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1 апр 2025 :	ROB HALFORD
6 фев 2025 :	JUDAS PRIEST's ROB HALFORD: 'I Used To Have Really Bad Depression'
16 окт 2024 :	ROB HALFORD Laments Political Polarization In America: 'It's So Difficult Now To Have A Simple Disagreement'
7 сен 2024 :	ROB HALFORD, SLASH And Others Donate Items For KITTEN RESCUE's 2024 'Fur Ball' Charity Auction
28 авг 2024 :	JUDAS PRIEST's ROB HALFORD: 'I'm Here. I'm Queer. Get Used To It.'
18 июл 2024 :	ROB HALFORD Says His Prostate Cancer Is Still In Remission
15 май 2024 :	ROB HALFORD On The Possibility Of Performing With BRUCE DICKINSON During Festival Dates This Year - "We Have A Great Friendship, So Anything's Possible" (Video)
29 апр 2024 :	ROB HALFORD: 'We Live In A World Today Now Where Lies Can Be Pushed So Strongly And So Forcefully That' They 'Become The Truth'
23 апр 2024 :	JUDAS PRIEST's ROB HALFORD: 'I Used To Be Terribly Lonely Because Of Having To Live A Double Life'
26 мар 2024 :	ROB HALFORD Says All The Music Is 'Ready' For His Debut Blues Solo Album
19 фев 2024 :	JUDAS PRIEST's ROB HALFORD: 'Heavy Metal Cats, They Rule'
8 фев 2024 :	ROB HALFORD On Metal Community: 'We Look At Each Other And We Embrace Each Other, Because We Love Heavy Metal'
28 янв 2024 :	ROB HALFORD On METALLICA: 'They're The Most Amazing People In The Business As Far As Keeping Your Feet On The Ground'
8 янв 2024 :	JUDAS PRIEST's ROB HALFORD Celebrates 38 Years Of Sobriety
22 ноя 2023 :	DOLLY PARTON On ROB HALFORD: 'I Just Loved Him'
22 ноя 2023 :	JUDAS PRIEST's ROB HALFORD On Performing With DOLLY PARTON - "I Was All Over Her Like A Rash... A Total Fanboy"
15 ноя 2023 :	ROB HALFORD Says He Was Shtting Himself Covering For OZZY OSBOURNE - "Fckin’ Hell Tony, I’m Gonna Get Booed Off"
18 окт 2023 :	JUDAS PRIEST's ROB HALFORD On Political Targeting Of LGBTQ Community: 'People Are Terrified'
28 сен 2023 :	ROB HALFORD, SLASH, TOMMY LEE And Others Donate Items For KITTEN RESCUE's 'Fur Ball' Charity Auction
19 сен 2023 :	Classic HALFORD Titles To Be Released On Vinyl For The First Time Ever
23 авг 2023 :	What Albums Would JUDAS PRIEST's ROB HALFORD Take To A Desert Island?
10 июл 2023 :	RICHIE FAULKNER Reveals The Best Piece Of Advice He Ever Got From ROB HALFORD
25 июн 2023 :	ROB HALFORD's Duet With DOLLY PARTON Debuts At No. 1 On Mediabase Classic Rock Songs Chart
19 июн 2023 :	Hear ROB HALFORD Duet With DOLLY PARTON On New Song 'Bygones' Feat. NIKKI SIXX And JOHN 5
8 мар 2023 :	ROB HALFORD Says He Was Approached About Contributing To DOLLY PARTON's Rock Album
3 мар 2023 :	ROB HALFORD On Singing With BLACK SABBATH In 1992 And 2004: 'That Was Amazing'

20 дек 2021

Who Wore The Leather Biker Look First: ROB HALFORD Or FREDDIE MERCURY? The JUDAS PRIEST Singer Weighs In

In a recent interview with Spain's Mariskal Rock, JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford was asked who wore the "leather biker look" first — him or late QUEEN frontman Freddie Mercury. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I remember seeing a picture of Freddie with his leather jacket and a cap and a motorcycle, and I'm, like, 'What the fuck is going on, Freddie?' [Laughs]

"I love him. Freddie is a god — he's a god," Rob continued. "His music, his voice, his showmanship, his personality, his charisma. There'll never, ever be another Freddie Mercury.

