Biff byford autobiography definition

Biff Byford

British rock vocalist (born )

Musical artist

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

Early life

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

Autobiography synonyms They were promptly married. It depends where you come from. Is this a new Golden Era for Saxon? Metalhead was an important album for us too, because it was a very heavy, dark album, very metal.

He has a brother, a half-sister from his father's side, Enid, who is 20 years older than him and a half-brother Michael from his mother.[3]

Byford was just 11 years old when his mother died. "Being so young," he says, "it was a crushing blow. But that, I think, is when that will to survive was built in."

Only two years later his father, whom Byford describes as a violent alcoholic, suffered a terrible accident while at work at a textile mill, losing an arm after it was entangled in a piece of heavy machinery.

He joined a youth club band at When he was 15, in , having left school to work as a junior carpenter, his first steady girlfriend, Linda, fell pregnant. They were promptly married. But the marriage didn't last, even though the couple had two children.

At 18, in , he was employed at the Shuttle Eye pit at Flockton, near Huddersfield.

Autobiography examples Retrieved 27 October Retrieved on 20 August I only vaguely remember it as we moved when I was four or five. Early life [ edit ].

At six-foot-one, he was considered too tall to work underground, in tunnels only three feet high. So instead he worked in the boiler house, manning a giant steam engine that drew up the coal from a mile deep.

Career

He was taught to play guitar by his best friend's brother, who led a local blues group.

Byford switched to bass, and passed through various bands in the Barnsley area. His first appearance on an album was in when he played flute[4] and wrote a few of the songs on the self titled debut album by psychedelic rockers Jumble Lane, a Holyground Records release.[5] He started singing backing vocals when he joined the Iron Mad Wilkinson Band, named after a local industrialist.[6]

Byford sang and played bass with a local power trio called Coast from around to along with drummer Al Dodd and future Saxon guitarist Paul Quinn,[7] when he formed Saxon with guitarists Graham Oliver and Paul Quinn, bassist Steve Dawson and former Glitter Band drummer Pete Gill.

Autobiography definition dictionary References [ edit ]. External links [ edit ]. It has an effect on you. When he was 15, in , having left school to work as a junior carpenter, his first steady girlfriend, Linda, fell pregnant.

The band was originally called Son of a Bitch, but changed to Saxon in They released their self-titled debut album in , and became part of what was known as the new wave of British heavy metal, which also included bands like Iron Maiden, Demon and Def Leppard. The band had commercial success as well, charting eight consecutive UK Top 40 albums and five Top 40 singles between and

At the end of the s, the band declined in popularity, with 's Destiny being their last UK charting album until Oliver and Dawson left the band and formed a new band with the same name,[8] though they were later forced to change it to Oliver/Dawson Saxon.

(Byford's) Saxon maintained a recording and touring career centred on Germany for much of the s, during , Peter took employment with a West Yorkshire kitchen furniture manufacturer as a salesman, before coming back into broader attention with 's The Inner Sanctum.[9]

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

reported on 18 January [10] that Byford was launching a campaign to have Britons declare heavy metal as their religion in the United Kingdom Census , inspired by the Jedi census phenomenon (where Census results suggested that Jediism was the UK's fourth most popular religion).

Biff byford autobiography definition Metal Hammer Newsletter Sign up below to get the latest from Metal Hammer, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! Wikimedia Commons has media related to Biff Byford. NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. In April , Byford released his autobiography, entitled Never Surrender after the Saxon song of the same name.

Byford released his first solo album, titled "School of Hard Knocks" – featuring guest appearances by Phil Campbell, Alex Holzwarth, Nick Barker, Dave Kemp and Nibbs Carter – in February [11]

On 23 July , Byford released the album "Red Brick City" under the band name Heavy Water. The album features Biff on bass and vocals, his son Seb Byford on guitar and vocals, Tom Witts on drums, and Dave Kemp on keyboards and saxophone.

Music videos were released for the title track "Red Brick City" on 7 May and "Revolution" on 18 June [12] The album was recorded at The Big Silver Barn and Reel Recording Studio in York during the Covid lockdowns.[13]

Discography

With Saxon

Main article: Saxon discography

Solo
  • School of Hard Knocks ()
With Air Pavilion
  • Kaizoku () – vocals on "She's Hot Stuff"
With Fastway
With Freedom Call
  • Taragon () – narration on "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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