Paul Di’Anno Criticizes Ghost’s Cover of Iron Maiden’s “Phantom of the Opera”

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Ghost is a Swedish rock band that consists of 8 members of the group with the lead singer being Tobias Forge who has come out with music and covered other songs such as Tina Turner’s song “we don’t need another hero, “Covering songs from Genesis, and The stranglers which can be found on their youtube channel. The band would later make another cover and post it on their youtube channel their cover of “Phantom of the Opera” Which is a song by Iron Maiden. The cover would come to get 1 million views, a cover which differed from the original song, people commenting below of how unique it sounds, fans from Iron Maiden as well showing love or liking the cover Gohst made. The song captured the essence of Maiden, with many fans loving the cover from both bands. The cover of that song which would catch the attention of a member of the band the iron maiden. 

Paul Di’Anno, the former singer of Iron Maiden, has come to criticize the new cover from Ghosts. That cover is the “Phantom of the Opera” cover which states it “Fuckin sucks”, this comment on the song that he would make on Facebook. In a post about 4 days on his official account, a comment he gave out due to fans or followers wanting to hear the opinion of the singer, “Everyone asking my opinion on the ghost cover of Phantom well not that it matters but it fkn sucks” that is what he posted. But soon after the post he made he later came to delete it but Blabbermouth and other sources got evidence of the post he made.