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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