It would seem that the earliest known recording of Iron Maiden from 1977 has found its way onto the internet. It is a 29 second clip of the band's second singer Dennis Willcock introducing the band right at the beginning of the show.
In the clip Willcock says:
“We’re called Iron Maiden. We’re all about a sound that’s called metal, if you know what that’s all about. Scrap metal, yeah. We don’t have enough room to move about here, by the looks of it, so someone’s going to go arse over tit, I should imagine. Here we go.”
Willcock was Iron Maiden’s second singer. Original singer Paul Day helped co-found the band in 1976 along with bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. In 1978 however Willcock was replaced by Paul Di’Anno who would record vocals for Iron Maiden's first two albums: Iron Maiden and Killers.
In addition to this clip leaking out, Willcock will play his first show in 30 years with his band GV1 at London’s Bar 12 on June 13. Quite a while to go without doing a gig, but I'm sure he will do just fine. At the very least it should be fun for him.
Hopefully more early clips of Iron Maiden will turn up sooner or later; ones that are of the band playing some music at that.
The 29 second leaked clip can be heard below:
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