{"id":3260,"date":"2013-09-09T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2017-10-09T14:05:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T13:05:13","slug":"herefordshire-heaviest-grandfather-finally-takes-stairway-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/2013\/09\/herefordshire-heaviest-grandfather-finally-takes-stairway-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Herefordshire Heaviest Grandfather Finally Takes Stairway To Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Anyone who\u2019s really into heavy metal can tell you that the clich\u00e9s about the music\u2019s fans all being loudmouthed, leather-clad adolescents isn\u2019t true now, if it ever was. Few illustrated that better than Owen Brown, an octogenarian flat-cap wearing, soft-spoken farm labourer from the quaint English village of Weobley, who became internationally known as \u2018the world\u2019s oldest heavy metal fan\u2019. He started on Elvis, but quickly graduated to harder stuff, like Cream, then metal legends such as Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. When Owen was buried last week, it was to the frenzied strains of \u2018Skin o\u2019 My Teeth\u2019 by US thrashers Megadeth. Megadeth responded to the sad news of Owen\u2019s death with a tribute that described the Herefordshire granddad as their \u201coldest and most cherished fan\u201d.<\/p>\n

Not everybody appreciated Owen\u2019s taste in music, and he was often exiled to the shed at the bottom of the garden, where, in a pair of slippers and nursing a cup of tea, he could enjoy the kind of hard, fast, thunderous sounds he enjoyed. \u201cIt\u2019s great because I can play it as loud as I want in there,\u201d the hard rocking OAP once observed philosophically. \u201cI can sit back with a drink and listen to Megadeth with no worries in the world. When all the kids were at home they would often ask me to stop playing it or turn it down but it\u2019s only worth listening to at full blast.\u201d We\u2019re great believers in growing old disgracefully here at Alchemy, and we\u2019d like to join the rock hordes in throwing the horns in salute to Owen Brown, a true metal veteran!<\/p>\n

The Alchemy Editorial Team
\nwww.AlchemyEngland.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone who\u2019s really into heavy metal can tell you that the clich\u00e9s about the music\u2019s fans all being loudmouthed, leather-clad adolescents isn\u2019t true now, if it ever was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[416,415],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-heavy-metal-grandad","tag-megadeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8515,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchemyengland.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}