Biff byford biography for kids

British rock vocalist (born 1951)

Musical artist

Peter Rodney "Biff" Byford (born 15 January 1951)^[1][2] is an English singer best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Saxon.

Early life

Byford was born in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire, the youngest of four children to Ernest Charles and Irene Byford. He has a brother, a half-sister from his father's side, Enid, who is 20 years older than him and a half-brother Michael from his mother.^[3]

Byford was just 11 years old when his mother died.

"Being so young," he says, "it was a crushing blow.

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But that, I think, is when that will to survive was built in."

Only two years later his father, whom Byford describes as a violent alcoholic, suffered a terrible accident while at work at a textile mill, losing an arm after it was entangled in a piece of heavy machinery.

He joined a youth club band at 14. When he was 15, in 1966, having left school to work as a junior carp