FRANK SKINNER

The British comedian talks Judas Priest, growing up in Birmingham, and how he may have inadvertently inspired The Osbournes

RICH HOBSON

Word has it you’ve become a born-again metalhead? “Well, my son, who’s now 12, about three years ago heard Poison by Alice Cooper on the radio. It was an epiphany and he got into Alice big time. When your kid is showing a passion like that, you want to indulge it. So I took him to see Alice at The O2. When you’re with someone who’s just discovering live music for the first time, it’s incredible. After that we did Kiss and started doing the rounds – Maiden, Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe, Judas Priest… we bathed in it. I remembered why I loved it the first time round.” What’s your own background with metal and rock growing up? “In Birmingham you couldn’t really avoid it! I had one mate…

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Metal Hammer UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024

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