A History of Heavy Metal
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (928 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0714MVXG4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 118 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It is the story of a worldwide network of rabid fans escaping everyday mundanity through music, of cutthroat corporate arseholes ripping off those fans and the bands they worship to line their pockets. Based on the "absolutely hilarious" (Neil Gaiman) stand-up show. Award-winning comedian and lifelong heavy metal obsessive Andrew O'Neill has performed his History of Heavy Metal comedy show to a huge range of audiences, from the teenage metalheads of Download festival to the broadsheet-reading theatregoers of the Edinburgh Fringe. The history of heavy metal brings us extraordinary stories of larger-than-life characters living to excess, from the household names of Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Iron Maiden and Metallica to the brutal notoriety of the underground Norwegian black metal scene and the New Wave of British h