Paul Di'Anno

Paul Di'Anno doesn't get nearly enough credit for what he built. Before Bruce Dickinson polished Iron Maiden into arena-rock legends, Di'Anno was the scrappy, street-level voice that made those first two albums feel genuinely dangerous — equal parts punk snarl and heavy metal firepower, and that combination was electric. Running to the Hills and The Number of the Beast get all the glory, but go back and listen to Prowler or Wrathchild and you'll hear a raw energy that's almost irreplaceable. His post-Maiden years were rough — health battles, legal trouble, the kind of life that doesn't make for a tidy biography — but he kept performing, sometimes in a wheelchair toward the end, because music was clearly all he had and all he needed. He passed in October 2024 at 66, and the metal world quietly lost one of its founding voices. Rest easy, Paul.

Name (English)

Paul Di'Anno

Name (Japanese)

ポール・ディアノ

Reading

ぽーる・でぃあの

Born

May 17, 1958 – October 21, 2024

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Dog

Origin

Chingford, United Kingdom

Occupation

songwriter / singer / musician

University

Leyton Sixth Form College

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.pauldianno.com/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8E

Tags

• songwriter
• singer
• musician

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.