Saxon
Saxon vocalist Peter "Biff"
Byford is a Yorkshireman with strictly old-school values. Once
photographed enjoying a cup of tea while his wife washed his car with
her broken arm in a sling, he likes his metal plain and simple.
Saxon are best remembered for early-80s
hits such as Wheels Of Steel and 747 (Strangers In The
Night); thunderous gauche heavy metal anthems delivered with
indomitable gusto. After years in the wilderness laboring under the
unfortunate moniker of Son Of A Bitch, Saxon suddenly burst forth in
big style from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, in 1979 with a debut album
issued on little-known Carrere Records (a label better known for
French disco releases than for daubs of South Yorkshire war paint).
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