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Rob Halford Biography

Robert John Arthur Halford (born 25 August 1951) is an English singer and songwriter, who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest and famed for his powerful wide-ranging voice. AllMusic says of Halford: "There have been few vocalists in the history of heavy metal whose singing style has been as influential and instantly recognizable", possessing a voice which is "able to effortlessly alternate between a throaty growl and an ear-splitting falsetto". Halford was voted number 33 in the greatest voices in rock by Planet Rock listeners in 2009.

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The last thing we wanted was a copycat. When we saw [Richie Faulkner] play, we thought, "We don't have to tell this guy anything. He's got it. "

Copycat, Copycats, Faulkner, Guy, Play, Tell

You really have to try and find a way to communicate [in the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp], to respect each other's opinions and ideas, to be able to fight for something you feel is better than somebody else's idea.

Camp, Communicate, Fighting, Rock, Rock And Roll, Rocks

All songs have a message whether it's I love you, do you love me or this government sucks in a basic format and then you expand upon your beliefs and your thinking process about what's going on around you in the world.

Love, Love You, Song, Songs, Thinking, World

The only advice we gave Richie Faulkner was we wanted Richie to be his own guy. You have to let your musicians in your band be who they are.

Advice, Gave, Guy, Musician, Musicians

That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.

Grows, Life, Old, Play, Records, Writing

Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper

Audio, Brilliant, Expert, Experts, Marine

You gotta have fun. Even now we have fun onstage.

Fun, Gotta, Having Fun, Onstage

For us Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp is bigger than the music. It is very much an experience that brings a lot of skills and discoveries about yourself together. In that respect, it also enables you to learn that being in a band is a lot tougher than sitting around and playing guitar in your bedroom.

Rocks, Guitar, Discovery, Enables, Together, Playing

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

Lose, Loses, Perspective, Where You Are

I played the track 'Exciter' backwards and suggested to the judge that what he'd heard was, 'I asked her for a peppermint. I asked her to get me one'. When the judge heard it, his eyes lit up. It was as if he realized how ridiculous the whole thing was.

Asked, Eye, Heard, Judging, Peppermint, Track

I'll always have a totally open mind to endless possibilities. I want to do a dance album. Not Techno, but a record that's exclusively designed for people to dance to. That whole dance genre is kinda into its own world. I'd just like to get in there and mess around with that.

Dance, Genre Is, Like, Mind, People, Totally

I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more important than being addicted.

Addicted, Important, Love, Love Is, Making, People

We are looking at these rock 'n' roll campers, and we know what is going on in their minds because we've been there.

Campers, Mind, Rock, Rock N Roll, Rocks, Roll

Richie Faulkner is very respectful to the songs that he plays from when [founding member] K. K. [Downing] was in the band. He plays them incredibly. And he's got his own nuances and his own techniques that he puts in - as he should.

Founding, Member, Play, Richie, Song, Technique

It's a joy to actually be able to control your own music.

Able, Actually, Control, Joy, Music

We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combination of some weird guitar sounds, and the way I exhaled between lyrics. I had to sing 'Better by You, Better Than Me' in court, a cappella. I think that was when the judge thought, 'What am I doing here? No band goes out of its way to kill its fans'.

Guitar, Ideas, Lyrics, Reno, Thinking, Weird

All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy metal band. I saw them on their first ever tour, at Birmingham Town Hall. They just blew me away.

Band, Ipods, Metal, Queens, Single, Song

I would love to be in the Hall Of Fame.

Fame, Hall, Hall Of Fame, Halls, Love