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List Price: $9.95 | | Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Inc.
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Editorial Review:
I'm on the top as long as the music's loud. Judas Priest frontman, Rob Halford, sang those lyrics at the 1983 US Festival in California. First to popularize wearing leather and metal studs, Judas Priest formed in Birmingham, England, in the 1960s. Many say they are one of the founders of heavy metal with their gritty guitars and screeching vocals. Read about the hardships of the band Judas Priest, it's members, the history, and the world around the band.
Judas Priest: Metal Gods (Rebels of Rock) Reviews:
Engaging for any music fan... 
2009-09-04 - This book is far more than a simple history of Judas Priest (whose name actually was taken from a Dylan song title!). It does of course explore the history of the band, as you'd expect it would, but it does so in a way that provides an excellent context from which the band was born and evolved, exploring the other musical genres and bands that were also prevalent during the time, the reaction to their work (both positive and negative), as well as the backlash they had to endure--parental, political, and cultural.
It's nice to see that kids are reading books like this. Whether you're a fan or not, Judas Priest, leather-clad and straight-ahead loud and raucous, were clearly the pioneers of "heavy metal", a banner that they unabashedly continued to wave throughout their careers, and any youngsters out there that like their music loud, fast, and metallic, well, they really ought to learn about where these newer bands owe their influence.
If your kids are wanting to wear those T-shirts that are now considered "retro" (e.g., AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Aerosmith, Judas Priest, etc.), please do them a big favor and get them this book. Not only will it prod them into actually reading (when handsome teen vampires and scholarly warlocks just won't do the trick), it will also provide them with a grasp of the world from which the music sprung forth.
If you think I'd let this go, you're mad!
2009-08-18 - A great book! We got this for our boy who is 8. I figured since the first concert I ever saw was Priest opening for Kiss in 1979 at the New Haven coliseum, he might appreciate it. I mean, what better way to bond with your kid than with metal. Or punk rock. Or teaching him how much Pink Floyd sucks.
