Priest were coming off the back of a stellar run of success when they began work on Turbo. While their late-70s and early-80s albums had enshrined them as one of Britain’s pre-eminent metal bands, the ...

British metal legends Judas Priest were near the end of the first ... and the positive reception to their latest work Defenders of the Faith. Additionally, metal was cresting in 1984 and it ...

21. Judas Priest first played there in 1984 with its “Defenders of the Faith” tour and again in 1986 on the “Turbo” tour. As a band that helped birth heavy metal, Halford views part of the ...