He was just 57 years old. Go home, they said. Be with your family. Clive flew back to London on Concorde. Maiden brought in former Trust drummer Nicko McBrain as a replacement so the tour could continue, the show could go on.
Clive and Nicko were mates. No worries. Everything was cool. Nice bloke. Good drummer. At a number of earlier shows, Nicko had dressed up as Eddie to terrorise the crowd. There was a meeting. The atmosphere was tense. There was change in the air, and Clive, still numb from the loss of his dad, could smell it. And that was that. Everybody knows what happened next for Maiden.
What happened next for Clive Burr was a case of dusting himself down and starting all over again. He was grieving for his dad. Everyone except Clive.
Thirty years on, he says it still smarts to hear it. He was never a big drinker. No more or less than anyone else in the band. There was a lot of parties, and girls were throwing themselves at us. We all did. Clive flew back to London again, then on to Germany with his mum, and laid low. There was no real bitterness. I guess they had their reasons. So that was that. None of them would come close to matching what he achieved with Maiden.
RTC Libera et impera! Interesting to learn this. I always thought Burr left because of the start of his multiple sclerosis. Drummer A leaves tour. Drummer B plays for two weeks. B is liked more by the rest of the band. A can sod off, and in the official biography we do not tell what really happened. We make it look worse for A by leaving out the role of B, so everything is directed at A.
Burr seems to refute the bucket story as nonsense, but that has been presented as something Steve actually said. They can't both be correct. Are you saying Harris has been misquoted Foro? And he was… The multiple sclerosis had destroyed his motor function so much that he couldn't even speak; he was just making noises on the phone.
It was really sad. But when he gave the phone back to his wife, his wife said, 'I don't know what you said to him, but he was smiling ear to ear. And two days later, he died in his sleep. And I'm just so glad that I was able to speak with him one last time, make him smile before he went. It's so sad. NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment.
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In the mids he was diagnosed with a particularly virulent strain of multiple sclerosis. His Maiden bandmates rallied round and organised benefit concerts to pay for his treatment and help other MS sufferers. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later?
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