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“Bob says: ‘Where you from?’ I say, ‘Birmingham’. He goes, ‘Birmingham? How’s Ozzy!’”: the unlikely time Rob Halford met Bob Dylan, the man who gave Judas Priest their name Rob Halford has only met Bob Dylan once, but he’s never forgotten the hilarious conversation that followed
“It was all a bit Jethro Tull-y and witchy-woo”: the iconic Bruce Dickinson solo song that began life as an idea for an ‘acoustic’ Iron Maiden album that was never made How a rejected Iron Maiden song written in the mid-80s became a Bruce Dickinson classic almost 10 years later
Historic status awarded to Birmingham pub dubbed ‘birthplace of heavy metal’ where Black Sabbath made their debut Black Sabbath played their first gig at The Crown – which has been saved from potential demolition by new 'listed' status