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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Eagle Eye/Pioneer
Salesrank: 66509
Released: November 6, 2001 |
| Our Price: $5.97 |
| Used Price: $4.36 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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| Features:
Color Dolby DVD-Video Widescreen NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
Had Judas Priest released just this one album, it would still go down in history. Judas Priest was one of the most influential heavy metal bands of the 70's.
BRITISH STEEL made them a world-famous band.
The welding of BRITISH STEEL is told in this exclusive program in the band's own words, and by their once long-term producer Tom Allom. Featuring archive footage, interviews and rare live performances, plus all of BRITISH STEEL'S finest songs, including "Living After Midnight", "Breaking the Law", "Metal Gods", "The Rage", "United" and "Grinder", this is a compelling, witty and exhilarating look at the making of one of heavy metal's most artful creations, a true Classic Album.
Watch, listen and kneel to the Metal Gods!
Description of Classic Albums - Judas Priest: British Steel:
This installment of the Classic Albums series, in which rock stars talk about the creation of their albums, focuses on the making of British Steel, the 1980 album by Judas Priest, a working-class British, heavy-metal band led by screechy lead singer Rob Halford. As Halford (who has since left the band) and his mates explain what went into the lyrics and recording of the songs that made up the record, the talking heads are intercut with performance footage of a band that helped launch the metal and speed-metal surge of the 1980s and early 1990s. The interviews are not particularly insightful if you're not a fan and are probably redundant if you are; it's fascinating, however, to watch the way the band's studded-leather image evolved over the years. --Marshall Fine
Classic Albums - Judas Priest: British Steel Reviews:
A classic of the genre gets it's just desserts 
2008-01-18 - A good DVD for any Priest fan and a great gift idea for any lapsed fan. This rockumentary discussion of the JP classic British Steel is well warranted although in a way it must of been hard to pick a single JP album to cover. A number could of been included in the series, eg Sad Wings of Destiny or Hell Bent for Leather.
The basic program runs for nearly an hour which is the way this series was intended to be aired. With bonus material included for the DVD release however the running time is more like 110 minutes. The menu is easy to navigate and the production values are understated and tastefully done.
The overall nature of the interviews alternates between light hearted banter - mainly with KK. Downing and Glenn Tipton - and more sedate discussion of various aspects of the albums creation, promotion and legacy. A number of industry types are collared for their thoughts and generally they are worthy inclusions that add something to the story. As per the rest of the classic albums series the main body of the rockumentary is based around discussion of a selection of songs from the album with the DVD getting extra material that collects up a range of miscellaneous aspects relating to the album or it's production.
It should be noted that at the time this was made Rob Halford was not part of the band as JP went through their Ripper Owens years. But Halford is interviewed extensively and no animosity creeps in during the discussions each party has in regards to the contributions of the others. In this regard this particular DVD is one up on the classic albums DVD's pertaining to Deep Purples In Rock album (no Ritchie - what a petty fool) and Queens' Night at the Opera and Jimi Hendrix' Electric Ladyland where major protagonists are deceased.
As someone who is only a borderling JP fan I still found this DVD interesting, illumating and in posession of an almost perfect blend of amusing anecdotes, hard nosed artistic discussion and alternation between footage of interviews with the band and interviews with other related persons.
As I said, a good gift idea and another quality addition to the Classic Albums series of releases.
pretty good
2007-11-28 - for the most part it's good. I think it worth buying if you're a true fan.
great bio of British Steel 
2005-11-14 - All band membors give all their secrets about one of the greatest heavy mnetal albums ever made "British Steel" very interesting stories, and interviews from the band, lots of cool clips, and a few videos and a rare 1991 performance of Grinder, a great buy!
British Steel 
2005-08-19 - OK if you are a die hard Priest fan. All the dialog is a bit boring. It moves a little too slow for me. The music was good though.
Love Judas Priest but a few things...
2004-12-19 - I feel I have to ask this, how many freaken interviews are they going to do about British Steel/Point of Entry with parts of old videos, saddly some from Fule for Life not saying Fule for Life wasnt good, it was great, however if I wanted to see Fule for Life Id freaken Watch Fule For Life but appareantly they assume your to stupid to notice and may miss it so they RE-add many clips from Fule for Life because they assume you dont have Fule for Life...
See a pattern?
What kills Me is they obviously have some vintage material that is extreamly old and in great condition, viewing and sound wise, yet they show you like 10 seconds then ... go back to an interview :)
I wish Judas Priest would stop going over kill with interviews and just release there vintage material, Im talking even back to Sad Wings as about 10 seconds of Tyrant was played... then cuts OFF!?!?!?! but... saved by what else? an interview :)
Priest needs to know their PAYING fans dont want interviews that take longer to hear then the length of creation of Priests existance on this earth, but I do give it 4 stars, because they were kind enough to grace the PAYING viewers with a whopping 10 seconds of a vintage classic :)
*try to*... Enjoy!
