SAMSON: Losing My Grip 1982 ltd. N.W.O.B.H.M U.K. picture-disc 7″ single. Check turntable video!

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SAMSON ‘Losing My Grip’ 1982 ltd. U.K. picture-disc 7″” single

FORMAT: 7″” PIC-DISC
YEAR OF RELEASE: 1982
CAT. NO.: POSPP471 LABEL: POLYDOR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: U.K.

Collectible limited edition N.W.O.B.H.M picture-disc 7″” single, comes packed in a clear PVC-sleeve.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=efFAkBGwfug

Promo video for Losing My Grip (Samson/Purkis/Aylmer/Dickinson)
The first release from the Nicky Moore / Pete Jupp era, proving that Samson could come back after losing two important members as a much more mature sounding band.

Paul Samson
Nicky Moore
Chris Aylmer
Pete Jupp

We all love Bruce Dickinson as a singer, but Nicky Moore was far better for Samson. In fact,  Nicky Moore has got to be one of the best blues/rock and rock singers of all time.

TRACKLISTING:
1. Losing My Grip
2. Pyramid To The Stars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efFAkBGwfug

A gorgeous picture single, “”Losing my grip”” on the A side taken from “”Before The Storm”” album and on the B side the the (then) unreleased “”Pyramid To The Stars”” written by the band with former singer Bruce Dickinson, but when he dropped out of the band in 1981 to sing with Iron Maiden, Nicky Moore has a great voice.
he has also sung for heavyweights Mammoth (with Gillan bassist John McCoy in the line up). Nicky Moore earns his living now by singing the blues providing singing lessons and for only 28 pounds, you get 45 minutes tips and tricks from a real live rock singers. Some who unfortunately did not live longer is guitarist Paul Samson and bassist Chris Aylmer who both died of cancer. Damn cancer. Now, listen and watch promo video to “”Losing my grip””. Gruesomely good hard rock with more than a few Whitesnake vibes. Come on, sing “”Na-na-nanana na-na-na””. Nice guitar solo too.

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“”Losing my grip”” on the A side taken from “”Before The Storm”” album and the the (then) unreleased “”Pyramid To The Stars”” written by the band with former singer Bruce Dickinson, but when he dropped out of the band in 1981 to sing with Iron Maiden, Nicky Moore has a great voice.
he has also sung for heavyweights Mammoth (with Gillan bassist John McCoy in the line up). Nicky Moore earns his living now by singing the blues providing singing lessons and for only 28 pounds, you get 45 minutes tips and tricks from a real live rock singers. Some who unfortunately did not live longer is guitarist Paul Samson and bassist Chris Aylmer who both died of cancer. Damn cancer. Now, listen and watch promo video to “”Losing my grip””. Gruesomely good hard rock with more than a few Whitesnake vibes. Come on, sing “”Na-na-nanana na-na-na””. Nice guitar solo too


Paul Samson: NWOBHM’s lost star

Samson was the founder, guitarist and guiding light of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal act that bore his name. Born Paul Sanson on June 4, 1953, he sang lead vocals on Samson’s 1979 debut, Survivors, produced by John McCoy of Gillan, (despite Bruce Bruce, later Bruce Dickinson, appearing on its sleeve). Bruce debuted with the band on the following year’s Head On, which had a cover starring the band’s notorious, mysterious masked drummer Thunderstick.

Samson in 1980 – Bruce Dickinson left, Paul Samson right

Head On was a remarkable, powerful album, full of unusual rhythmic patterns and unconventional song structures, but although it was awarded five stars by Geoff Barton in Sounds the band’s fate had long since been sealed due to the signing of a restrictive management deal. A legal dispute with said company prevented the band from earning money for a year and delayed their next record, Shock Tactics, until the spring of 1981 – a lifetime at such a pivotal point in Samson’s career.

That same summer, following triumph at the Reading Festival, Bruce was invited by Iron Maiden to replace Paul Di’Anno. “We had still believed that a hit single was all it would take for us to catch up with Maiden and Def Leppard,” Paul later told me. The news of Dickinson’s exit was a hammer blow. “They [Maiden] had their next two years mapped out, whereas we sometimes didn’t know what we’d be doing the following week,” he sighed.

Former Tiger man-mountain Nicky Moore joined Samson for Before The Stormand Don’t Get Mad, Get Even. Paul then made solo records and formed the band Paul Samson’s Empire. Increasingly, however, his heart was in the blues, though there were occasional Samson reunions – one of which Dickinson had threatened to be a part of until reconsidering at the last minute. A YouTube clip of Samson’s final ever gig at the Wacken Festival in 2000 features the song Test Of Time and sums up the group’s inner, fun-loving dynamic.

Samson and Nicky Moore recorded a new Samson album, provisionally entitled Brand New Day but posthumously called PS…, and released under his own name. He invited me to his house in Norfolk to hear it. By then Paul knew he had developed cancer but was facing up to things with bravery and the usual dose of humour. Returning to London I knew I’d never see him again.

His funeral, attended by former Samson/Maiden drummer Clive Burr, Thunderstick, Samson bassist Chris Aylmer (who died in 2007), John McCoy, Bernie Tormé, and members of Saxon, Angel Witch, Praying Mantis and Fastway, was emotional. Paul had requested that The Laughing Policeman be played as the mourners filed from the church.

Lady Luck was never kind to Paul Samson, that’s for sure, but he left behind a fine body of work. An autobiography remains unpublished.

“I believe in what I do,” he once told me, “regardless of those trends that always seem to come and go.”

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