Bruce Dickinson pays homage to Paul Di’Anno during Iron Maiden’s show in Minnesota

On October 22nd, Bruce Dickinson, the vocalist for Iron Maiden, paid homage to the late leader Paul Di’Anno. Dickinson spoke on Di’Anno’s recent death during Maiden‘s performance at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dickinson took a moment to share the following about his predecessor in the renowned British heavy metal outfit before they performed “The Time Machine” off their most recent album, “Senjutsu.”

So, this next track is actually called ‘The Time Machine‘. And I was watching Back To The Future last night on TV and it’s true. It is 1.21 gigawatts of power that you need to put a DeLorean through the portal of time itself. I normally tell a story about that, we have a bit of fun. But tonight is — I don’t wanna put a downer on the proceedings at all, because our friend, our bandmember Paul Di’Anno passed away, as you are probably aware. And if you’re not aware of that fact, you are now. So, Paul was instrumental in the first two albums, groundbreaking with ‘Killers‘ and the first album. An amazing voice, devoted to rock n’ roll right up till the last minute of his life. So [I] would just like to give maybe… for those of you who were born and still remember those early albums, when obviously I wasn’t in the band and he was, and those of you who were fans of the stuff he did with Battlezone and his own projects afterwards, and for anybody else that fancies having a listen to tracks like ‘Remember Tomorrow‘ and stuff like that, which are absolutely awesome, I’m just gonna ask everybody to just take like a few seconds to just close your eyes in silence and say, just internally, mentally — if you believe in God, if you don’t believe in God, it actually doesn’t matter; just believe in what you believe in and just say, ‘Thanks, boss, for doing what you did.’ So, Paul, if you’re listening, this is a little message from Minneapolis to wherever you are, upstairs or downstairs, you’re having fun. Minneapolis, for Paul Di’Anno, scream for me.