Saxon
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Saxon: Saxon (Carrere CAL 110)
Review by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 11 August 1979
Sheezabigteaza! (And other lyrics of note) ...
Big Teasers From Barnsley: Saxon
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 18 August 1979
HERE'S A challenge to sort the men from the boys. From new "grassroots English heavy metal band" Saxon to the latest American skullcrushers to go ...
Motorhead, Saxon: City Hall, Newcastle
Review by Ian Ravendale, Sounds, 24 November 1979
Beyond the wall of sound ...
Report and Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 24 May 1980
...AND WATCH THE SEASIDE PIER SHAKING. GEOFF BARTON REPORTS AS SAXON STORM THE DISNEYLAND SHOWBAR, COLWYN BAY (YES, REALLY). ...
Report by Mary Harron, The Guardian, 19 July 1980
Mary Harron takes a trip to Sheffield and discovers a surprising rock revival. ...
Monsters Of Rock (Polydor PD-1-6311); Motorhead: Ace of Spades (Mercury SRM-1-4011)
Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, February 1981
HEAVY METAL at its stalest has few rivals in the all-time tedium stakes. Monsters of Rock, recorded live at Castle Donington in Britain, is not ...
Interview by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 26 June 1982
From the pits of Yorkshire to the industrial might of Seattle, SAXON have taken tea to the world. Colin Irwin earnestly believes it's the new ...
Motorhead, Saxon: Hackney Stadium, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Kerrang!, 12 August 1982
"I DON'T know if it's possible, but there is a fellow over here who wants it turned up." Lemmy has a great sense of humour. ...
Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 8 August 1985
HOWARD JOHNSON travels to Spain to get the loudness lowdown on SAXON's plans to recapture the spirit of their Wheels Of Steel heyday ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, 7 September 1985
SATAN IN a shitlake, I'm here on serious medical business and I've left the pliers on the anvil at home after cuffing the slave-girls. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Howard Johnson, Kerrang!, 1 September 1990
For those off us old enough to remember, the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal was the start off the greatest period ever for Metal ...
Overview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 19 January 1991
Bring your good taste to be slaughtered! To mark Iron Maiden's ground-breaking success (any bleedin' excuse — Ed), STUART MACONIE investigates the subtle and many-faceted ...
NWOBHM: Never Mind The Bollocks
Retrospective by Paul Elliott, MOJO, February 2007
Threatened by punk, Led Zep, Sabbath and Purple came under fire in 1977. A year later Iron Maiden, Def Leppard and Saxon led a New ...
Interview by Pete Makowski, unpublished, May 2012
This is a previously unpublished Q&A with Biff Byford, Saxon's enduring, uncompromising and down-to-earth frontman as he contemplates, amongst other things, the prospects of getting ...
"We'll retire at 106. What else can we do?" The rockers who won't call it a day
Report and Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 18 August 2015
From Suzi Quatro to Saxon's Biff Byford, rock's pioneers have been making music for more than 40 years. Here they talk about leather jumpsuits, performing ...
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, Financial Times, 15 February 2022
AS INELEGANT acronyms go, NWOBHM was at least onomatopoeic: an approximation of metal's thudding, bludgeoning bass registers. Certainly the "New Wave Of British Heavy Metal", ...
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