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Birmingham, 1965,
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the manufacturing heartland of England.
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In one of the city's factories,
a young machinist, Tony Iommi,
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is about to have an industrial accident
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that would change
the course of rock history.
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One day I went in to work and there
was a woman who used to press the metal
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and send it down to me,
and I used to weld it.
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But she never came in so they said,
"Oh, you've gotta do the pressing."
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So I had to get on this machine...
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and of course, the thing
just came down, "Snap!"...
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and took the ends
of my fingers off.
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The injury was a personal
tragedy for Iommi,
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a guitar player on the verge
of turning professional.
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I thought, "That's it.
It's all over. Forget it."
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But Tony Iommi wasn't someone
who gave up easily.
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He was determined to find
a way to keep playing.
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So I ended up making
some tips for myself.
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I got a 'Fairy Liquid' bottle
and melted it down.
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I fit it onto my finger.
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And then I sat there
with sand paper just rubbing it down.
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And it worked.
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By slackening his guitar strings,
it was easier to play
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and made a heavier sound.
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Alongside Ozzy Osborne's
bludgeoning vocal,
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it boosted the sound of their band,
Black Sabbath,
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giving birth to a new age
in rock music,
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Heavy Metal.
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# Finished with my woman cause
she couldn't help me with my mind
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# People think I'm insane because
I am browning all the time
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We had nothing to win,
we had nothing to lose.
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We were just having a lot of fun, drinking
booze, smoking dope and getting chicks.
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It was better than working
in the factory, you know.
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# All day long I think of things
but nothing seems to satisfy
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# Think I'll lose my mind if
I don't find something to pacify
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Sabbath inspired two generations
of Metal giants.
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From leather clad Judas Priest...
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It was heavier, stronger,
louder, more aggressive.
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It had more of an attack.
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...to 'thrash' kings, Metallica.
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We wanted to go out there
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and just play as fast as we could
and as loud as we could.
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This is the story of how 'heavy metal'
grew on to be a global phenomenon.
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And despite being the music
that the critics loved to hate,
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became rock's longer survivor.
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It's the thing you cannot kill,
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no matter how many silver bullets
the critics stick through its head,
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the beast just gets bigger,
laughs, comes back for more,
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and it's considered very exciting
by a great many young people.
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The four members of Black Sabbath,
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had grown up amid the bomb sites
in factories of Aston,
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close to Birmingham center.
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The band formed through an advert
in a local music store, in 1966.
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We were looking for a lead singer
and we saw this note just saying...
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"Ozzy Zig requires gig."
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And I said to Bill: "I know an Ozzy
but it can't be him."
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I thought, I gotta have a good name
to attract attention,
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and I called myself,
"Ozzy Zig requires gig".
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About three days later there was a knock
on the door where I lived,
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my brother got up and answered the door
and he came and said,
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"Some 'thing' is outside asking for you."
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I thought, "Oh no!
It's this lunatic!"
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He used to walk around with a shoe
on a piece of string. A pet shoe.
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I thought he was
a complete nutcase.
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More than any group at the time,
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Sabbath were influenced
by their surroundings.
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All the guys in Sabbath... they were
hard-core working class guys,
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from a hard-core
working class town.
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It's factory music.
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That's what factories sound like.
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You could hear
the drop stamp forges.
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I'd be laying in bed at night and just
kind of like tapping on the head board,
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like...
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You know, putting the extra
rhythm into the stamp.
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# Follow me now and you will not regret
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# leaving the life you led before we met
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# You are the first to have
this love of mine
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# forever with me 'till the end of time
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But there was one last element
that would make the band unique.
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We used to rehearse at a community center
across the road from movie theater.
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And I think it was Tony or Geezer
said one morning,
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"Have you noticed?
It's really weird
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"that people pay money to go
to the movies to get scared.
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"Why don't we start writing
scary music?"
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The idea for a new form
of heavy, scary rock
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would come together
on the title track, 'Black Sabbath',
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the showpiece of their debut album.
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Very moody setting,
with the rain and the spooky cover.
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Just put it on on the headphones
and sit there and stare at the cover,
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and get freaked out.
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When I first played the riff
for Black Sabbath, I really liked it.
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You felt the hairs on your arms
stand up. I felt, this was really good.
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And we knew we had
something different.
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When Tony delivered those chords,
I thought they were absolutely incredible.
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It has so much provocation.
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So you can't help, as a drummer,
just going... just wildly, "Yeah!".
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# What is this that stands before me?
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# Figure in black which points at me
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When we first started playing Black
Sabbath, people would scream and run out.
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Chicks would run out.
People would get scared,
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and we'd go, "Our scary music's
working, ain't it?"
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To me, that whole track embodies
everything about metal.
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It is heavy metal within
the structure of just a few minutes.
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So, with one track, Black Sabbath almost
singlehandedly invented "heavy metal".
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The response of the established rock
press to Black Sabbath's album
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would define their attitude
to heavy metal for the next 30 years.
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The reaction of the music press?
Not very nice.
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They didn't like us.
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Oh God!
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Any reviews that had been
about the album... all negative.
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They hated us...
they did hate us.
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But what nobody,
including the band, realized
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was that there was a vast audience
eager to buy into the new heavier sound.
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Thank you very much.
Thank you.
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We were driving up to this gig in
Manchester and we had the radio on,
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and it was John Peel, who used to do
the top 20 albums every Saturday.
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And went up to 13 and said,
"13: Black Sabbath"... "What?!"
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It was just incredible,
absolutely amazing.
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The next night we played in Nottingham
we found a big lump of hash.
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And we actually got paid
20 quid each.
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It was like the most money
we'd ever had and the...
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the most hash as well.
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It was just like the perfect weekend.
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The guitar riff was central to the new
heavy metal sound,
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and Black Sabbath were joined
by Deep Purple
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in laying down the blueprint.
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The riff itself is crucial to
what we know as "heavy metal".
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It almost drives it.
It's the engine, as it were.
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The riff represents energy,
it represents aggression.
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It represents force, and it gets
you into a "metal" song.
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# Black night is not right,
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# I don't feel so bright,
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# I don't care to sit tight.
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# Maybe I'll find
on the way down the line
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# That I'm free, free to be me.
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# Black night is a long way from home.
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Guitars were important because
it's like having a Jag.
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Guitars were very potent instruments.
Highly sexual.
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Richard Blackmore,
amazing technician.
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A real flashbugger...
great showman.
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We were writing songs really
based on our live experience.
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And playing live was wild.
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Paice was a furious drummer.
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And we had John Lord y Ritchie Blackmore
who were just unbelievable players.
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And intent on kind of
outdoing each other.
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And so the music really took shape
from the live experience.
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It was heavy, and it was challenging.
It wasn't folk music.
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After the success of their hit
record 'Black Night'
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Deep Purple traveled to Montreux,
Switzerland,
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to record their next
album at a casino
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run by promoter Claude Nobs.
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The night before recording began,
disaster struck.
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The band were watching Frank Zappa
perform at the casino
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when to their horror,
a fan in the audience
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fired a flaregun into the ceiling.
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Within minutes the place was on fire
and we were all evacuated.
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Hundreds of feet high flames and smoke,
when this wonderful wooden building...
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went up like a tinderbox.
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By the following morning
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the whole casino had been destroyed.
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The wind blew the smoke
across lake Geneva.
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It was lying there like a carpet.
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And Roger wrote "Smoke on the water"
just as a phrase.
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Instead of heading home,
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Deep Purple made the best
of a bad situation
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and decided to start recording
tracks in their hotel.
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Gentlemen, here we go.
Take #5.
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We barricaded ourselves
into the Grand Hotel,
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which we were using
as a recording studio.
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With drums on the landing,
on the hallway.
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Hamond in one bedroom and the base
in another. Ritchie out in the hallway.
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I smashed a microphone.
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Then the engineer said,
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"We've got a day to go and you're still
7 minutes short of an album."
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Here we go then.
This is the one.
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Ritchie came up with the riff.
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And that kind of strange
semitone lift...
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you know, no one did that before.
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Rog said, why don't we just
do a biographical account
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of the making the record?
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And so, we did.
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Hence, 'We all came out to Montreux
on the Lake Geneva shoreline
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'To make records with a mobile.
- We didn't have much time.'
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So there it is, Funky Claude,
Frank Zappa and The Mothers.
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We stuck it on the album
to make up the numbers.
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# We all came out to Montreux
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# on the Lake Geneva shoreline
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# To make records with a mobile.
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# We didn't have much time.'
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# Frank Zappa and The Mothers
were at the best place around
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# But some stupid with a flare gun
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# burned the place to the ground
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# Smoke on the water
and fire in the sky
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# Smoke on the water
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I think a couple of DJs started playing
Smoke on the Water from the live version,
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and it caught on,
that's all I can say.
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It's like public property now.
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We've become the backing group for
the audience when they sing that song.
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It's incredible.
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When it was released as a single,
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'Smoke on the Water' sold over
a million copies in the US alone.
