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Spoof metal band Bad News posing for a photograph in the 1980s

The wild story of the spoof heavy metal band who beat Spinal Tap by a year

By Chris Chantler published

Spinal Tap weren’t the first spoof heavy metal band

Interviews
Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson and Peter Richardson in The Comic Strip Presents... episode 'Bad News Tour', circa 1983

"The camera pans across, and you realise there are 60,000 people throwing bottles of piss at us. It was terrifying": Nigel Planer looks back at hapless metal heroes Bad News

By Rich Davenport published

Nearly 40 years after their infamous Donington set, 25% of fictional rockers Bad News returned last year as Almost Bad News

Interviews
King Diamond's No Presents For Christmas EP

The 10 best metal Christmas songs ever

By Chris Chantler published

From Rob Halford and Korn to Ronnie James Dio and Nightwish, this is all the proof you need that Christmas can rock

Tracks & Singles
Bad News appear on the BBC show Wogan in 1987

Watch Bad News cause mayhem on a British chat show in 1987

By Simon Young published

See the late Terry Wogan effortlessly deal with a pyro accident, petty squabbling and a near punch-up on his iconic chat show

Concerts & Shows