Classic Albums - Judas Priest: British Steel
This installment of the Classic Albums series, in which rock stars talk  about the creation of their albums, focuses on the making ofBritish Steel, the 1980 album  by Judas Priest, a working-class British, heavy-metal band led by screechy lead  singer Rob Halford. As Halford (who has since left the band) and his mates  explain what went into the lyrics and recording of the songs that made up the  record, the talking heads are intercut with performance footage of a band that  helped launch the metal and speed-metal surge of the 1980s and early 1990s. The  interviews are not particularly insightful if you're not a fan and are probably  redundant if you are; it's fascinating, however, to watch the way the band's  studded-leather image evolved over the years.--Marshall Fine