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which covered the NWOBHM helped to create the sense that an actual movement was taking place, and in a sense helped to create one in the process. Barton recalls: "The phrase New Wave of British Heavy Metal was this slightly tongue-in-cheek thing...I didn't really feel that any of these bands were
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particularly linked in a musical way, but it was interesting that so many of them should then be emerging at more or less the same time." He currently works for
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Mick Wall, Run to the Hills: Iron Maiden, the Authorised Biography (London: Sanctuary, 2000), 88. See also Steve Waksman,
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This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk
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This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk
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at the age of 19 after completing a journalism course at the
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