Given that he wrote Saxon’s latest album in a hospital bed following his heart attack of 2019, Biff Byford would surely agree with Keith Richards’s old chestnut that ‘it’s good to be anywhere’. But to find Carpe Diem sitting pretty at No.22 in Classic Rock’s best albums of 2022, the 71-year-old singer considers, is further evidence of a band flourishing in their fifth decade.
Carpe Diem is Saxon’s twenty-fourth album. It seems that