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And its guitar riff became
one of the most memorable of all time.
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'Heavy Metal' was now
so big in America
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that Black Sabbath took up
residence there.
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The group began recording
out in Los Angeles
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where drugs and groupies
were plentiful.
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And where serious work
was the last thing on their minds.
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We were doing everything there...
women, drugs.
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Bringing stuff*
actually flown in on private planes.
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Sealed bags of cocaine.
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We went mad...
absolutely mad.
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Black Sabbath's music reflected
their frazzled state.
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Songs like 'Snowblind' left no doubt
as to their inspiration.
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# What you get and what you see
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# Things that don't come easily
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# Feeling happy in my vein
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# Icicles are in my brain
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# Cocaine
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Over the next few years,
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the band got more and more
out of control.
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There came a moment, inevitably,
where the well had run dry.
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The whole frenzied lifestyle had
just ground to a drug induced halt.
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To top it all, I couldn't
think of anything.
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I had a writers' block.
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And I certainly I... just couldn't
come up with anything I liked.
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I really thought the band
was about to split.
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I just thought, we've done everything
musically that we can do,
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gone as far as we can go,
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and that's about it.
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In 1973, Sabbath decided to give
recording one more shot,
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and ended up at the remote
Clearwell Castle
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in the Forest of Dean.
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Got to this castle... it was so
bloody haunted. It was unbelievable.
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We used to rehearse in
the dungeons of the castle.
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And this black shape, just like
walked past the entrance...
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"What the hell was that?"
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So they went out and saw this person
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walk down to the end of the corridor
and go into this room.
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And they went in
and the room was completely empty.
240
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And there was no other way out.
241
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The spooky castle dungeons
242
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proved to be just the stimulus
the band needed.
243
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It sort of sparked some imagination.
244
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And Tony picked his guitar
and came out with a riff for...
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'Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath'.
246
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And I just went, "Yes!!"
247
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Stuff just came out just
like that then.
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'Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath' was the first
song, and then they just came out.
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# You've seen life through
distorted eyes
250
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# You know you had to learn
251
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# The execution of your mind
252
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# You really had to turn
253
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It was the most sophisticated
album they'd ever made.
254
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There were some tremendously
high points like the title track itself.
255
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And I think, technically,
it was their absolute zenith.
256
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While Sabbath were enjoying
unprecedented success,
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in their hometown Birmingham,
258
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another group had watched patiently
from the sidelines.
259
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# There I was completely wasting,
out of work and down
260
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# all inside it's so frustrating
as I drift from town to town
261
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It was exciting for us to see
a band like Sabbath get established
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and become famous.
263
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That was an inspiration,
I think, for us...
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to keep going, you know.
265
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# Breaking the law, breaking the law
266
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# Breaking the law, breaking the law
267
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# Breaking the law, breaking the law
268
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# Breaking the law, breaking the law
269
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By the mid 1970s Judas Priest would
take the music that Sabbath pioneered
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into new territory,
271
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and push them into a league
of their own.
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Me personally, talking as a musician,
I needed to experiment more.
273
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When we really got together
and our writing blossomed,
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that was the exciting thing.
We were moving on.
275
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There were no boundaries really,
in our mind.
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I don't want to be in a safe band.
I don't wanna play safe music.
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I wanna be in a band
that is energizing.
278
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# When the day is over,
279
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# I like to ease my mind
280
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Priest became faster,
heavier and louder.
281
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# With the beat of a heavy kind
282
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Priest introduced twin guitar,
twin lead guitar, into 'heavy metal'.
283
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And then they had
the soaring voice of Rob Halford,
284
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which was a banshee wail,
285
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but committed with
such range and depth,
286
00:20:01,986 --> 00:20:03,376
no one else could match it.
287
00:20:03,981 --> 00:20:08,759
# And I can't stop talking
'bout my rock forever
288
00:20:13,610 --> 00:20:17,601
We never had a real set plan of
we're gonna be this kind of band.
289
00:20:17,701 --> 00:20:20,374
All we knew was we were gonna
be a heavy metal band.
290
00:20:20,474 --> 00:20:23,035
With everything that you know
and love about metal.
291
00:20:25,469 --> 00:20:27,924
# So when you get those blue days,
292
00:20:28,452 --> 00:20:29,752
# Here's just what to do
293
00:20:29,852 --> 00:20:32,301
As Judas Priest were
slowly getting established,
294
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a new musical force was
closing in on heavy metal.
295
00:20:36,365 --> 00:20:40,357
# Oh we're so pretty
oh so pretty vacant
296
00:20:40,557 --> 00:20:44,401
From 1976, punk dominated
the British music scene,
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with bands like the Sex Pistols
298
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demanding a cull
of long-haired rock bands.
299
00:20:50,151 --> 00:20:53,028
# And we don't care
300
00:20:53,941 --> 00:20:55,745
The punk scene got our backs up
301
00:20:55,845 --> 00:20:57,806
and we were really irritated
and pissed of by it,
302
00:20:57,906 --> 00:20:59,838
because we thought it was
a load of bollocks most of it.
303
00:20:59,938 --> 00:21:03,607
We were really angry that
it was getting so much attention.
304
00:21:05,260 --> 00:21:07,141
We knew internally
it wasn't gonna last,
305
00:21:07,241 --> 00:21:09,560
so we just had to ride it out.
306
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We have always been proud
of the term 'heavy metal'.
307
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We've never seen anything
wrong with it.
308
00:21:16,421 --> 00:21:20,642
And when other bands disowned the tag,
because it wasn't fashionable
309
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we've flown the flag
for 'heavy metal'.
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Giving a two finger salute to punk,
311
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Judas Priest changed their image
312
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and with it the way
heavy metal would progress.
313
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What the band's army of
followers didn't realize
314
00:21:42,159 --> 00:21:45,122
was that the look originated
from singer Rob Halford's
315
00:21:45,222 --> 00:21:47,948
clandestine visits to fetish shops.
316
00:21:48,048 --> 00:21:51,916
Somebody told me,
"Go to Mr. S in Soho.
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"They've got all this stuff down there."
318
00:21:54,350 --> 00:21:57,290
So when we were in London doing
a show I would stop by there
319
00:21:57,390 --> 00:22:00,644
and just went mad and bought
those handcuffs, and that cockring,
320
00:22:00,744 --> 00:22:03,324
and this butt whip and this ***.
321
00:22:03,424 --> 00:22:05,906
Just loaded it up
and that's how it started.
322
00:22:10,495 --> 00:22:14,028
On stage, Priest started wearing
black leather and studs.
323
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A uniform later adopted by
heavy metal fans worldwide.
324
00:22:24,304 --> 00:22:26,659
# Seek him here,
seek him on the highway
325
00:22:26,759 --> 00:22:28,538
# Never knowing when he'll appear
326
00:22:28,638 --> 00:22:31,020
# All await, engine's ticking over
327
00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:32,782
# Hear the roar as they sense the fear
328
00:22:32,882 --> 00:22:34,900
Everybody now know
that Robbie's gay,
329
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,723
but at the time, we were blissfully
unaware of all that.
330
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We said, "Look at those
spiky things. That's cool."
331
00:22:42,239 --> 00:22:44,448
# Hell bent, hell bent for leather
332
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# Hell bent, hell bent for leather
333
00:22:51,866 --> 00:22:55,261
Who else but Rob Halford
could take that look
334
00:22:55,361 --> 00:22:58,580
and make it absolutely
part of the image
335
00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:03,953
of one of the most macho,
male-oriented heavy metal groups ever?
336
00:23:03,988 --> 00:23:06,065
# Hell bent, hell bent for leather
337
00:23:06,957 --> 00:23:09,720
It just came about that
the way forward
338
00:23:09,820 --> 00:23:12,190
was undoubtedly the leather
and studs, you know.
339
00:23:12,290 --> 00:23:17,611
Just suddenly dawned on us
that the heavy metal army needs to...
340
00:23:17,711 --> 00:23:22,194
to don the uniform
and go marching on.
341
00:23:23,808 --> 00:23:28,046
Priest actually focused
the whole of metal into genre.
342
00:23:28,146 --> 00:23:30,389
They were the first band
to embrace the term.
343
00:23:30,489 --> 00:23:32,955
'Heavy Metal', that had a ring to it.
344
00:23:33,055 --> 00:23:34,707
That had a sense of tribal belonging.
345
00:23:34,807 --> 00:23:37,385
That gave a sense of exactly
what you were gonna listen to.
346
00:23:39,486 --> 00:23:43,163
The band's image and music
finally came together in 1980,
347
00:23:43,263 --> 00:23:46,965
when they moved into John Lennon's
old house at Tittenhurst Park,
348
00:23:47,065 --> 00:23:50,812
to record their classic
metal album, 'British Steel'.
349
00:23:55,511 --> 00:23:56,970
I think all of us in Priest,
350
00:23:57,070 --> 00:23:59,928
will forever cite the 'British Steel'
album for us
351
00:24:00,028 --> 00:24:03,474
as the... a pivotal moment
for the band.
