DIO: Fan Mag [Metal Hammer]
Mid-May. Early afternoon. There were clouds overhead, scattered and motionless, but it was still hot. The starlings in the rear garden were being dicks, as per usual, shitting on the fence and bullying the smaller birds. The crows sat atop rooftops, deliberating on whether or not the available food was enough to warrant them bullying the starlings, in turn. It wasn't, so they merely watched and waited.
I took refuge indoors and set about the eternal struggle: getting rid of old crap to make way for new crap, specifically books. With courage to the sticking place, I braved the dust and spiders. I unearthed a bunch of Metal music mags from a bygone era. I kept a few things for later perusal (Manowar, King Diamond), but got rid of most of them. Necessity.
The DIO Fan Mag was a pull-out and keep supplement from an issue of monthly UK magazine Metal Hammer that I'd pulled-out and kept. As such, I don't know what issue it was in, but given that the info goes up to Lock Up the Wolves, it must've been around 1990. That's also why page numbers begin at 41 and end at 60. (The 8 missing pages were likely two double-sided posters that lived and died on my wall.)
