Four-fifths of the original IRON MAIDEN lineup reunited for the first time in 42 years this past weekend.
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Bassist Steve Harris, who formed IRON MAIDEN on Christmas day in 1975, was photographed with the band’s very first singer, Paul Mario Day, and guitarists Dave Sullivan and Terry Rance.
Paul wrote in a Facebook post on Saturday (December 29): “The gang almost all together since 1976, or thereabouts. I cannot begin to tell you how good it feels. Tonight will burned in my memory for life. I may say more later after I process this evening.”
Day’s latest face-to-face meeting with Harris comes four years after the singer suggested in an online post that he had co-written the MAIDEN song “Strange World” but was never credited for his contributions.
Day wrote at the time: “This is my opinion. When I sang in IRON MAIDEN, it was a new pub band and nobody wanted to see or hear them. We were all nobodys all trying to make the best music we could and fighting for an audience.
“In 1976, photos/recording were next to impossible to have if you were poor boys from East London, so I cannot prove I wrote the words and melody for ‘Strange World’.
“As for before the time of albums and recording deals, I would say it was creative theft, not deliberate, as probably I would have done the same thing myself to keep it clean and simple. I think, however, if it made me a mega amount of money in the future, I would have done the right thing and [made] amends. As back then we were all pulling for the same side and it still hurts to think the first-ever song I ever composed was on a big-selling album and nobody knows it was me. Not to mention how I scrape to earn a living while Mr. Harris is living like a god!”