Former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno performed his first solo live performance in six years on Saturday in Zagreb, Croatia, and reunited backstage along with his former bandmate and Maiden bassist Steve Harris when the steel giants resumed their Legacy of the Beast tour in the identical metropolis the next day.
You possibly can see footage from Di’Anno’s present and his reunion with Harris under.
Di’Anno, who sang on Iron Maiden’s eponymous 1980 debut and 1981’s Killers earlier than being fired and changed by Bruce Dickinson, carried out on the Bikers Beer Manufacturing unit in Zagreb, his first present since 2016, in accordance with setlist.fm. The 12-song set consisted virtually solely of songs off the primary two Maiden albums, together with “Wrathchild,” “Prowler,” “Murders within the Rue Morgue” and “Phantom of the Opera.” Di’Anno ended the evening with a canopy of Intercourse Pistols’ “Holidays within the Solar.”
The 64-year-old singer has encountered a number of well being points in recent times. He’s presently receiving physiotherapy and lymphatic drainage remedies in Croatia to arrange for upcoming knee surgical procedure, and he carried out in a wheelchair on Saturday. Earlier this 12 months, Di’Anno additionally revealed that he had a near-fatal bout of sepsis in 2015, which hospitalized him for eight months. The sepsis and subsequent MRSA an infection postponed a earlier knee surgical procedure.
Regardless of his many well being setbacks, Di’Anno delivered a spirited efficiency on the Bikers Beer Manufacturing unit, with the group dancing and head-banging furiously to the classic Maiden tunes. Footage from final evening additionally exhibits Di’Anno shaking palms with Harris backstage on the Area Zagreb and telling the bassist, “I can not wait to see you.”
Iron Maiden’s Zagreb present marked their first live performance since 2019. The band’s 15-song set pulled largely from its classic-era catalog and included the primary three songs off final 12 months’s Senjutsu.
Watch Paul Di’Anno Carry out ‘Phantom of the Opera’ in Zagreb
Watch Paul Di’Anno Carry out ‘Wrathchild’ in Zagreb
Watch Paul Di’Anno Carry out ‘Prowler’ in Zagreb
Watch Paul Di’Anno Reunite With Steve Harris in Zagreb
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