Why do you think the band didn’t break in the States?
But they couldn’t get anybody else, so I got the job.” “Actually, I was just screaming in a nonsensical way. “I thought I could sing like Ronnie James Dio,” Bayley says. That all changed when he saw an ad in a newspaper by a group called Wolfsbane: “Heavy metal singer wanted. “It’s a lot of working-class people doing minimum-wage jobs in dirty, horrible circumstances.”īayley got a job working the night shift in a hotel after high school and started to envision a career as a hotel manager. The earliest music he can remember hearing is “Be My Love” by Fifties crooner Mario Lanza, a favorite of his grandmother, but his life changed forever in the late Seventies once he heard the Sex Pistols, Motörhead, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Judas Priest.īirmingham was the center of the metal universe at the time, and Bayley immersed himself in the music during his teenage years. Ray Wilson on Fronting Genesis: 'It Was Like Being Taken to the Top of Everest and Thrown Off'
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