Katy St. Clair’s Reviews > Confess: The Autobiography > Status Update

Laugh out loud in parts but I feel sadness when I read how hard he had to hide his gayness, not just for him but he kept quiet mostly for his band; to find out this macho metal band was led by a "puffter" would ruin things for everyone. Funny though is that once he could come out, everyone assumed the leather and studs stuff was his fetish. Nope. "I'm vanilla," he writes!

I'm a sucker for any musician's autobio, but make them closeted gay and at the forefront of heavy metal, and Katy bar the door. One thing that perplexes me so far is that he just sort of joins Judas Priest and starts referring to them as heavy metal... I expected a bit more about being obsessed with heavy, or taking Sabbath further, or anything other than being into Zeppelin. We shall see.