352
00:24:03,674 --> 00:24:05,675
We suddenly came out with these songs.
353
00:24:06,547 --> 00:24:12,922
# Living after midnight,
rockin' to the dawn
354
00:24:13,739 --> 00:24:20,236
# Lovin' 'til the morning,
then I'm gone, I'm gone
355
00:24:20,863 --> 00:24:27,400
# I took the city 'bout one A.M,
loaded, loaded
356
00:24:27,951 --> 00:24:34,282
# I'm all geared up to score again,
loaded, loaded
357
00:24:35,250 --> 00:24:38,503
# I come alive in the neon light
358
00:24:39,078 --> 00:24:42,388
# That's when I make my moves right
359
00:24:42,488 --> 00:24:44,890
# Living after midnight...
360
00:24:44,990 --> 00:24:46,302
It was quite inspirational, really,
361
00:24:46,337 --> 00:24:48,179
because we were recording
a lot of guitars
362
00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:50,745
in the room where
John Lennon did 'Imagine'.
363
00:24:50,845 --> 00:24:54,330
And John and Yoko's bedroom
was directly above.
364
00:24:54,630 --> 00:24:56,645
We woke Rob up one night.
We were playing...
365
00:24:56,745 --> 00:24:59,361
'Living after midnight',
I think he was in the bedroom above.
366
00:24:59,656 --> 00:25:02,052
I'm trying to get to sleep
and I hear this riffing...
367
00:25:02,152 --> 00:25:05,975
"Oh, God! It's Glen." And I'm laying
there and as he was riffing,
368
00:25:06,912 --> 00:25:09,253
I started, "Oh, God!
It's after midnight, you know."
369
00:25:09,353 --> 00:25:10,584
And then that's it.
370
00:25:13,781 --> 00:25:17,494
# I'm aiming for ya
371
00:25:21,010 --> 00:25:24,521
# I'm gonna floor ya
372
00:25:25,019 --> 00:25:28,804
That simple idea became a song
that now we have to play
373
00:25:28,904 --> 00:25:31,880
wherever we go around
the world playing to,
374
00:25:31,980 --> 00:25:35,735
hundreds of thousands of fans,
they want to hear that song.
375
00:25:35,835 --> 00:25:39,030
# The joint starts flying when I begin
376
00:25:39,065 --> 00:25:41,672
# Living after midnight...
377
00:25:41,756 --> 00:25:44,844
Judas Priest were rewarded
for embracing heavy metal
378
00:25:44,944 --> 00:25:46,859
when it seemed most out of fashion.
379
00:25:46,959 --> 00:25:49,698
Their album 'British Steel'
was an instant hit,
380
00:25:49,798 --> 00:25:53,347
and unified the heavy metal scene
around their sound and look,
381
00:25:53,447 --> 00:25:57,108
creating a generation
of 'air guitar' players.
382
00:25:59,634 --> 00:26:02,397
But not everyone fared
as well as Judas Priest,
383
00:26:02,497 --> 00:26:04,716
the old guard struggled
to keep up,
384
00:26:04,816 --> 00:26:07,732
and the era produced
its fair share of casualties.
385
00:26:07,832 --> 00:26:10,555
Not least, one Ozzy Osborne.
386
00:26:12,740 --> 00:26:14,631
Ozzy didn't wanna sing anything.
387
00:26:14,731 --> 00:26:15,796
He was getting out of it.
388
00:26:15,896 --> 00:26:18,933
We all were, to be honest,
but he was worse than us.
389
00:26:19,961 --> 00:26:21,642
And we had to say to Ozzy,
390
00:26:21,742 --> 00:26:24,680
"We gotta do something about it,
otherwise we're gonna break up."
391
00:26:25,730 --> 00:26:29,599
In 1978, Ozzy was fired
from Black Sabbath.
392
00:26:31,649 --> 00:26:34,191
Ozzy leaving was heartbreaking.
393
00:26:34,199 --> 00:26:36,699
I really missed my pal.
394
00:26:36,742 --> 00:26:38,253
I missed all the humour.
395
00:26:39,213 --> 00:26:42,281
Everybody was really upset and...
396
00:26:42,381 --> 00:26:44,490
crying and everything
when it happened.
397
00:26:44,590 --> 00:26:47,340
Because none of us
wanted it to happen.
398
00:26:48,394 --> 00:26:51,101
Ozzy locked himself away
in a hotel room
399
00:26:51,201 --> 00:26:54,503
with a vast supply
of drink and drugs.
400
00:26:55,676 --> 00:26:58,506
Out of it in every sense.
401
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,599
While the old guard imploded,
402
00:27:07,699 --> 00:27:10,244
by 1980 there was
a grassroots explosion
403
00:27:10,344 --> 00:27:12,576
of a more hard nosed
type of heavy metal
404
00:27:12,676 --> 00:27:15,936
for an army of fans
eager for a new sound.
405
00:27:18,448 --> 00:27:20,800
It was kind of pretty obvious
that something was happening there
406
00:27:20,900 --> 00:27:23,002
that wasn't part of the traditional
407
00:27:23,102 --> 00:27:26,673
*** in the wall rock scene that
we were familiar with from the early 70s.
408
00:27:28,454 --> 00:27:31,869
It kind of prompted a lot of bands
to come out of the woodwork.
409
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,534
That coined the phrase,
unwittingly maybe,
410
00:27:34,634 --> 00:27:36,115
'the new wave of British heavy metal'.
411
00:27:36,215 --> 00:27:38,052
And it kind of stuck.
412
00:27:38,639 --> 00:27:40,701
'The new wave of British
heavy metal'
413
00:27:40,801 --> 00:27:43,005
was led by Iron Maiden.
414
00:27:44,024 --> 00:27:48,641
# Won't you come into my room,
I wanna show you all my wares.
415
00:27:48,741 --> 00:27:53,056
# I just want to see your blood,
I just want to stand and stare.
416
00:27:53,156 --> 00:27:57,572
# See the blood begin to flow
as it falls upon the floor.
417
00:27:57,672 --> 00:28:02,297
# Iron Maiden can't be faught,
Iron Maiden can't be sought.
418
00:28:03,009 --> 00:28:07,722
Founded by bassist Steve Harris,
Maiden harnessed some of punk's energy
419
00:28:07,822 --> 00:28:09,698
along with the 'do it yourself' attitude
420
00:28:09,798 --> 00:28:12,878
that would see the band putting out
their own first record.
421
00:28:14,601 --> 00:28:16,583
To try and get work in the early days
422
00:28:16,683 --> 00:28:18,479
we made a 'demo' tape
and we thought,
423
00:28:18,514 --> 00:28:23,655
"Oh, we really ought to make
an actual single or whatever. "
424
00:28:23,755 --> 00:28:25,433
So we put the tracks on
in a single,
425
00:28:25,533 --> 00:28:27,523
and we sold those in a really
short space of time
426
00:28:27,623 --> 00:28:29,000
just at small gigs
we were doing.
427
00:28:29,154 --> 00:28:31,637
It really did start the thing growing,
428
00:28:31,737 --> 00:28:35,122
and real grassroots underground
thing going on.
429
00:28:35,419 --> 00:28:40,243
# Just sixteen, a pickup truck,
out of money, out of luck.
430
00:28:40,343 --> 00:28:42,530
Their home made demo
got the band noticed
431
00:28:42,630 --> 00:28:45,192
and a five album deal
with EMI.
432
00:28:46,812 --> 00:28:48,630
# I'm running free yeah...
433
00:28:48,730 --> 00:28:51,381
By 1981, Iron Maiden
were the figureheads
434
00:28:51,481 --> 00:28:53,573
of the new wave
of British heavy metal,
435
00:28:53,673 --> 00:28:55,922
but for the lead singer Paul Di'Anno,
436
00:28:56,022 --> 00:28:59,565
the pressure of
the unforeseen success was too much.
437
00:28:59,802 --> 00:29:02,625
We knew, long term, that Paul
wasn't gonna be able to do it
438
00:29:02,725 --> 00:29:03,987
because just couldn't keep up with it.
439
00:29:04,022 --> 00:29:07,622
He didn't like being on tour
and it was a problem with his voice...
440
00:29:07,722 --> 00:29:09,182
giving out now and
again as well and...
441
00:29:09,282 --> 00:29:10,756
We just knew that
his heart wasn't into it.
442
00:29:10,856 --> 00:29:13,491
So we thought, if we don't change
it's gonna take us under.
443
00:29:14,258 --> 00:29:17,729
The group needed a frontman
who was willing to take on the world.
444
00:29:19,493 --> 00:29:23,365
They found him in the flamboyant
form of Bruce Dickinson.
445
00:29:27,581 --> 00:29:33,041
Being young and full
of piss and vinegar, I said...
446
00:29:34,001 --> 00:29:37,227
"Well, let's not talk bollocks about this,
I've obviously got the job."
