HEAVY DUTY - Dni i noce z Judas Priest - K.K. DOWNING oraz MARK EGLINTON

The memoirs of the co-founder and former lead guitarist of Judas Priest – the heavy metal legends. Judas Priest was formed in 1969 in England, in the industrial city of Birmingham. The band's distinctive sound, as well as an image based on leather clothing and studs, made Judas Priest a cult heavy metal band as early as the eighties. To this day it can boast sales of over 50 million copies of its albums worldwide. Tracks such as "Breaking the Law", "Living after Midnight" and "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" helped the band achieve extraordinary success, but until now none of its members had decided to tell his story or the story of the band. This book is the first of its kind. Judas Priest will soon celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its activity. Thanks to this book, fans will finally have the chance to look behind the scenes at decades of shocking, funny and memorable situations and stories surrounding this heavy metal institution. In Heavy Duty the guitarist K.K. Downing describes complicated clashes of personality, bad business decisions, the group's difficult relations with the members of Iron Maiden, and how Judas Priest found itself at the epicentre of parental protests attacking the heavy metal community in the 80s of the last century. He also describes his role in establishing the band's image – the black leather clothing with studs – which later became synonymous with the whole musical genre. K.K. also talks about the moment that changed his life – the moment when, on stage during a concert in 2009, he looked at his bandmates and thought: "This is my last concert". Regardless of the subject or the people involved, in this book K.K. speaks openly and frankly about everything. 268 pages + insert with photographs, paperback.