Kerrang

Kerrang! is a British weekly magazine devoted to rock and metal music, currently published by Wasted Talent (the same company that owns electronic music publication Mixmag). It was first published on 6 June 1981 as a one-off supplement in the Sounds newspaper. Named after the onomatopoeic word that derives from the sound made when playing a power chord on a distorted electric guitar, Kerrang! was initially devoted to the new wave of British heavy metal and the rise of hard rock acts. In the early 2000s it became the best-selling British music weekly.
== Links to Peel ==
Peel attended the Kerrang awards in 2000 where he mentioned Britt Ekland breaking her foot there on his 30 August 2000 show:
“And we’ve been looking through all the newspapers, the tabloids in particular, about Britt Ekland, who was at our table actually at the Kerrang awards yesterday, last night, and fell and hurt her foot, break her foot – did she break her foot? And her wrist – broke her foot and her wrist. And she was very game, I have to say, but she would have been, she would have sustained worse injuries if it hadn’t been for our Lynn, who actually caught her as she fell to the floor. It’s true, isn’t it, and there’s no mention of Lynn in the thing at all. She saved Britt Ekland from greater injuries. And she was lying there on the floor and she was very game and we were much impressed, because she tried to get up and have another go, but she was obviously in great pain and just flopped back down onto the floor. And I was thinking about going and picking her up and carrying her onto the stage, but then I thought was I capable of carrying her. She’s not a big woman, but was I capable of carrying her up the steps? I thought my children didn’t deserve to see newspaper headlines that said something like, when I dropped dead, you know, newspaper headlines saying, ‘Veteran DJ Dies Underneath Britt Ekland.’ I thought they deserved more than that, and somebody else came and carried her up onto the stage anyway. But it was a heroic performance I felt and she went up in our estimation enormously, didn’t she? … She said also that she listened to the programme. I was tempted to say, ‘Name one record that I’ve played in the past ten years,’ but in case she’s listening tonight in her hospital bed, here’s a record for you, Britt.”
In 2004 Kerrang paid tribute to Peel after his death in their November edition of that year.
== External Links ==
* Wikipedia
* Official Website
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