40 years on from his passing, Scott Gorham, Eric Bell, Mark Stanway, Laurence Archer and more talk about the bandmate and friend – the real Phil – that they knew.

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.

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.

I was pretty lost at 16. I left school. I got expelled, actually. I think they were just wanting to get rid of me, really, because I wasn’t very good. I got caught trying to pierce my friend’s ear in

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