{"id":1400,"date":"2011-12-29T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2012-05-04T22:32:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T05:32:30","slug":"voice-behind-iron-maidens-number-of-the-beast-intro-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/2011\/12\/29\/voice-behind-iron-maidens-number-of-the-beast-intro-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice Behind IRON MAIDEN&#8217;s &#8220;Number Of The Beast&#8221; Intro Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20100917011618Iron_Maiden_-_The_Number_Of_The_Beast.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[1400]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1401\" title=\"20100917011618!Iron_Maiden_-_The_Number_Of_The_Beast\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20100917011618Iron_Maiden_-_The_Number_Of_The_Beast.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20100917011618Iron_Maiden_-_The_Number_Of_The_Beast.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20100917011618Iron_Maiden_-_The_Number_Of_The_Beast-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/20100917011618Iron_Maiden_-_The_Number_Of_The_Beast-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The actor Barry Clayton \u2013 whose deep bass voice was behind movie trailers and the introduction to the Iron Maiden song The Number of the Beast \u2013 has died at the age of 80.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An Islington resident for 40 years, Clayton was also a pioneer of black television and radio programming.<\/p>\n<p>He produced the Black Londoners radio programme for the BBC \u2013 the first black daily radio programme \u2013 from its first airing in 1974 until 1988 when he left to join Capital Radio.<\/p>\n<p>He also arranged for a Christmas link-up with Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad for a Channel 4 special in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Clayton cut his teeth at Joan Littlewood\u2019s famous theatre school after training in Poland. He did a stint as a producer for Granada\u2019s north-west mag\u00ad\u00ad\u00adazine TV programme, People and Places, and narrated the children\u2019s television programme Count Duckula.<\/p>\n<p>This was reported by London&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islingtontribune.com\/news\/2011\/dec\/pioneering-black-radio-broadcaster-barry-clayton-has-died-age-80\" target=\"_blank\">Islington Tribute<\/a>, and a full tribute will appear on it next week.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vft0pGaLcVk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actor Barry Clayton \u2013 whose deep bass voice was behind movie trailers and the introduction to the Iron Maiden song The Number of the Beast \u2013 has died at the age of 80.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}