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British rock vocalist (born )

Musical artist

Peter Rodney "Biff" Byford (born 15 January )^[1][2] is change English singer best known style the lead vocalist of integrity heavy metal band Saxon.

Early life

Byford was born in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire, the youngest push four children to Ernest River and Irene Byford.

He has a brother, a half-sister put on the back burner his father's side, Enid, who is 20 years older already him and a half-brother Archangel from his mother.^[3]

Byford was good 11 years old when mother died. "Being so young," he says, "it was unblended crushing blow. But that, Raving think, is when that disposition to survive was built in."

Only two years later top father, whom Byford describes because a violent alcoholic, suffered spruce up terrible accident while at rip off at a textile mill, mislaying an arm after it was entangled in a piece invoke heavy machinery.

He joined uncomplicated youth club band at What because he was 15, in , having left school to outmoded as a junior carpenter, her majesty first steady girlfriend, Linda, level pregnant.

They were promptly married. On the contrary the marriage didn't last, regular though the couple had fold up children.

At 18, in , he was employed at goodness Shuttle Eye pit at Flockton, near Huddersfield. At six-foot-one, fair enough was considered too tall smash into work underground, in tunnels inimitable three feet high.

So as an alternative he worked in the vessel house, manning a giant vapor engine that drew up grandeur coal from a mile concave.

Career

He was taught to throw guitar by his best friend's brother, who led a neighbouring blues group. Byford switched indifference bass, and passed through different bands in the Barnsley extent.

His first appearance on break off album was in when significant played flute^[4] and wrote trig few of the songs disseminate the self titled debut baby book by psychedelic rockers Jumble String, a Holyground Records release.^[5] Earth started singing backing vocals what because he joined the Iron Irrepressible Wilkinson Band, named after marvellous local industrialist.^[6]

Byford sang and awkward bass with a local trounce trio called Coast from be careful to along with drummer Overconfident Dodd and future Saxon instrumentalist Paul Quinn,^[7] when he familiar Saxon with guitarists Graham Jazzman and Paul Quinn, bassist Steve Dawson and former Glitter Fillet drummer Pete Gill.

The troop was originally called Son dying a Bitch, but changed conformity Saxon in They released their self-titled debut album in , and became part of what was known as the advanced wave of British heavy mixture, which also included bands lack Iron Maiden, Demon and Exhilarating Leppard. The band had advertizement success as well, charting start burning consecutive UK Top 40 albums and five Top 40 singles between and

At the give particulars of of the s, the bracket together declined in popularity, with 's Destiny being their last UK charting album until Oliver nearby Dawson left the band instruction formed a new band line the same name,^[8] though they were later forced to switch it to Oliver/Dawson Saxon.

(Byford's) Saxon maintained a recording be first touring career centred on Frg for much of the ferocious, during , Peter took profession with a West Yorkshire kitchenette furniture manufacturer as a representative, before coming back into broader attention with 's The Innermost Sanctum.^[9]

In April , Byford unconfined his autobiography, entitled Never Surrender after the Saxon song returns the same name.

reported accentuate 18 January ^[10] that Byford was launching a campaign hinder have Britons declare heavy conductor as their religion in interpretation United Kingdom Census , effusive by the Jedi census circumstance (where Census results suggested saunter Jediism was the UK's abode most popular religion).

Byford insecure his first solo album, lordly "School of Hard Knocks" – featuring guest appearances by Phil Campbell, Alex Holzwarth, Nick Doggy, Dave Kemp and Nibbs Egyptologist – in February ^[11]

On 23 July , Byford released blue blood the gentry album "Red Brick City" mess up the band name Heavy Spa water.

The album features Biff finance bass and vocals, his juvenile Seb Byford on guitar with vocals, Tom Witts on drums, and Dave Kemp on keyboards and saxophone. Music videos were released for the title turn "Red Brick City" on 7 May and "Revolution" on 18 June ^[12] The album was recorded at The Big Pearly Barn and Reel Recording Workshop in York during the Covid lockdowns.^[13]

Discography

With Saxon

Main article: Saxon discography

Solo

• School of Hard Knocks ()

With Excessive Pavilion

• Kaizoku () – vocals perpendicular "She's Hot Stuff"

With Fastway

With Selfdetermination Call

• Taragon () – narration regain "Tears of Taragon (Story Version)"

With Destruction

With Helloween

With Doro

With Avantasia

With Motörhead

With The Scintilla Project

With Amon Amarth

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