At the age of 10, cherub-faced Seb Hunter wanted one thing for Christmas: heavy-metal band AC/DC's latest album, featuring the raunchy single "Let's Get It Up." Six years later he dropped out of his ...

When it comes to heavy metal, there are two kinds of people. There are those of us who were lured upon hearing our first power chord, hooked by galloping double-bass drums and reeled in by endless ...

Oh no, you think. Not another wisecracking (and lucrative) trudging-round-with-a-fridge foray into an alien world. You'd be wrong. Rock musician Seb Hunter's first book, Hell Bent for Leather, was ...

If Seb Hunter could teach his fellow metal heads to love Handel, that would be some achievement. Still, he has done well to write a book that is rather funny about classical music, in parts, depending ...

Seb Hunter decides – because he thinks he can get a funny book out of it, one suspects – to devote himself to charitable works for two years. He becomes a volunteer at the Kensington branch of the ...

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1. All members must have long hair. Obviously. Good: Iron Maiden (Dickinson era #1). Even better, with moustaches: Black Sabbath (drug-droopy). Bad: Queen post 1980, Iron Maiden (Dickinson era #2).

Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor Rooks (Cutting School), chair of Africana Studies at Brown University, meditates in this probing study on the “talismanic” significance ...