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I'm a sucker for any musician's autobio, but make them closeted gay and at the forefront of heavy metal, and Katy bar the door. One thing that perplexes me is that he just sort of joins Judas Priest and starts referring to them as heavy metal... I expected a bit more about being obsessed with heavy, or taking Sabbath further, or anything other than being into Zeppelin. Laugh out loud in parts, but I feel sadness when I read how hard he had to hide his gayness, not just for him but he kept quiet mostly for his band; to find out this macho metal band was led by a "puffter" would ruin things for everyone. That was a lot to shoulder. When he DID make things very obvious in his lyrics, the homophobic heschers didn't even notice one bit! All the better to look like morons, which unfortunately the ones in my town sort of were. Funny though is that once he would come out, everyone assumed the leather and studs stuff was his fetish. Nope. "I'm vanilla," he writes! Other surprises: he's a Queen-loving monarchist, Christian, had a happy childhood, and only dabbled with alcoholism and cocaine addiction briefly. The only time he -broke the law-broke the law- was when he got busted in a men's room because he had a hard time meeting other gay men. I like the guy. E's an a'right bloke, 'e is.