Judas Priest’s heavy metal air-raid siren lived a lie before grasping the nettle of his sexuality. Now his honesty and passion drive him and his band onwards towards their eighth decade. “I still love my metal,” insists Rob Halford.

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The frontman talks Velcro, girlfriend-swapping and being called the ‘deathcore Slipknot’

The band’s original 80s singer returns with a new line-up and the same drive and ambition.

Don’t have a plan. Don’t be cocky. Doing drugs is dumb. He knows what it’s like to be poor. He’ll know when it’s time to quit – and will. These things and more shape his world view.

Singer/guitarist Marcus King