Founding SAXON Member GRAHAM OLIVER Discusses Upcoming Book
April 4, 2009Founding SAXON members Graham Oliver and Steve Dawson are putting the finishing touches on a book entitled "Saxon Drugs And Rock And Roll", due out before the end of the year. The book will chronicle life on the road with SAXON from their New Wave of British Heavy Metal roots to their acrimonious split, during which Graham and Steve parted company with original SAXON singer Biff Byford.
"It promises to be a who's who of the metal scene of the late '70s/early 80s," Graham told SouthYorkshireTimes.co.uk. "It will be out at the end of this year. It's taking a lot of writing and getting quotes off people — like Lemmy from MOTÖRHEAD and Ozzy Osbourne.
"My biggest memory of the Hollywood gig we played with METALLICA was that Ozzy Osbourne was in our dressing room. It was just after his 'Blizzard of Ozz' guitarist Randy Rhoads had died and he was inconsolable. We were trying to give him some support, but you just felt helpless and we had to psych ourselves up to go onstage for what was one of our biggest U.S. gigs at the time. I remember spending all night in our dressing room with Ozzy and Sharon when he supported SAXON on one of our European tours and Randy borrowed my Gibson Flying V guitar for his performance. We had jammed together for hours earlier playing Jimi Hendrix stuff. I'll never part with that guitar."
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