"But as far as who wore it first, I think I did probably — maybe by a year or two," Halford added. "Yeah, if that's important. I don't know. Is it important? I'll tell you something: we both look good in leather. [Laughs]"

Three years ago, former JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing was quoted as saying in Greg Prato's book "Long Live Queen: Rock Royalty Discuss Freddie, Brian, John & Roger" that Halford "definitely" pulled off the "leather biker look" better than Mercury. "Actually, that's probably one of the best questions I've ever been asked," Downing said. "Because both of the guys, obviously being gay and both obviously having donned the leathers — which is par for the course — I think the difference was it became Rob's ultimate and permanent image. Whereas Freddie did it for a bit of fun, I think. But [it is] a fun question — I like that a lot. Definitely Rob looked like the epitome — as I hope we all did, together, when we all eventually got into the leather gear — of an archetypal heavy metal band."

In his 2018 autobiography "Heavy Duty: Days And Nights In Judas Priest", Downing claimed to have come up with PRIEST black-leather look. Asked what inspired it in the first place, K.K. told Rolling Stone: "I don't know. I had some pretty cool looks in the early days. I started off with a black, swashbuckling look. There was a place called the Birmingham Reparatory Theatre and underneath it were massive alcoves of all these theatrical clothes. We found out we could rent those clothes, and that became me and Rob's spot. We looked through all these things, and that's why we wore some of these coats and boots; they were all rented from this theater. I think we eventually got told off because we didn't return the clothes in time. [Laughs] We just held on to them. Eventually, we got a little bit of money and started having clothes of our own made and the look just came piece by piece. [Laughs]"

Asked if it was easy to get the rest of the band on board, Downing said: "Some members in the band like to think everything's their idea. I thought, 'I'll get Rob on board to start with.' There were a couple of gay guys at the leather shop in London and Rob was in his element [laughs] with these guys fitting him out in all this leather gear. Gays were already wearing leather in London so it was an easy sell for Rob. He was on board with that but also because we weren't trying to do that; we were doing the leather-and-studs thing in a metal way. Then he started to design all of his clothes. 'I'm having the bullwhip. I'm having this cap made.' Rob was happy for them to know that he was a gay man, but at a certain point, it started to look like a gladiator, which was completely done in metal. It opened up a massive amount of doors for him to elaborate on throughout our career."

In his 2020 autobiography "Confess", Halford credited Downing with the idea of PRIEST dressing in black leather in 1978. He wrote: "The biggest myth about this new stage gear is that I had somehow masterminded the image as a cover and a vent for my homosexuality — that I was getting a thrill from dressing on stage as I'd like to dress in the street, or the bedroom. This is utter bollocks. I had no interest in S&M, domination or the whole queer subcult of leather and chains. It just didn't do it for me. My sexual preference was for men, sure, but I was — and still am — pretty vanilla."

Who Wore The Leather Biker Look First: ROB HALFORD Or FREDDIE MERCURY? The JUDAS PRIEST Singer Weighs In

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да всем насрать!!!

Спасибо Anthrax, Sepultura, Pantera и Meshuggah за то, что избавили большинство в хэви метал от этого срамного имиджа с использованием кожи животных.

20 дек 2021

Orthodox

gravitgroove, иу, чмоки современным металистам, что они ещё и перешли на веганство с соевым смузи!

20 дек 2021

WahrandPhain

Orthodox ну я веган, соевое смузи ни разу не пил, как и никакое другое. Странные у вас стереотипы.

21 дек 2021

ElectricRetard

>Странные у вас стереотипы.
Это лишь отсылка к тому, насколько роцк потерял роцк. Когда я слышу осуждение дрочки Эллефсона, или фразы про "использование кожи животных", ладонь сама ко лбу лезет. Но я надеюсь, что это была просто шутка от Грэвити.

21 дек 2021

Hellg

Ну почему шутка? Униформа флоридского дэта это шорты и чёрные очки. У каждого стиля свои внешние атрибуты.

Да, и Cattle Decapitation не согласились бы с твоим утверждением.

21 дек 2021

gravitgroove

Дело не в самой коже из шкуры (про кожзам могли не понять), а потому, что все эти чуваки в кожанках выглядят мерзко, на мой взгляд. У тебя может быть имидж Эндрю Элдрича и, возможно, от тебя будет в восторге женский пол, либо ты выглядишь как пациент бдсм и гей клуба и маски шоу. Это утомительная и непривлекательная для взрослых людей штука, нежели малозаметный в толпе имидж аля Helmet

22 дек 2021

VittaliKazantsev

Ага спасибо Anthrax, Sepultura, Pantera за шорты))
А вообще косуха это классика. Этой модели Bomber скоро будет 100 лет. Её взлёт популярности начался после фильма Дикарь (1953) с Марлоном Брандо. Потом в косуху нарядился Элвис Пресли. И Битлз до своих костюмов с галстуками в начале 60х тоже постоянно носили косухи. Но если Халфорд имеет ввиду полную кожаную экипировку, с кожаными штанами, кепкой, перчатками, то тут наверное да, он наверное первопроходец.