447
00:29:38,817 --> 00:29:41,988
I said, "So you have to decide whether
or not you can cope
448
00:29:42,088 --> 00:29:44,273
"with a pain in the ass like me
being in the band."
449
00:29:44,373 --> 00:29:47,071
"'Cause I'm not
gonna be like the other guy."
450
00:29:48,535 --> 00:29:52,296
# White man came across the sea
451
00:29:52,337 --> 00:29:56,121
# He brought us pain and misery
452
00:29:56,321 --> 00:30:00,108
# He killed our tribes,
he killed our creed
453
00:30:00,208 --> 00:30:03,956
# He took our game for his own need
454
00:30:04,056 --> 00:30:06,548
Bruce had everything that
Paul Di'Anno didn't have,
455
00:30:06,648 --> 00:30:09,389
he had rage, he had depth,
he could sing,
456
00:30:09,489 --> 00:30:12,350
and he had a charisma
that wasn't born off the streets,
457
00:30:12,450 --> 00:30:14,918
it was actually born
of being of stage craft.
458
00:30:15,018 --> 00:30:19,143
So Dickinson came in and lifted
Maiden to a new level.
459
00:30:23,235 --> 00:30:25,973
# Riding through dustclouds
and barren wastes
460
00:30:26,073 --> 00:30:27,987
# Galloping hard on the plains
461
00:30:28,087 --> 00:30:31,224
Dickinson brought with him
a whiff of old fashioned showmanship
462
00:30:31,324 --> 00:30:33,129
and a keen melodic sense.
463
00:30:36,472 --> 00:30:38,372
It's all to do with
the rising sixth.
464
00:30:38,472 --> 00:30:41,628
The rising sixth is a very popular
device in popular music.
465
00:30:41,728 --> 00:30:45,332
It's actually one of the reasons
why "My Way" is so successful.
466
00:30:45,432 --> 00:30:46,551
Because it has several of them...
467
00:30:46,651 --> 00:30:49,567
"And now, the end is near."
468
00:30:49,667 --> 00:30:51,300
And 'Run to the Hills'
has got lots of it.
469
00:30:51,435 --> 00:30:53,319
"Run to the hills..."
470
00:30:55,175 --> 00:30:58,846
You put some harmonies on that
and it becomes this huge, big like...
471
00:30:59,809 --> 00:31:03,237
# Run to the hills
472
00:31:05,128 --> 00:31:09,155
# Run for your lives
473
00:31:09,558 --> 00:31:11,989
What make the rest of the song
so interesting is
474
00:31:12,089 --> 00:31:17,478
it's got all this quite aggressive,
fast uptempo part.
475
00:31:18,907 --> 00:31:22,273
But with a really strong melody
imposed over all of it.
476
00:31:22,334 --> 00:31:24,368
And there was nothing like it.
477
00:31:29,740 --> 00:31:31,894
All the things that Maiden
aspired to,
478
00:31:31,994 --> 00:31:34,658
all came together
in that one particular song
479
00:31:34,758 --> 00:31:36,126
at the right particular time.
480
00:31:36,226 --> 00:31:39,467
# Run to the hills
481
00:31:41,397 --> 00:31:46,367
# Run for your lives
482
00:31:55,903 --> 00:31:59,574
On the back of 'Run to the Hills',
on the album 'Number of the Beast',
483
00:31:59,674 --> 00:32:02,085
Iron Maiden became
a global phenomenon.
484
00:32:03,702 --> 00:32:07,894
This was the dawn of metal
on a grand and epic scale.
485
00:32:11,195 --> 00:32:12,962
We wanted to make it an event,
basically.
486
00:32:13,062 --> 00:32:15,060
*** with the music,
of course.
487
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,608
But a show as well that people go
and say, "Wow! Have you seen him?"
488
00:32:18,708 --> 00:32:21,961
In a word, we were trying
to create something theatrical.
489
00:32:22,061 --> 00:32:26,298
# 6-6-6 the one for you and me
490
00:32:26,642 --> 00:32:29,413
Metal now took one of
its biggest turns yet.
491
00:32:29,513 --> 00:32:32,299
Far away from the factory towns
of Britain,
492
00:32:32,399 --> 00:32:33,908
on the West Coast of America,
493
00:32:34,008 --> 00:32:36,738
a new scene brazenly
announced itself.
494
00:32:42,672 --> 00:32:46,869
'Glam Metal' had its origins in the glitz
and glamour of the sweaty clubs
495
00:32:46,904 --> 00:32:48,799
of Hollywood Sunset Strip.
496
00:32:50,895 --> 00:32:54,115
You know, the Strip was the place to be
back in those days.
497
00:32:54,215 --> 00:32:57,820
Especially the weekends it was packed
with people with...
498
00:32:58,020 --> 00:33:02,616
big hair and big heels
and just glammed out.
499
00:33:04,553 --> 00:33:07,639
The whole 'glam metal' thing
just started out of nowhere.
500
00:33:07,674 --> 00:33:08,820
It was quite bizarre.
501
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,109
I just happened to go past
a club and see a whole bunch of kids,
502
00:33:12,209 --> 00:33:16,253
about 15 or 16, standing outside.
All wearing high heels,
503
00:33:16,353 --> 00:33:18,115
and they had
this kind of wild hairdos,
504
00:33:18,215 --> 00:33:19,913
looking like candy floss
on their head.
505
00:33:20,113 --> 00:33:22,685
So I just stood in the line like
everybody else and went in.
506
00:33:22,785 --> 00:33:25,276
And just saw a band,
never heard of them before,
507
00:33:25,311 --> 00:33:27,162
they were called Motley Crew.
508
00:33:29,020 --> 00:33:33,085
They sounded absolutely dreadful
but they looked great, and I thought,
509
00:33:33,185 --> 00:33:35,558
I have just seen the future
of rock 'n roll and...
510
00:33:35,758 --> 00:33:37,113
Damn it! I was right.
511
00:33:41,801 --> 00:33:44,187
# Don't you know, know, know
512
00:33:44,287 --> 00:33:46,772
# It's a violation
513
00:33:48,537 --> 00:33:50,643
# I still hear you saying
514
00:33:51,613 --> 00:33:54,307
# Such a perfect, perfect night
515
00:33:56,470 --> 00:34:00,339
We were wearing women stilettos
and our hair was hairsprayed up.
516
00:34:00,439 --> 00:34:04,848
Our whole thing was about living
large and girls and cars
517
00:34:04,948 --> 00:34:07,758
and motorcycles and fun.
518
00:34:07,858 --> 00:34:09,357
# Take me to the top
519
00:34:10,817 --> 00:34:13,794
We were there for people
to forget their problems
520
00:34:13,894 --> 00:34:15,545
and enjoy the entertainment.
521
00:34:18,557 --> 00:34:21,221
When MTV was launched, in 1981,
522
00:34:21,321 --> 00:34:24,328
the network soon found
that videos of Motley Crew
523
00:34:24,428 --> 00:34:28,104
with their cartoon image,
were ideal for entertaining viewers.
524
00:34:29,767 --> 00:34:31,341
# Now listen up
525
00:34:33,226 --> 00:34:35,075
# She's razor sharp
526
00:34:36,518 --> 00:34:39,046
# If she don't get her way
527
00:34:39,991 --> 00:34:42,349
# She'll slice you apart
528
00:34:42,663 --> 00:34:46,183
The first video that MTV played
was 'Looks that Kill'.
529
00:34:46,283 --> 00:34:51,369
And it was the old goofy production
with girls and flames and all this stuff.
530
00:34:51,469 --> 00:34:53,519
That's when it really took off.
531
00:35:01,236 --> 00:35:05,421
So Motley Crew had gone in a flash,
in one year, from being
532
00:35:05,521 --> 00:35:10,076
a little indy band that nobody knew
about to being a major label act.
533
00:35:11,008 --> 00:35:13,659
# She's got looks that kill
534
00:35:13,694 --> 00:35:14,918
# Now she's bulletproof
535
00:35:15,018 --> 00:35:18,404
They were iconic... They sort
of defined that look.
536
00:35:18,504 --> 00:35:19,930
That's what heavy metal became.
537
00:35:20,030 --> 00:35:23,208
It became the entertainers,
the pretty boys, selling records
538
00:35:23,308 --> 00:35:26,223
attracting girls...
sex, drugs and rock 'n roll thing.
539
00:35:26,323 --> 00:35:30,296
And that went on to define
metal for the next five or six years.
540
00:35:32,203 --> 00:35:34,202
The band who invented 'hair metal'
541
00:35:34,302 --> 00:35:36,392
became as well known
for their off stage antics
542
00:35:36,492 --> 00:35:38,068
as they were for their music.
543
00:35:38,863 --> 00:35:42,657
A fact not lost for one of
heavy metal's founding fathers,
544
00:35:42,757 --> 00:35:47,111
who was busy resurrecting his career
and on tour with Motley Crew.
545
00:35:49,512 --> 00:35:52,942
I think that was the beginning
of our infamy and debauchery.
