Biff byford biography examples

British rock vocalist (born )

Musical artist

Peter Rodney "Biff" Byford (born 15 January )^[1][2] is an English singer best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Saxon.

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Early life

Byford was born in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire, the youngest of four children to Ernest Charles and Irene Byford. He has a brother, a half-sister from his father's side, Enid, who is 20 years older than him and a half-brother Michael from his mother.^[3]

Byford was just 11 years old when his mother died.

"Being so young," he says, "it was a crushing blow. But that, I think, is when that will to survive was built in."

Only two years later his father, whom Byford describes as a violent alcoholic, suffered a terrible accident while at work at a textile mill, losing an arm after it was entangled in a piece of heavy machinery.

He joined a youth club band at When he was 15, in , having left school to work as a junior carpenter, his first