australian home, his family revealed. … Parade reports he had been battling cancer, but no cause of death was revealed.

Day was 19 years old when he joined Iron Maiden in 1975 but lasted just 10 months. … “When I sang in Iron Maiden, it was a new pub band and nobody wanted to see or hear them,” Day said in 2019 of his time in the group. “We were all nobodies all trying to make the best music we could and fighting for an audience.”

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Link broken, image broken

Link has a "%20" at the end. Fixing the link leads to a site that blocks people running ad blockers, so it is not very useful.

Image: You don't have permission to access "http://www.al.com/resizer/v2/4WRHNTJ4KBB5VNGGEIAUOOIQ4M .jpg" on this server (space inserted to make image link appear).

Image is probably in your cache. Your browser might not be fussy about spaces on links.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Images at AL.com never post correctly at DU.

By including it in the post, I can at least let people know that there is one. I can swipe it from another website later.

And good afternoon.