When Halford finally came out in 1998, he did it live on MTV, without apology, during an interview to promote his industrial-tinged side project, 2wo. “What if it got out that I was gay, fans didn’t want anything to do with a band fronted by a queer, and it killed Judas Priest stone dead?” he asked himself, over and over. Unlike his famous peers, Halford was navigating heavy metal’s debaucherous, drug-fueled 1980s heyday and the heights of his own band’s stratospheric popularity as a closeted gay man who was petrified about the potential consequences of revealing his true self. His deliciously readable new memoir, Confess, is a warts-and-all rock’n’roll confessional in league with Led Zeppelin’s Hammer of the Gods or Lemmy Kilmister’s White Line Fever, with a rather big twist. What Do Circus Performers Do Without the Circus?īut, as he approaches his 70th birthday, Halford has decided that it’s time to come clean.
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