Classic Rock Magazine July 2017 Back Issue

PRIEST, SAXON, MOTORHEAD, MAIDEN AND THE RISE OF THE NWOBHM
In the late 70s, rock music was given a steel-booted kick up the backside by a new breed of band. As the seventies hurtled towards its conclusion, a new wave of heavy bands from all corners of the United Kingdom sparked off a grass-roots revolution, rewriting the rule book on how things could be done and giving their more established counterparts a shot in the arm. Its leading lights would go on to achieve the unthinkable, but even the bands who didn’t and got left behind, the foot soldiers, also rans and no-hopers were heroes in their own way. For a few glorious years in the late seventies and early eighties, these small islands were the epicentre of the most vibrant, exciting and ground breaking scene around. This is the story of how British rock heavied up and changed the world once again…