If I may step away from politics Just. For. A. Minute. I'm quite saddened to hear of the passing of Paul Di'Anno.
A good singer, a good frontman, an important architect in the formation of Metal As-We-Know-It.
His albums with Maiden are probably my favourite of the ouvre - sharp and edgy in a way they just wouldn't continue to be under Bruce Dickinson (awesome as he was and is). I think I was given a vinyl copy of "Maiden Japan" as a Christmas gift one year, and to this day the opening drum beats of "Running Free" will be every bit as seasonal as anything by Burl Ives or Bing Crosby; my own personal jingling bells.
I got my picture taken with him after a gig in Toronto sometime in the early 2000s. I hope it still exists: a lot of my pics were lost in a flood some ten years back.
(Funny story, his backing band at the time were a local band I would later audition to join. Alas, I didn't cut it. Wonder who they eventually did choose. . .)
There exists somewhere a picture of me
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