[DoodleBob]

This should be good.

[linedrive]

I don’t know much about how it all started; but if Ian Paice said that - good enough for me.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I love listening to The Who. Heavy metal band, definitely not. The Who was an excellent rock and roll back with quite a few hit songs. I put them with The Birds, The Kinks, etc.

But Heavy Metal? I’ll leave that to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and a few others.

[Beowulf9]

Far Out magazine says it was a group called Blue Cheer.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/who-was-the-first-heavy-metal-band/