Kastro Pergjoni, operations director of the Cart & Horses pub in Stratford, London, England where IRON MAIDEN made its live debut in 1976, recently launched a crowdfunding campaign to help raise £20,000 (approximately $27,000) so former MAIDEN vocalist Paul Di’Anno can undergo his long-delayed knee surgery. So far, Pergjoni has raised £8,600, or about 43 percent of the goal, from approximately 340 supporters.
In an interview conducted in 2019, Di’Anno had this to say:
“I nearly died four years ago. I had sepsis (a potentially life-threatening condition caused by the body’s response to an infection) in Argentina. I was very, very sick. I just about made it home to England and then straight to the hospital. I’ve been in and out of the hospital for four years now. I had operations done on both legs.” – Paul Di’Anno
Di’Anno also mentioned that he had been unable to walk for four years. “It’s been very, very tough for me at the moment. Because of the sepsis, I keep getting infections, so they can’t do the operations on my legs and stuff like that when they want to do them. And it’s been very difficult”.
“At the moment, I’ve only got one knee. The other knee has been taken out, but there’s no new knee put in, so it’s been a cement thing. But I wanna play, obviously, but I can’t do that until I’m fixed. I haven’t stopped playing music, and I’ve got no plans to retire, I wanna keep playing, but I need to get well.”
Di’Anno recorded two classic albums with IRON MAIDEN — a self-titled effort in 1980 and “Killers” in 1981 — before being fired and replaced by Bruce Dickinson. He went on to front a number of other bands, including KILLERS and BATTLEZONE, and released several solo records.
If you would like to chip in for the cause, please go to https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/kastro-carthorses-2
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