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HEAVY: The i-Diot's Guide to Heavy Metal

Kathryn Flett, i-D, March 1986

Here in i-D land it is easy for us to glide gracefully through life with nothing more to worry our fabulously coiffured heads about than Azzedine Alaia's seams, T***O's guest list or freebie holidays in exotic climes (!). It is rare for us to come into contact with the darker, louder, HEAVIER aspect of our cultural and musical heritage — The SATANIC side of style, therefore it was with some trepidation that yours truly attempted to get to grips with such mind-boggling posers as just what is David Coverdale's inside leg measurement? Who trims Dee Snider's split ends and will Metallica take over the world? Here then is an i-Diots guide to...

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