I’m thinking they just followed Halford. I don’t think there were many true metal bands before them.
That sounds plausible. Pretty funny if Halford was influencing all these tough metal dudes to supposedly look tough because he was into the look for lifestyle reasons.
Then all the hair metal bands blew up, and they actually looked swishy with poofed hair, make up and gauzy scarves but probably got way more girls than every one wearing studs and leather, which was actually fruity too but just in a different way.
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