During last night’s show Iron Maiden thanked Paul Di’Anno or his contribution with a heart felt statement on stage:

Bruce Dickinson said: “Paul was instrumental in the first two albums, groundbreaking with Killers and the first album, an amazing voice devoted to rock and roll right up until the last minute of his life. For those of you who were born and still remember those early albums – when obviously I wasn’t in the band and he was – and those of you who were fans of the stuff he did with Battlezone and his own projects afterwards, and for anybody else that fancies having a listen to the tracks like ‘Remember Tomorrow’ and stuff like that, which are absolutely awesome, I’m just going to ask everybody just take a few seconds to just close your eyes, in silence and say just internally, mentally – if you believe in God, if you don’t believe in God, it actually doesn’t matter – just believe in what you believe in and just say, ‘Thanks boss, for doing what you did.'”

You can watch the video below: