Heavy Metal Britannia

00:00:02 This programme contains some strong language

00:03:44 It's inner city music, isn't it?

00:07:20 We were waiting for that first little box on the floor with a button on it, to go wargh!

00:11:43 # I like smoke and lightnin'

00:16:10 By the time we'd finished and our audience had finished with us...

00:20:48 Old Boris Karloff ones

00:24:57 We were just reflecting on what our reality really did feel like.

00:28:44 I was the same with music.

00:33:27 they didn't need to translate it or anything else.

00:37:51 than the paranoia of Black Sabbath.

00:40:55 The essential thing for a metal song

00:44:28 We got very loud.

00:48:50 There's a need for something new.

00:52:04 power in a great way to make people feel good and have a good time.

00:55:56 They came out of the woodwork, some real strange people, witches and all sorts of things.

00:59:44 very early on in our career, because things got

01:03:38 In a desolate location near London's North Circular

01:07:23 it said exactly what

01:10:23 You know, all that.

01:14:27 I was the one going to the record company, giving all the lines, you know?

01:18:08 one of strikes, three-day working weeks and winters of discontent.

01:21:53 a classicist, when he first saw Iron Maiden perform.

01:25:02 and drum kits on the backs of things

08:00:09 hundred if they can is these huge, massive percussion sections and