546
00:35:53,210 --> 00:35:56,218
Because some of the stories that came
out of that time were pretty crazy
547
00:35:56,253 --> 00:35:59,641
because we were all
out of our minds.
548
00:36:00,318 --> 00:36:02,864
He rode on our bus
and he would just...
549
00:36:02,964 --> 00:36:05,743
drink and do drugs,
and just get crazy.
550
00:36:08,266 --> 00:36:11,101
Motley Crew say something
about the fact
551
00:36:11,102 --> 00:36:14,290
that I snorted
a line of ants one time.
552
00:36:14,390 --> 00:36:19,743
And I have got absolutely
no recollection of doing that.
553
00:36:21,711 --> 00:36:24,766
It was like kind of trying
to outdo each other.
554
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:30,184
And Nicky snorted some ants,
so Ozzy snorted these ants,
555
00:36:30,219 --> 00:36:34,622
but Ozzy peed on himself
and then licked up the pee.
556
00:36:34,822 --> 00:36:36,499
So he won.
557
00:36:37,003 --> 00:36:39,723
# All aboard!
558
00:36:42,530 --> 00:36:45,088
Despite all of his recreational pursuits
559
00:36:45,188 --> 00:36:49,621
Ozzy Osborne made the most unexpected
comeback in rock history.
560
00:36:54,546 --> 00:36:57,303
Ozzy was resuscitated
by Sharon Arden.
561
00:36:57,503 --> 00:37:01,085
Sharon was the daughter of
Black Sabbath's notorious manager,
562
00:37:01,185 --> 00:37:02,285
Don Arden.
563
00:37:05,573 --> 00:37:09,649
Sharon needed an entree to
the serious aspect of the music business.
564
00:37:09,749 --> 00:37:11,701
She was tired of working
for her father.
565
00:37:11,736 --> 00:37:13,681
She wanted to do
her own thing.
566
00:37:13,881 --> 00:37:16,813
Ozzy didn't have a clue
of what was going on,
567
00:37:16,913 --> 00:37:18,580
and needed someone to tell him.
568
00:37:20,326 --> 00:37:22,907
The stroke of luck they had was
569
00:37:23,107 --> 00:37:27,294
Sharon discovered a 22 year-old guitarist
by the name of Randy Rhoads
570
00:37:27,394 --> 00:37:32,384
who happened to be the new
greatest guitarist in the world.
571
00:37:38,306 --> 00:37:39,861
She teemed them up together
572
00:37:39,961 --> 00:37:45,962
and Ozzy's solo career
took of with a bang.
573
00:37:48,241 --> 00:37:53,380
# Crazy, but that's how it goes
574
00:37:55,526 --> 00:38:01,066
# Millions of people living as foes
575
00:38:02,792 --> 00:38:07,556
# Maybe, it's not too late
576
00:38:09,630 --> 00:38:11,889
# To learn how to love
577
00:38:12,438 --> 00:38:15,139
# And forget how to hate
578
00:38:16,461 --> 00:38:19,183
I had the wonderful experience
of meeting Randy Rhoads
579
00:38:19,283 --> 00:38:20,836
who was a music teacher.
580
00:38:21,036 --> 00:38:24,116
And he was very patient
with me.
581
00:38:24,389 --> 00:38:29,036
# I'm going off the rails
on a crazy train
582
00:38:31,141 --> 00:38:34,391
Sabbath would go, here's some music.
Put some vocals on that.
583
00:38:34,491 --> 00:38:38,093
Whereas Randy would go to me,
"Maybe we could try this key."
584
00:38:38,193 --> 00:38:41,004
I had never experienced that before.
585
00:38:41,713 --> 00:38:44,441
Randy Rhoads was an amazing
guitar player.
586
00:38:44,541 --> 00:38:47,523
Great looking guy,
fantastic on stage.
587
00:38:47,623 --> 00:38:51,921
And there's no question that those
records that he made with Ozzy
588
00:38:52,021 --> 00:38:56,310
are probably the best that
Ozzy has made as a solo artist.
589
00:38:56,410 --> 00:39:03,747
# Mr. Crowley, what went on
in your head
590
00:39:05,914 --> 00:39:13,814
# Mr. Crowley,
did you talk to the dead
591
00:39:15,367 --> 00:39:18,078
But sadly, Ozzy's
partnership with Randy Rhoads
592
00:39:18,178 --> 00:39:19,874
was brought to an abrupt end.
593
00:39:23,340 --> 00:39:25,974
Randy and two members
of Ozzy's road crew
594
00:39:26,074 --> 00:39:29,830
were killed when a joy ride
in a private plane went badly wrong.
595
00:39:31,178 --> 00:39:36,236
The effect his death had on Ozzy
and Sharon was devastating.
596
00:39:36,336 --> 00:39:38,038
For a start they saw it happen.
597
00:39:38,238 --> 00:39:40,314
They were standing by the side
of the tour bus
598
00:39:40,414 --> 00:39:43,703
when they actually saw the plane
go over their heads
599
00:39:43,803 --> 00:39:45,360
and into the ground.
600
00:39:47,060 --> 00:39:49,336
As far as Ozzy was concerned
it was the end of his career.
601
00:39:49,436 --> 00:39:51,956
Absolutely. That was it.
Finito.
602
00:39:55,252 --> 00:39:58,357
Sharon, being made of
much, much tougher stuff,
603
00:39:58,457 --> 00:40:00,221
she dragged him back
from the abyss.
604
00:40:01,213 --> 00:40:03,732
"You will go back out
on the fucking road."
605
00:40:03,832 --> 00:40:05,972
Literally pushing him out
on stage.
606
00:40:07,524 --> 00:40:09,660
Sharon said to me,
"Here's a cordless mike,
607
00:40:09,695 --> 00:40:11,006
"there's the stage.
Work the stage."
608
00:40:11,106 --> 00:40:12,493
And I'm going...
609
00:40:13,596 --> 00:40:16,798
Because my mike stand was my little
place where I could hold on to.
610
00:40:16,998 --> 00:40:19,646
Now I've got a cordless mike,
she boots me off the backside
611
00:40:19,746 --> 00:40:22,216
and says, "Work the stage.
Work that audience."
612
00:40:22,416 --> 00:40:24,957
And it was like the biggest
shock of my life.
613
00:40:25,183 --> 00:40:27,119
And then I started
to have fun with it.
614
00:40:28,884 --> 00:40:32,798
Throughout the 80s, Ozzy's
shows attracted huge crowds,
615
00:40:32,898 --> 00:40:37,267
drawn to the unaffected charisma
of heavy metal's greatest survivor.
616
00:40:42,631 --> 00:40:46,578
On stage, Ozzy was the guy
who made you feel good to be alive.
617
00:40:48,541 --> 00:40:50,615
He doesn't have much of an act.
618
00:40:50,715 --> 00:40:52,310
And he's the first guy
to admit it.
619
00:40:52,345 --> 00:40:56,022
He jumps up and down,
he smiles, he gives you the 'peace' sign.
620
00:40:56,122 --> 00:40:58,387
He yells, "Come on, everybody!"
621
00:41:01,718 --> 00:41:06,186
But it's so basic,
and it's so obviously him,
622
00:41:06,286 --> 00:41:07,891
it's an honest act.
623
00:41:09,437 --> 00:41:11,685
But old habits didn't die easily.
624
00:41:11,885 --> 00:41:16,191
Ozzy's success pushed him yet further
into excessive use of drink and drugs.
625
00:41:18,276 --> 00:41:21,281
A lot of it is just a drunk
and stunk haze.
626
00:41:21,381 --> 00:41:24,681
I mean I was...
I thought I was king of the world.
627
00:41:24,972 --> 00:41:27,840
And I was doing so much coke
and so much booze...
628
00:41:27,940 --> 00:41:30,163
One glass leads to two,
two leads to four...
629
00:41:30,164 --> 00:41:31,942
in the end I'd do something stupid.
630
00:41:35,709 --> 00:41:39,890
Besides leaving a trail of decapitated
birds and bats in his wake,
631
00:41:39,990 --> 00:41:41,770
during one drunken bender,
632
00:41:41,870 --> 00:41:45,175
Ozzy even managed to offend
the entire state of Texas,
633
00:41:45,275 --> 00:41:47,569
while visiting one of
its heritage sites...
634
00:41:48,941 --> 00:41:50,085
The Alamo.
635
00:41:54,901 --> 00:41:57,754
I was legless with a bottle
of Courvoisier in my hand
636
00:41:57,789 --> 00:41:59,409
at nine o'clock in the morning,
637
00:41:59,509 --> 00:42:00,922
and I wanted to take a pee.
638
00:42:01,155 --> 00:42:04,980
So I find this old wall, I believe
I had this green evening dress on,
639
00:42:05,180 --> 00:42:07,292
I'm standing there
having a leak...
640
00:42:11,527 --> 00:42:15,245
when this guy goes mental,
this deputy marshal or whatever...
