I never saw that until years later but it hit home how true it was. A cable television rockumentary with teens outside a Judas Priest concert in 1986 in Maryland showed how discarded these youngsters were.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBryTebK2Og
Among the more twisted points, at 2:35 the interviewer has a few questions for a twenty-year-old and his thirteen-year-old girlfriend.
At about 9:51, you can see some young adults disconnected from the reality that one of their friends recently died.
Interviewer (off camera): "What would you say if you met Rob Halford?" [the lead singer of Judas Priest]
Young woman and her friend: "Ooh, we're going to. We got backstage passes!"
Interviewer (off camera): "How'd you get the backstage passes?"
Young woman and her friend: "It's a long story. It's a real long story."
Young woman: "Okay, a friend of ours got killed in a car accident about a month ago and he loves Judas Priest. So, his mom wrote to the manager and there's about 75 of us here and they were writing back and calling and they gave us all backstage passes."
Interviewer (off camera): "That's pretty nice."
Young woman and her friend: "Yeah, it is pretty nice."
Young woman: "You'll see us. We got a really big banner. It says Timmy loves Judas Priest."
I wonder how many of those JP fans knew about Rob Halford at the time?
They did a follow-up of some of the folks from the Heavy Metal Parking Lot video about 10 years ago, I think it’s still on YT somewhere.