Suzie Smiled: The New Wave of British Heavy Metal
by John Tucker

This book tells the definitive and complete history of the NWOBHM, from its formation during the late Seventies, through its numerous peaks and troughs in the Eighties and on to its current status as one of rock music's most influential genres. The most famous exponents of this New Wave are stadium-selling acts such as Motorhead, Def Leppard and the currently-enormous-again Iron Maiden, but there are also scores of other acts who have been selling millions of records to the movement's enormous and fanatical fan base for years. Suzie Smiled... describes, in those bands' own words, what it was like to be writing and playing heavy metal in the post-punk era and sets the music in the bleak social context of the time.
Through a mixture of exclusive new interviews, contemporary articles and many unpublished photographs. Suzie Smiled... lets the musicians tell the entire story in their own words, including how some of the greatest heavy metal songs ever written were created.
 

ISBN 0 9549704 7 0 - 256 pages - Paperback - 20pp b/w pics - £9.99
Independent Music Press