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The fifth sudio album by Priest was released on October 9th 1978 as Killing Machine, one of my fav JP albums, I owned one of the early European version, the German one, years later in London I found an UK version with deep red vinyl, here the tracklist :
Side A
Delivering the Goods
Rock Forever
Evening Star
Hell Bent for Leather
Taken on the World
Side B
Burnin' Up
Killing Machine
Running Wild
Before the Dawn
Evil Fantasies
In March 1979, CBS decided to rename the album as Hell Bent for Leather following the January 29th "Grover Cleveland" Elementary School shooting in San Diego where a teen girl, Brenda Spencer killed 2 men and 8 children. A journalist asked Brenda about the carnage and miss Spencer began the interview with "I don't like Mondays", later the title for Boomtown Rats hit.
Hell Bent for Leather brought also an extra song, well famous Fleetwood Mac cover "The Green Manalishi (with the Two-Pronged Crown)" by guitar genious Peter Green.
Even today the JP live setlist provides Running Wild, HBFL and The Green Manalishi.
About the producer, James Guthrie, a recording engineer who started with Alvin Stardust records and arrived, after Killing machine, at Pink Floyd's court...don't worry...sound wizard Tom Allom is behind the corner.
