Death Metal MusicMusic and Culture on the Edge

Let’s see… My earliest memories: one of the first records my father ever bought for me was the Jacksons’ Victory . That world tour they did, with screaming fans passing out and needing to be hospitalized, so very much like when the Beatles first came to America – not that I could appreciate the comparison at the time, me being only about 9 or 10. Of course, I begged my parents to get tickets, but tickets were impossible to get. You’d have to have a persistence that my parents did not have. It

In the 1970's the UK pop charts were topped by competing glam rock acts like T.Rex, Gary Glitter, Slade, The Sweet, Mud and Alvin Stardust, which provided the greatest excitement in the UK music scene since the rise of The Beatles and Rolling Stones ten years earlier. Of these six main glam rock acts, Marc Bolan's T.Rex which grew from a two man acoustic hippie act of the late 60's into a full blown electric band with onstage pyrotechnic explosions and guitar floggings with a long whip and Gary