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May 5, 2020 at 6:37 am #1522820

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I never really got on with NWOBHM as a name for that particular genre. Maybe it’s because our music press never quite got to grips with it – they tended to focus on the “Britishness” rather than the “heavy metal”. Sure, I can see how grouping Iron Maiden, Motorhead and Judas Priest made sense. But Def Leppard? I just didn’t get it myself. They may as well have included Status Quo…

(plus, growing up a few years behind my elder sister who loved Iron Maiden in the early 80s, it was almost law that I had to hate them, just as I only started following Liverpool FC because she supported Everton).

I can’t hear the Stranglers without being reminded of one of the most forgettable Prime Ministers of all time, Gordon Brown.