Steve Harris Add to My Celebs Age 56 Birthday Mar. 12th, 1956 Born in Leytonstone, London, England, UK Height 174 cm

Steve Harris' Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Headbangers Ball Steve Harris

Main Movie Roles 2009 - Iron Maiden: Flight 666

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Founder of heavy metal band "Iron Maiden". Steve grew up in the East End of London, his father was a truck driver, and his mother raised Steve and his three sisters, as well as having various part time jobs. Started "Iron Maiden" in 1975, but didn't release any album until 1980, after numerous line-up changes. The first album was released on the 11th April and debuted in the British charts at number four.


TRIVIA:

• Father of singer Lauren Harris
• Is often refered to as a "control freak" by former and sometimes even current members.
• The darker tone of the album The X Factor has often been attributed due to problems in Harris' personal life while making the album. He had recently divorced and his father had also died recently.
• When he founded the band that would later become called Iron Maiden, the band was known as Gypsy's Kiss.
• He designed Iron Maiden's first logo which used the current Maiden Font, seen in all of their album-releases.
• Given that he had been the centre of attention in Maiden's early gigs the addition of Bruce Dickinson to the bands line-up originally caused small scuffles between the two as they wanted to both be at the centre of the stage. Bruce mentioned in The Early Days documentary that Harris occasionally elbowed him away, he returned the favour by causing Harris to trip on his extra-long microphone stand.
• Taught himself to play bass guitar
• Wrote the song "Blood Brothers" in honor of his father, who died while Steve was on tour.

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