641
00:42:15,494 --> 00:42:20,793
"There he is!" And I was dressed in
one of my wife's green evening dresses
642
00:42:20,828 --> 00:42:23,178
urinating up the fucking Alamo.
643
00:42:25,191 --> 00:42:27,682
Ozzy's antics didn't go unnoticed.
644
00:42:30,038 --> 00:42:32,843
# Screams break the silence
645
00:42:33,162 --> 00:42:34,816
While his fans adored him,
646
00:42:34,916 --> 00:42:39,148
others saw Ozzy Osborne as a corrupting
influence on the youth of America.
647
00:42:39,919 --> 00:42:42,929
# He's Returned to kill the light
648
00:42:44,117 --> 00:42:48,235
Incensed by the music's explicit
lyrics and satanic themes
649
00:42:48,335 --> 00:42:51,131
by the mid eighties, the American
moral majority
650
00:42:51,231 --> 00:42:53,752
had heavy metal firmly
in its sights.
651
00:42:57,186 --> 00:42:59,498
Once MTV started catching on,
652
00:42:59,598 --> 00:43:01,973
suddenly this got into
middle of America.
653
00:43:02,073 --> 00:43:03,601
And they could see these bands.
654
00:43:03,701 --> 00:43:05,463
But I think sometimes the parents,
655
00:43:05,563 --> 00:43:10,092
especially the more right-wing
Christians that were there,
656
00:43:10,192 --> 00:43:11,930
got a little bit upset about that.
657
00:43:15,670 --> 00:43:22,621
That particular form of entertainment
has explicit violence, explicit sex.
658
00:43:24,407 --> 00:43:27,307
We really don't see
the entertainment value in this.
659
00:43:27,387 --> 00:43:30,784
So many of the participants
are high on drugs, they're drunk.
660
00:43:30,819 --> 00:43:33,792
It's a dangerous place
for these young people to be.
661
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,272
We feel it is very harmful for
the young people in the community.
662
00:43:39,766 --> 00:43:43,783
Hot on metal's trail,
was the Parents Music Resource Center,
663
00:43:43,883 --> 00:43:46,120
organised by a group
of Washington wives
664
00:43:46,220 --> 00:43:48,331
led by Al Gore's wife, Tippa,
665
00:43:48,431 --> 00:43:50,873
who saw to it that metal's
extreme content
666
00:43:50,973 --> 00:43:53,401
was the subject of
congressional debate.
667
00:43:54,509 --> 00:43:58,170
Songs glorifying rape,
or incest, or bondage...
668
00:43:58,370 --> 00:44:01,854
- Or sex at gunpoint.
- Or brutality against women.
669
00:44:03,075 --> 00:44:05,999
A lot of Americans had been
twisted to think that
670
00:44:06,099 --> 00:44:10,427
what this PMRC organisation was
projecting was fact, it was the truth.
671
00:44:10,527 --> 00:44:14,430
That Metal was evil and destructive
and killing our kids and...
672
00:44:14,530 --> 00:44:15,818
all that load of bollocks.
673
00:44:17,027 --> 00:44:19,793
It's sometimes amusing
and sometimes unfortunate
674
00:44:19,893 --> 00:44:22,508
where people will bring
their own conclusions
675
00:44:22,608 --> 00:44:26,291
and portray us in a way
that we never intended to be.
676
00:44:29,527 --> 00:44:30,612
...a double shooting.
677
00:44:30,712 --> 00:44:31,574
Is anybody hurt?
678
00:44:31,674 --> 00:44:34,539
Two kids shot at each other.
679
00:44:36,181 --> 00:44:38,537
The moral panic surrounding
heavy metal
680
00:44:38,637 --> 00:44:40,813
reached its peak in 1985,
681
00:44:40,913 --> 00:44:44,059
when two Judas Priest
fans attempted suicide.
682
00:44:46,376 --> 00:44:50,404
The band was accused of including
subliminal messages in their records
683
00:44:50,504 --> 00:44:51,852
and brought to trial.
684
00:44:53,217 --> 00:44:56,730
All rise, court is now in session.
685
00:44:56,830 --> 00:44:58,852
Thank you ladies and gentlemen.
Please be seated.
686
00:45:00,758 --> 00:45:05,668
What is on trial is whether there are
subliminal messages present,
687
00:45:05,768 --> 00:45:10,811
and if so, if they have an effect
upon the listener.
688
00:45:12,248 --> 00:45:15,933
We were just absolutely gutted
about this tragedy.
689
00:45:16,133 --> 00:45:21,185
These two guys that were hardcore
Priest metalhead fans.
690
00:45:21,285 --> 00:45:22,730
They loved the band.
691
00:45:22,990 --> 00:45:26,068
One literally blew his head off
and his mate...
692
00:45:26,268 --> 00:45:28,601
was freaking out and didn't know
what to do,
693
00:45:28,701 --> 00:45:30,454
this is what came out in court,
694
00:45:30,554 --> 00:45:33,820
and then he felt he had no choice
but to try and do the same thing.
695
00:45:33,855 --> 00:45:39,741
But he didn't take his own life.
He ended up being terribly disfigured.
696
00:45:40,012 --> 00:45:43,825
The evidence in this case, will show
that on December 23rd,
697
00:45:44,025 --> 00:45:46,270
Raymond Belknap this shotgun,
698
00:45:46,705 --> 00:45:48,391
placed it under his chin
699
00:45:48,891 --> 00:45:50,384
and pulled the trigger.
700
00:45:51,153 --> 00:45:53,454
Ending his young life of 18 years.
701
00:45:54,143 --> 00:45:55,198
If we hadn't had gone,
702
00:45:55,298 --> 00:45:58,480
we basically couldn't have gone back
to America without being arrested.
703
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:00,458
We were just absolutely gutted.
704
00:46:00,558 --> 00:46:02,857
Firstly about this tragedy,
705
00:46:03,057 --> 00:46:05,111
and then the fact that
we were being accused
706
00:46:05,146 --> 00:46:07,437
of something
we had nothing to do with.
707
00:46:07,822 --> 00:46:09,879
All this silly thing about
subliminal messages
708
00:46:09,979 --> 00:46:11,154
this *** and the other.
709
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:13,240
I heard the words "do it",
710
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:16,932
but I didn't understand
in what context or why it was there.
711
00:46:24,097 --> 00:46:29,538
Are there subliminal "do its" on the
'Better than you, better than me' song?
712
00:46:29,738 --> 00:46:31,025
Absolutely not.
713
00:46:32,652 --> 00:46:34,625
In a blow to the moral majority
714
00:46:34,725 --> 00:46:36,413
the court case was thrown out
715
00:46:36,513 --> 00:46:38,944
and the charges against
Judas Priest dropped.
716
00:46:41,122 --> 00:46:42,873
If we had lost that case,
in actual fact,
717
00:46:42,908 --> 00:46:45,536
every record that had been made,
heavy metal or not,
718
00:46:45,571 --> 00:46:49,607
every book that had been written
would've had a subliminal message in it.
719
00:46:49,675 --> 00:46:51,242
They would have come out
of the woodwork,
720
00:46:51,342 --> 00:46:53,601
and life would have changed overnight.
721
00:46:54,439 --> 00:46:57,593
We flew the flag for metal,
as corny as that might sound,
722
00:46:57,628 --> 00:46:59,384
that's what we felt we were doing.
723
00:46:59,444 --> 00:47:01,179
And we came through it ok.
724
00:47:04,248 --> 00:47:06,845
Not only did the campaigners
lose the court case,
725
00:47:06,945 --> 00:47:08,972
they were also loosing the war.
726
00:47:12,173 --> 00:47:15,677
Back in L.A., Motley Crew
still reigned supreme,
727
00:47:16,984 --> 00:47:19,794
only now they had lots
of company.
728
00:47:22,670 --> 00:47:26,281
Los Angeles was flooded
with bands that looked like them.
729
00:47:26,381 --> 00:47:28,910
It was like rush hour
on the Sunset Strip.
730
00:47:29,010 --> 00:47:30,529
If you would try to walk down
that street,
731
00:47:30,564 --> 00:47:33,195
you were almost asphyxiated
by the smell of hairspray.
732
00:47:33,295 --> 00:47:35,151
It was ridiculous.
733
00:47:35,251 --> 00:47:36,967
And you would fall over
men tottering around
734
00:47:37,067 --> 00:47:38,310
in high heels and spandex,
735
00:47:38,345 --> 00:47:40,411
which actually wasn't quite so bad.
736
00:47:46,364 --> 00:47:50,866
Groups like Poison,
Hanoi Rocks and Wasp,
737
00:47:50,966 --> 00:47:53,113
had all followed
the Motley game plan,
738
00:47:53,213 --> 00:47:56,024
and earned multi-platinum
sales as a result.
739
00:47:57,414 --> 00:47:58,852
It was critically and
commercially huge.
740
00:47:58,887 --> 00:48:01,850
This was the music in the charts.
This was what 'Towel Records' sold.
741
00:48:01,885 --> 00:48:04,709
This was the mainstream and metal
had never had that before.
