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Biff Byford (born Peter Byford, 15 January 1951, Barnsley
Barnsley

Barnsley is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Dearne, north of the city of Sheffield, south of Leeds and west of Doncaster....
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
) is an English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
 vocalist
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
 for the heavy metal band Saxon
Saxon (band)

Saxon are an England heavy metal music band, formed in 1977 in music in Burnley, Yorkshire. As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with 8 UK Top 40 albums including 4 UK Top 10 albums....
. Byford formed Son of a Bitch with guitarists Graham Oliver
Graham Oliver

Graham Oliver is an England guitarist....
 and Paul Quinn, bassist Steve Dawson
Steve Dawson

Steven "Dobby" Dawson , United Kingdom bass guitarist, founder of Saxon .It has been documented that Dawson was the inspiration for Harry Shearer's Spinal Tap character Derek Smalls....
 and drummer Pete Gill
Pete Gill

Pete Gill , is a Heavy metal music drummer, formerly a member of The Glitter Band, Saxon and Mot?rhead.Gill was one of the two drummers in The Glitter Band, then formed part of the original line up Saxon in 1976....
 in 1976. Prior to this, Byford had been the vocalist with Blue Condition from about 1970.

In 1978 Son of a Bitch changed its name to Saxon and released a self-titled album
Saxon (album)

Saxon is the debut studio album by heavy metal music band Saxon released in 1979 ....
 in 1979. Co-inciding with the so-called New Wave of British Heavy Metal
New Wave of British Heavy Metal

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal is a heavy metal music movement that started in the late 1970s, in Great Britain, and achieved some international attention by the early 1980s....
 at the turn of the decade, Saxon had eight UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 Top 40 album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
s and five Top 40 singles
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
 between 1980 and 1986.






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Biff Byford (born Peter Byford, 15 January 1951, Barnsley
Barnsley

Barnsley is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Dearne, north of the city of Sheffield, south of Leeds and west of Doncaster....
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
) is an English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
 vocalist
Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
 for the heavy metal band Saxon
Saxon (band)

Saxon are an England heavy metal music band, formed in 1977 in music in Burnley, Yorkshire. As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with 8 UK Top 40 albums including 4 UK Top 10 albums....
. Byford formed Son of a Bitch with guitarists Graham Oliver
Graham Oliver

Graham Oliver is an England guitarist....
 and Paul Quinn, bassist Steve Dawson
Steve Dawson

Steven "Dobby" Dawson , United Kingdom bass guitarist, founder of Saxon .It has been documented that Dawson was the inspiration for Harry Shearer's Spinal Tap character Derek Smalls....
 and drummer Pete Gill
Pete Gill

Pete Gill , is a Heavy metal music drummer, formerly a member of The Glitter Band, Saxon and Mot?rhead.Gill was one of the two drummers in The Glitter Band, then formed part of the original line up Saxon in 1976....
 in 1976. Prior to this, Byford had been the vocalist with Blue Condition from about 1970.

In 1978 Son of a Bitch changed its name to Saxon and released a self-titled album
Saxon (album)

Saxon is the debut studio album by heavy metal music band Saxon released in 1979 ....
 in 1979. Co-inciding with the so-called New Wave of British Heavy Metal
New Wave of British Heavy Metal

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal is a heavy metal music movement that started in the late 1970s, in Great Britain, and achieved some international attention by the early 1980s....
 at the turn of the decade, Saxon had eight UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 Top 40 album
Album

An album or record album is a collection of related Sound recording and reproduction or music tracks distributed to the public. The most common way is through commercial distribution, although smaller artists will often distribute directly to the public by selling their albums at live concerts or on their websites....
s and five Top 40 singles
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
 between 1980 and 1986. After this Saxon declined in popularity, eventually leading to a split in 1995 with Oliver and Dawson forming a new band with the same name. Byford's Saxon maintained a recording and touring career centered on Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 for much of the 1990s before coming back into worldwide attention with 2007's The Inner Sanctum
The Inner Sanctum

The Inner Sanctum is the seventeenth album by the United Kingdom heavy metal music band Saxon , released on March 5, 2007. A limited edition with DVD is available too....
. In April the same year, Byford released his autobiography
Autobiography

An autobiography is a biography written by its subject . The term was first used by the poet Robert Southey in 1809 in the English language Periodical publication Quarterly Review, but the form goes back to antiquity....
, entitled Never Surrender.

Discography

with Saxon

entire catalogue, see Saxon discography
Saxon (band)

Saxon are an England heavy metal music band, formed in 1977 in music in Burnley, Yorkshire. As leading lights in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal they had huge success in the 1980s with 8 UK Top 40 albums including 4 UK Top 10 albums....


with Fastway
Fastway (band)

Fastway are a heavy metal music band formed by guitarist, Eddie Clarke, formerly of Mot?rhead, and bassist, Pete Way, formerly of UFO ....


Bad Bad Girls (1990)

with Freedom Call
Freedom Call

Freedom Call is a Germany power metal band formed in 1998....


Taragon
Taragon

Taragon is an Extended Play by the Germany power metal band Freedom Call. It was released on November 20, 1999 by NTS Records. Originally available in France and Japan, Korea exclusively, the EP was re-released worldwide in 2004, as part of the Live Invasion album....
 (1999) - narration on "Tears of Taragon (Story Version)" with Destruction
Destruction (band)

Destruction are a Germany thrash metal band from L?rrach, in southern Germany. They are considered one of the "three kings" of the Teutonic thrash metal scene; the others being Kreator and Sodom ....


Inventor of Evil
Inventor of Evil

Inventor of Evil is an album by the German thrash metal band Destruction , released in 2005....
 (2005) - vocals on "The Alliance of Hellhoundz"

with Helloween
Helloween

Helloween are a Germany power metal/speed metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band is known as one of the pioneering power metal bands, being part of the German Heavy metal music/speed/power metal scene that included Accept, Running Wild , Blind Guardian, Grave Digger , Sinner , and Rage ....


Gambling with the Devil
Gambling with the Devil

Gambling with the Devil is the thirteenth full length studio album by Helloween and was released October 23, 2007. The single As Long as I Fall is download only and was released in late September....
 (2007) - spoken word on "Crack the Riddle"

with Doro
Doro (band)

Doro Pesch is a female vocalist, formerly of the German Heavy metal music band Warlock and one of the few female singers of the 1980s heavy metal scene, which was primarily a male-dominated genre of music....


Celebrate (The Night Of The Warlock) (2008) - vocals on "Celebrate" (track #2)