Tag: Judas Priest
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Heavy Rock On Trial: Why Is That Man Screaming So Much?
I’m putting heavy rock on trial! Have your say! Whatever Happened To My Rock n Roll Part 7 Twenty five years on from the peak of heavy rock’s commercial popularity in 1988, this series asks why heavy rockers no longer dominate the charts and seeks to highlight the crimes that Heavy Rock is accused of,…
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Beelzebub Had A Devil For A Sideboard and Other Misheard Lyrics
With the possible exception of deciphering the lyrics to 2Unlimited’s “No Limits” (it really loses its sparkle when listening to the 12″ extended remix. By Pete Waterman) it’s quite fun to decipher lyrics, mainly because there’s quite a lot of scope to get it wrong. You have probably seen that there’s an entire website devoted…
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Sorry, Frampton Comes Alive, But The Best Album of 1976 Was Aerosmith’s Rocks
As expected, Aerosmith‘s ‘Rocks’ did not feature heavily in the BBC’s The Great Album Showdown – a show that sought to identify the Finest Rock Album of All Time. Yet in my estimation it was certainly worthy of a second look… The rise of Aerosmith in the USA in 1975 was stratospheric. Sales of ‘Toys…
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Rock On! Annual 1980. Definitely Not Sexist. Even If You’re A Bird.
One of my favourite Christmas presents this year was a book from 1979, confusingly titled the Rock On! Annual 1980 which looked back at 1978. Still following me? Good. Rock On! was a short-lived UK magazine launched in June 1978. As with the Look-In Annual that I looked at a few months ago, it is…