Wheels Of Steel: The Explosive Early Years of NWOBHM

by Martin Popoff

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The year was 1979, and a brash new breed of heavy metal-maker was busy shovelling dirt over the death of punk, while simultaneously mourning the waning energies - or outright demises - of hard rock's earlier heroes, namely Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Uriah Heep.
In Wheels of Steel: The Explosive Early Years of the NWOBHM, Martin Popoff charts the long ramp-up to this detonation of headbanging mania through the late `70s, arriving at the penultimate first years of this flash phenomenon - namely 1979 and 1980.
Utilising his celebrated oral history method - rich with detailed...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781912782185
  • Publish Date 12 July 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Wymer Publishing
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 240
  • Language English