Bullets
My friend Mikey is not one of God’s original angels; he’s a hyperactive rocker who knows about rock stars before the press does. A new metal band comes around and they say, “We’re some band. ’Spose to be good for you.” So I say, “Let’s get Mikey to try you.
Bullets
KING
DIAMOND: LET'S GET MIKEY TO TRY HIM
by Anne Leighton and Michael Walden
My friend Mikey is not one of God’s original angels; he’s a hyperactive rocker who knows about rock stars before the press does. A new metal band comes around and they say, “We’re some band. ’Spose to be good for you.”
So I say, “Let’s get Mikey to try you. He hates everything.”
So Mikey tries this King Diamond and he likes it. He likes it. Hey Mikey. “I met King Diamond,” Mikey tells me. “And he growled at me.”
King Diamond was born in and lives in the land of mermaids—Denmark. He got into rock by hearing Black Sabbath. Alice Cooper was his favorite performer. It was right after a 1975 Alice Cooper show that King Diamond picked up a guitar. Soon he joined one band and was taught to use the entire range of his voice from a low growl to the most painful falsetto. Then he started Mercyful Fate, which captured cult followings of Mikeys all over the world.