“These people act like we drink a gallon of blood and hang upside down from crucifixes before we go onstage,” Rob Halford says. “We’re performers, have been for two decades. We do the show and we wear the costumes our audience expect us to.”
Originally published September 4, 1990
“Motherfucking drug dealers. They want me to kill myself. They always smiling, saying, ‘Hey, Charlie, how many? You got my money?’ Nah, I can’t do it. It’s a fuckin’ nightmare.”
Originally published January 17, 1989
“James Brown, probably the most influential black musician of all time, will turn 56 in prison — and then 57 and perhaps 58 as well”
Originally published February 21, 1989