Arena HEAVY METAL - Marshmallow Related Injury

About this episode

The episode reviews the BBC's Heavy Metal documentary from 1989 and discusses various related topics in metal music.

As “promised” very early on in the history of this podcast, we've had a look at the BBC Arts programme Arena's Heavy Metal documentary, from April 1989. Mick Wall and Jon Hotten of Kerrang were NOT IMPRESSED with the programme, and neither were any of the people that wrote in about it. Featured are Ozzy and Geezer, Bruce Dickinson going for the presenting gig, Ax Rose at his most Ax Rose, David “LeRoth”, and loads of thrash. It all adds up to not much but to a dopey 17 year old at the time it was a fun watch. BBC4's Heavy Metal Britannia from 2010 was a lot better. In addition we've got complaints about Guns n Roses’ tardiness, Spinal Tap II review, Metal documentaries we have loved and Napalm Death on Craig Charles' What's That Noise,. A note on Heavy Metal Heaven: At the end of ‘89 year the BBC repeated the documentary alongside some related shows- among others they showed The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2, a Def Leppard doc,and live concerts by Ozzy, Metallica, and that black and white Led Zeppelin TV performance from Denmark. This was all under the banner of Heavy Metal Heaven and presented by Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (sample quote “tonight I've got a couple of…

Topics covered

• Heavy Metal
• Documentary Review
• Music History
• BBC Programming
• Guns n Roses
• Metal Culture

Keywords

• Heavy Metal
• BBC
• Kerrang
• Ozzy
• Guns n Roses
• Documentary
• Music History

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC, Kerrang, Guns n Roses, Spinal Tap II, Napalm Death, Craig Charles, Heavy Metal Britannia, Heavy Metal Heaven

Books & works: The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2, Def Leppard doc, Led Zeppelin TV performance from Denmark

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