Later this month, Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford will release his autobiography Confess. In it, The Metal God shares stories from a life like no other, spending over 50 years in the heavy metal bubble, facing adversity head-on but always with a wry smile and horns held firmly aloft. In this exclusive extract, Rob remembers the time he ‘borrowed’ some John Lennon memorabilia and his first encounter with Iron Maiden. En route to a gig up north, I had glanced out of the car window and seen a huge sign outside a factory: BRITISH STEEL. It seemed to me to sum up our album in every way. A Polish designer, Rozlaw Szaybo, who had already done the covers for Stained Class and Killing Machine, gave us the sleeve image of a hand holding a razor blade emblazoned with our name ...
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