Rob Halford of Judas Priest

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Rob Halford is a legend in the world of metal music. He is the lead vocalist of heavy metal group Judas Priest. He recently released an autobiography called Confess. In it, he shares some truly incredible stories: like the time he handcuffed himself to Andy Warhol or when he explained heavy-metal to Queen Elizabeth. We're revisiting our interview with Rob from 2009. In this conversation Rob Halford reflects on the legacy of Judas Priest. Plus, coming to terms with his queer identity and his coming out within the metal community. We also talked about holiday music. When Rob joined us he had just released the heavy metal holiday record – Halford III – Winter Songs. And for even more holiday tunes check out Celestial by Rob Halford with Family & Friends from last year.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:20.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:22.0	If you have a computer in front of you, do me a favor.
0:25.0	Go to Wikipedia and search for the term, MetalGod.
0:29.0	Like, the God of Heavy Metal.
0:31.0	As soon as you hit Enter, you will not be transported to the page of Aussie Osborne,
0:37.0	not the page of Lemmy or Eddie Van Halen.
0:40.0	There is only one true MetalGod.
0:43.0	At least according to the crowd edited website Wikipedia,
0:47.0	that MetalGod is Rob Halfern, lead singer of Judas Priest, and my guest this week.
0:53.0	I don't know if we need much more of an introduction than Matt, actually.
0:56.0	We're listening back to my 2009 conversation with Rob,
1:00.0	because back then, Rob had just released his first ever Heavy Metal Holiday Record.
1:05.0	He called it Halford 3 Winter Songs.
1:08.0	Since then, he has released another holiday album, last year's Celestial.
1:13.0	And he has a new book, Confess the Autobiography.
1:16.0	It tells the story of Halferd's life from the man himself, came out just a few months ago.
1:21.0	Before we go into the interview, let's kick things off with a certified
1:25.0	Rob Halferd Metal God Holiday Classic.
1:28.0	His take on We Three Kicks.
1:31.0	We take things off all we use on.
1:36.0	There it gets, we strap us for fun.
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