742
00:48:06,392 --> 00:48:08,761
It just became too big,
it became too complacent.
743
00:48:08,833 --> 00:48:12,728
Metal always get bloated
and self-satisfied and bored of itself.
744
00:48:12,828 --> 00:48:14,720
And it kind of just sits around
going, "Well, what next?"
745
00:48:14,820 --> 00:48:16,776
And of course, something
always does come up.
746
00:48:21,060 --> 00:48:25,790
This one is gotta kill all the fake
people out there, all the posers.
747
00:48:32,058 --> 00:48:35,348
Cutting through the commercial
sound and look of hair metal,
748
00:48:35,448 --> 00:48:37,602
was a radical underground scene.
749
00:48:41,292 --> 00:48:43,532
At the forefront
were four misfits
750
00:48:43,632 --> 00:48:45,669
based up the coast
in San Francisco,
751
00:48:46,256 --> 00:48:47,495
Metallica.
752
00:48:50,047 --> 00:48:51,003
# No remorse
753
00:48:51,493 --> 00:48:52,433
# No repent
754
00:48:52,533 --> 00:48:54,715
# We don't care what it meant
755
00:48:54,815 --> 00:48:55,947
# Another day
756
00:48:56,047 --> 00:48:57,279
# Another death
757
00:48:57,379 --> 00:48:58,566
# Another sorrow
758
00:48:58,766 --> 00:48:59,634
# Another breath
759
00:48:59,834 --> 00:49:00,700
# No remorse
760
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:01,998
# No repent
761
00:49:02,198 --> 00:49:04,621
# We don't care what it meant
762
00:49:04,721 --> 00:49:05,720
# Another day
763
00:49:05,820 --> 00:49:07,053
# Another death
764
00:49:07,153 --> 00:49:08,222
# Another sorrow
765
00:49:08,322 --> 00:49:09,560
# Another breath
766
00:49:10,992 --> 00:49:13,542
What was being shown on MTV
767
00:49:13,577 --> 00:49:17,460
and what was on the radio
was not the metal we knew or loved.
768
00:49:18,562 --> 00:49:22,097
It was pretty much pop,
big hair,
769
00:49:22,197 --> 00:49:25,102
get on the radio,
get all the chicks you could.
770
00:49:25,202 --> 00:49:27,268
It was the enemy at the time, truly.
771
00:49:27,368 --> 00:49:29,519
We were pretty much
doing the opposite.
772
00:49:30,625 --> 00:49:33,992
We always just avoided
all the clichés lyrically.
773
00:49:34,192 --> 00:49:37,289
All the party stuff,
all the stuff about the devil
774
00:49:37,389 --> 00:49:39,443
and the sword and sorcery
and all that bullshit.
775
00:49:41,054 --> 00:49:42,703
We were more interested in singing
776
00:49:42,738 --> 00:49:46,097
about alienation and rebellion
and all this type of stuff.
777
00:49:46,132 --> 00:49:49,978
Which really wasn't going on
a lot in American hard rock.
778
00:49:50,508 --> 00:49:53,542
# Master of Puppets
I'm pulling your strings
779
00:49:54,340 --> 00:49:57,445
# Twisting your mind,
smashing your dreams
780
00:49:58,276 --> 00:50:00,934
# Blinded by me,
you can't see a thing
781
00:50:01,034 --> 00:50:03,979
# Just call my name,
'cause I'll hear you scream
782
00:50:04,307 --> 00:50:05,149
# Master
783
00:50:05,418 --> 00:50:06,389
# Master
784
00:50:07,373 --> 00:50:10,156
The thing that set Metallica off
right from the start was
785
00:50:10,256 --> 00:50:11,205
they were no bullshit.
786
00:50:11,305 --> 00:50:13,198
There was no frilly extras.
787
00:50:13,298 --> 00:50:19,336
It was drive, it was the riff,
it was just forward motion.
788
00:50:19,436 --> 00:50:23,346
And, certainly in the beginning,
at very, very high speed.
789
00:50:27,088 --> 00:50:30,076
Metallica's brand of fast
and angry heavy metal
790
00:50:30,176 --> 00:50:32,061
attracted the label 'thrash'.
791
00:50:39,172 --> 00:50:45,155
'Thrash metal' was just 'heavy metal'
once again taken beyond.
792
00:50:45,255 --> 00:50:47,662
You didn't think it could
go any further,
793
00:50:47,762 --> 00:50:50,640
it's now gone way further.
794
00:50:50,740 --> 00:50:54,683
Essentially, it's heavy, heavy,
heavy music,
795
00:50:54,783 --> 00:50:58,213
but done even faster,
even more bleak.
796
00:51:04,190 --> 00:51:07,501
The longer your hair,
the dirtier your clothes,
797
00:51:07,601 --> 00:51:10,166
or the more street you looked,
the better.
798
00:51:10,366 --> 00:51:13,955
I guess it was more...
the more real you were,
799
00:51:14,055 --> 00:51:16,326
or trying to be as real
as possible...
800
00:51:16,526 --> 00:51:18,910
We wanted attention
and we wanted it now.
801
00:51:21,905 --> 00:51:25,290
Over a period of time,
Metallica slowly built something.
802
00:51:25,390 --> 00:51:26,324
The were down to earth,
803
00:51:26,424 --> 00:51:28,347
they looked like they
belonged on the street,
804
00:51:28,447 --> 00:51:30,443
and had a real sense of headbang.
805
00:51:30,543 --> 00:51:32,207
Which was the thing at the time.
806
00:51:32,307 --> 00:51:34,995
Let's get it really headbang
and moshpits and so forth.
807
00:51:35,095 --> 00:51:37,070
For a period of 7 or 8 years,
808
00:51:37,170 --> 00:51:41,045
Metallica became the most vital
metal band on the planet.
809
00:51:45,562 --> 00:51:48,992
# Make his fight on the hill
in the early day
810
00:51:49,092 --> 00:51:51,055
# Constant chill deep inside
811
00:51:51,539 --> 00:51:54,482
By the end of the 80s,
Metallica and thrash metal
812
00:51:54,582 --> 00:51:56,109
were edging into the mainstream.
813
00:51:57,835 --> 00:52:01,119
But the band knew,
if they were to survive the next decade,
814
00:52:01,219 --> 00:52:03,060
they were going to have to change.
815
00:52:03,087 --> 00:52:05,143
# Stiffened wounds test their pride
816
00:52:09,824 --> 00:52:11,445
I remember James telling
me at the time,
817
00:52:11,645 --> 00:52:14,446
how many times can you be
the fastest guy around?
818
00:52:14,546 --> 00:52:18,919
At some point you have to say,
why not be a little slower,
819
00:52:18,954 --> 00:52:20,371
why not make it heavier?
820
00:52:20,744 --> 00:52:24,503
See what else you can do
at a different speed.
821
00:52:26,454 --> 00:52:28,624
We wanted to get bigger
and thicker sounding.
822
00:52:28,659 --> 00:52:32,036
We wanted to sound as huge
as we were live.
823
00:52:32,616 --> 00:52:35,453
Ironically, the sound that impressed
the group the most
824
00:52:35,553 --> 00:52:38,584
had been created for
Metallica's archenemy...
825
00:52:42,194 --> 00:52:43,381
Motley Crew.
826
00:52:44,126 --> 00:52:46,272
# He's the one they
call Dr. Feel good
827
00:52:46,373 --> 00:52:48,490
# He's the one that
makes ya feel all right
828
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:51,121
I take the Motely Crew record,
'Dr. Feelgood'...
829
00:52:51,221 --> 00:52:53,697
we'd never heard a record
that sounded that good,
830
00:52:53,797 --> 00:52:58,808
that had that kind of size
to the bottom and the base drum.
831
00:52:59,008 --> 00:53:00,762
It was just "Fuck!"
832
00:53:02,460 --> 00:53:04,398
This record sounded gigantic
833
00:53:04,498 --> 00:53:08,177
and we wanted to explore
some of that sound.
834
00:53:10,428 --> 00:53:14,136
Motely's album, 'Dr. Feelgood',
was created by legendary producer
835
00:53:14,236 --> 00:53:15,211
Bob Rock.
836
00:53:16,915 --> 00:53:20,062
When they suggested Bob Rock,
we went, "Wow! What has he done?"
837
00:53:20,097 --> 00:53:22,676
And when they said "Motley Crew."
"Oh, my God! No!"
838
00:53:22,967 --> 00:53:25,515
"That can't be, are you sure?"
839
00:53:27,051 --> 00:53:28,490
Bob Rock's first task
840
00:53:28,590 --> 00:53:32,006
was to get the band to rethink
the way they recorded their music.
841
00:53:34,064 --> 00:53:35,778
They built everything around James,
842
00:53:35,813 --> 00:53:37,762
who'd lay down a guitar track
to a click track.
843
00:53:37,862 --> 00:53:40,882
Everybody overdubbed everything
and I'm going like, "Well.
