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British Invasion: Saxon

by Scott on November 14th, 2007

Although they had a leading roll in the NWOBHM movement, Saxon never really broke into the U.S. heavy metal scene the way most of the other bands in the movement did.

Starting orignally as Son Of A Bitch with line up Biffy Byford on vocals, Paul Quinn and Graham Oliver on guitars, Pete Gill on drums and Steve Dawson on bass but shortly changed their nameto Saxon and started touring as support with more established bands such as Motorhead (You’ll see them tomorrow) .

With eight different line up changes over the years, Saxon is still recording and touring. Biff Byford and Paul Quinn are the only founding member left, but Steve Dawson and Graham Oliver are together and tour as Oliver/Dawson Saxon because some dip-shit judge also gave them legal rights to the name…which I think is stupid, but who am I right?

Saxon recently released Inner Sanctum and will be releasing a double DVD entitle To Hell And Back on November 19th.

For More Info on Saxon Visit Saxon747.com

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