Tracking the Def Leppard
Can you guess which of these were actual New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands, and which are fake?
Bashful Alley, Handsome Beasts, Heavy Pettin', Witchfinder General, Pet Hate, Thin End of the Wedge, Agony Bag, Dumpy's Rusty Nuts, Truffle, Ethyl the Frog, Cloven Hoof, Ezy Meat, and Smokin' Roadie.
(Answer: They're all real.)
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal — NWOBHM, as it's affectionately known by those fine people of Long Acronyms for the Musically Esoteric (LAME) — was a movement afoot in the mid-to-late '70s after Deep Purple began to lose its luster, and drunken, lower-class laddies from industrial towns like Sheffield and Birmingham began rooting around for something heavier.