844
00:53:40,917 --> 00:53:42,255
"What the hell's that?"
845
00:53:42,355 --> 00:53:45,061
"There's no vibe. Why don't you
playing in one room?"
846
00:53:45,161 --> 00:53:48,493
Which is what I had done with all
the bands I had learned how to record.
847
00:53:48,593 --> 00:53:50,275
So I set them up in a room.
848
00:53:51,262 --> 00:53:53,086
With Rock laying down the law,
849
00:53:53,186 --> 00:53:57,318
tensions between producer and band
began rising to the surface.
850
00:53:58,874 --> 00:53:59,917
We'd never been in a studio
851
00:53:59,918 --> 00:54:02,275
with anybody telling us what
to do, or how to do it or...
852
00:54:02,375 --> 00:54:03,299
challenging us.
853
00:54:03,399 --> 00:54:06,702
Now all of a sudden there was this guy
saying, "Wait, try it this way" or
854
00:54:06,802 --> 00:54:09,595
"Why don't you change key there,
why don't you try a different drum fill,
855
00:54:09,695 --> 00:54:11,506
"or why don't you
sing that differently?"
856
00:54:12,066 --> 00:54:13,979
That's what I'm saying,
the base should be with them,
857
00:54:14,079 --> 00:54:15,839
right there
doing the same part,
858
00:54:16,039 --> 00:54:17,892
but just not like...
859
00:54:18,834 --> 00:54:21,089
We were pretty full of spunk
at the time,
860
00:54:21,189 --> 00:54:25,037
and nobody were gonna tell us what
the fuck to do with any of this stuff.*
861
00:54:25,333 --> 00:54:27,294
Working with Bob
on the 'Black Record'
862
00:54:27,394 --> 00:54:30,929
was not without its horrors,
I think, for him.
863
00:54:31,029 --> 00:54:32,322
Bob used to be a woman.
864
00:54:35,550 --> 00:54:38,222
I felt like they hated me.
They probably did.
865
00:54:38,696 --> 00:54:41,308
Look what Bob Rock looked like
ten years ago.
866
00:54:41,508 --> 00:54:43,424
This guy is on the side
by himself.
867
00:54:43,586 --> 00:54:46,141
- Is he like the leader or...?
- Yeah, he's the leader.
868
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:47,779
He told you what to do?
869
00:54:47,879 --> 00:54:49,432
That girly looking guy?
870
00:54:49,674 --> 00:54:53,064
Ok, let's rock it.
It's fucking 2 o'clock in the morning.
871
00:54:53,164 --> 00:54:56,541
There's nobody in LA right
now who's having any fun.
872
00:54:56,576 --> 00:54:57,683
They're all in bed.
873
00:54:57,783 --> 00:54:59,592
There was a lot of...
874
00:55:01,807 --> 00:55:05,151
We didn't want to give up any
of our control but we knew we had to.
875
00:55:09,156 --> 00:55:12,532
The sound is what we wanted
and he came in and he knew exactly
876
00:55:12,632 --> 00:55:14,102
what to do with us.
877
00:55:14,202 --> 00:55:18,728
And slowly became trusted
another seven of years.
878
00:55:22,855 --> 00:55:26,099
We wanted to try and simplify
things a little bit.
879
00:55:26,725 --> 00:55:28,148
And as soon as we started writing,
880
00:55:28,149 --> 00:55:29,966
the first song we wrote
was 'Enter Sandman',
881
00:55:30,001 --> 00:55:32,260
it was like, "This is working."
882
00:55:36,381 --> 00:55:40,546
It's pretty good but it just needs
a little more... sore character.
883
00:55:40,734 --> 00:55:43,558
'Enter Sandman' was to be
the album's first single,
884
00:55:43,658 --> 00:55:45,830
but while the music came
together quickly,
885
00:55:45,930 --> 00:55:48,562
the lyrics were more problematic.
886
00:55:49,179 --> 00:55:52,130
I came in with the lyrics
and Bob and Lars said,
887
00:55:52,165 --> 00:55:53,189
"They're not good enough."
888
00:55:53,552 --> 00:55:57,635
And I couldn't believe it, you know,
no one's ever challenged my lyrics.
889
00:55:57,735 --> 00:56:01,265
I said, "Well, ok. There's a challenge."
890
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,027
# Say your prayers little one
891
00:56:06,127 --> 00:56:07,902
# Don't forget, my son
892
00:56:08,002 --> 00:56:10,864
# To include everyone
893
00:56:11,833 --> 00:56:13,937
# Tuck you in, warm within
894
00:56:14,037 --> 00:56:15,687
# Keep you free from sin
895
00:56:15,787 --> 00:56:18,675
# Till the sandman he comes
896
00:56:20,259 --> 00:56:23,425
# Sleep with one eye open
897
00:56:23,925 --> 00:56:26,657
# Gripping your pillow tight
898
00:56:27,061 --> 00:56:30,055
# Exit light
899
00:56:30,549 --> 00:56:33,833
# Enter night
900
00:56:34,223 --> 00:56:37,437
# Take my hand
901
00:56:37,980 --> 00:56:40,359
# Off to never never land
902
00:56:42,993 --> 00:56:46,664
The rewritten lyrics dealt with
the universal fear of nightmares,
903
00:56:46,764 --> 00:56:49,425
and the beast lurking
under the bed.
904
00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:00,483
# Now I lay me down to sleep
905
00:57:00,529 --> 00:57:04,581
# Pray the lord my soul to keep
906
00:57:04,681 --> 00:57:06,462
# If I die before I wake
907
00:57:06,601 --> 00:57:10,927
Putting the prayer in there really
touched a lot of nerves with people.
908
00:57:11,027 --> 00:57:15,049
That was like the ultimate innocence
909
00:57:15,349 --> 00:57:19,302
of, wow!, a child's room saying
his prayers and all of a sudden
910
00:57:19,502 --> 00:57:22,846
the Sandman's dropping this
nightmares in there and wow!
911
00:57:23,146 --> 00:57:24,990
It's so wrong.
It's disturbing.
912
00:57:25,090 --> 00:57:27,044
It's not supposed to be.
913
00:57:27,646 --> 00:57:30,264
# Exit light
914
00:57:31,285 --> 00:57:34,361
# Enter night
915
00:57:34,918 --> 00:57:38,169
# Grain of sand
916
00:57:38,350 --> 00:57:40,368
# Exit light
917
00:57:40,472 --> 00:57:42,498
When the 'Black Album'
was finally released,
918
00:57:42,598 --> 00:57:44,349
it became an instant phenomenon,
919
00:57:44,449 --> 00:57:48,453
and went on to sell over
15 million copies worldwide.
920
00:57:49,421 --> 00:57:51,713
# Were off to never never land
921
00:57:51,867 --> 00:57:54,239
With that one album
they proved a point.
922
00:57:54,339 --> 00:57:57,253
That you could be of your time,
ahead of your time,
923
00:57:57,353 --> 00:58:01,782
but also do it without
actually kowtowering to the suits.
924
00:58:01,882 --> 00:58:03,730
They did the record
they wanted to do.
925
00:58:03,930 --> 00:58:05,227
But always bore in mind
926
00:58:05,327 --> 00:58:08,344
they could take metal to a bigger
audience, which they did.
927
00:58:08,444 --> 00:58:11,142
# Exit light
928
00:58:11,335 --> 00:58:15,018
With the 'Black Album', Metallica
took thrash to the world
929
00:58:15,118 --> 00:58:18,344
and heavy metal into
its third decade.
930
00:58:19,066 --> 00:58:22,099
# Were off to never never land
931
00:58:23,021 --> 00:58:25,122
Most genres in rock
have their moment,
932
00:58:25,222 --> 00:58:26,878
and that moment
soon passes.
933
00:58:27,178 --> 00:58:29,560
The 'Black Album' proved that metal,
934
00:58:29,660 --> 00:58:32,330
never in fashion
but never out of fashion,
935
00:58:32,430 --> 00:58:35,111
will always just keep on going.
936
00:58:36,465 --> 00:58:40,209
It'll never die. It's like when
they drop all the bombs,
937
00:58:40,309 --> 00:58:42,615
there'll be some cockroach
playing some riff.
938
00:58:43,104 --> 00:58:44,142
Somewhere.
939
00:58:51,943 --> 00:58:53,968
Next week on 'Seven Ages of Rock',
940
00:58:54,268 --> 00:58:57,434
enter the gladiators
of stadium rock,
941
00:58:57,690 --> 00:59:01,621
with Led Zeppelin,
Bruce Springsteen, and U2.
942
00:59:05,740 --> 00:59:08,248
To find out more about
'The Seven Ages of Rock'
943
00:59:08,283 --> 00:59:11,129
and see some extra stories
featuring artists in the series,
944
00:59:11,164 --> 00:59:15,189
go to "bbc.co.uk/sevenages".
945
00:59:16,060 --> 00:59:19,692
Transcription and
synchronization by Fry.
946
00:59:22,692 --> 00:59:26,692
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