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METAL GODS WHO BEAT THE ODDS

Well, tch, tch and gosh almighty. Heavy metal? Teenybopper? Whoulda thunk it? Outside of Bobby Sherman, of course— his new LP, Hey, Little Woman, Please Scream In Hell should be out any day now. When you think about it, though, this does pretty much explain the amazing New Wave Of Metal everybody here at CREEM keeps writing about.

May 2, 1984
J. KORDOSH

METAL GODS WHO BEAT THE ODDS

"I want to have a great time too, but there's a time when work is work." —Kevin DuBrow

J. KORDOSH

PART ONE America Vs. England

I think the funny thing about what we've done is that—totally unintentionally—we've crossed over. I think that we've probably become the first teenybopper heavy metal group in history. This might alienate some people, but it's not meant to.

—Kevin DuBrow in a private conversation, late 1983

Well, tch, tch and gosh almighty. Heavy metal? Teenybopper? Whoulda thunk it? Outside of Bobby Sherman, of course— his new LP, Hey, Little Woman, Please Scream In Hell should be out any day now.

When you think about it, though, this does pretty much explain the amazing New Wave Of Metal everybody here at CREEM keeps writing about. I actually thought the whole thing was one of Rick "It's" Johnson's last-minute ideas to justify anybody letting him near a typewriter. But now it's clear that there's actually some substance to the New Wave Of Metal

"Artistes, my ass! Get out there and rock and DuBrow proposition. And I'm glad I found out...what the hell, it's only my fourth story on the subject.

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