SAXON's BIFF BYFORD To Publish Autobiography

"We knew we'd recorded a good album; we just didn't know it was that good …" recalls SAXON frontman Biff Byford of 1980's breakthrough album "Wheels Of Steel".

For over thirty years, SAXON has been led from the front by charismatic and larger-than-life vocalist Biff Byford. In "Never Surrender", he tells his story for the first time, from his working class childhood as a terribly shy schoolboy in Yorkshire through the mega-days of the early Eighties to the band's twenty-first century rise to fame once more. Sometimes tragic, sometimes funny, but always brutally honest, "Never Surrender" lifts the lid on the myths surrounding SAXON, as well as revealing the hard work and heartaches it takes to make it to the top and stay there.

Co-author John Tucker is a music writer and photographer with a keen interest in — some would say obsession with — heavy metal. His first book, "Suzie Smiled… The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal", was published in 2006.

"Saxon - Never Surrender (Or Nearly Good Looking): An Autobiography By Biff Byford And John Tucker", ISBN 978-3-931624-44-6, will be published via I.P. Publishing in April 2007. Distribution in the U.K. will be handled by Gazelle Book Services Limited.

"The MÖTLEY CRÜE tour was the highpoint of sexual adventures, but just the whole American thing really was where most of the groupies were. And like I said, I nearly died from too much sex and too many shows … I remember us playing this gig and I looked up at the side of the stage and Tommy Lee's there, having a blowjob while he's watching us. Talk about off-putting!"