Now Di'Anno tells The Metal Voice: "I spoke to the wife and she said, 'Oh, my God - if you stay home for two months I'll probably murder you.' So I decided in the end, 'F*** it.'"

He explains: "I was going to retire because of a bad knee, and it was really pissing me off. I thought about quitting - not because I wanted to, but I thought, 'This could get worse; I'm doing more damage to it.' Then I thought, 'It doesn't make a difference. It's about the voice.'"