Metal / Death / Black etc
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24.49 €
Denim and Leather : The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal
New Wave of British Heavy Metal - Book - by Michael Hann
(2022)
In
the late 1970s, aggressive, young bands are forming across Britain.
Independent labels are springing up to release their music. But this
isn't the story of punk.
Forget
punk. Punk was a flash in the pan compared to this. This is the story
of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, a musical movement that changed
the world.
From
this movement - given the unwieldy acronym NWOBHM - sprang streams that
would flow through metal's subsequent development. Without NWOBHM there
is no thrash metal, no death metal, no black metal. Without the rise of
Iron Maiden, NWOBHM's standard bearers, leading the charge to South
America and to South Asia, metal's global spread is slower.
Without
the NWOBHM bands - who included Def Leppard, Motorhead, Judas Priest,
Diamond Head and many others - the international uniform of heavy metal -
the 'battle jacket' of a denim jacket with sleeves ripped off, and
covered with patches (usually sewn on by the wearer's mum), worn over a
leather biker jacket - does not exist: 'Denim and leather brought us all
together,' as Saxon put it. No book has ever gathered together all the
principals of British heavy rock's most fertile period: Jimmy Page, Rick
Allen, Michael Schenker, Robert John 'Mutt' Lange, Ritchie Blackmore,
Rick Savage, Phil Collen, David Coverdale, Cronos, Biff Byford, Joe
Elliott, Rob Halford, Ian Gillan, Phil Mogg, Robert Plant, Tony Wilson,
Lars Ulrich, Pete Waterman to name a few. In Denim and Leather, these
stars tell their own stories - their brilliant, funny tales of hubris
and disaster, of ambition and success - and chart how, over a handful of
years from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, a group of unlikely
looking blokes from the provinces wearing spandex trousers changed heavy
music forever.
This is the definitive story about the greatest days of British heavy rock.
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