Quiet Riot led the charge for the popularization of metal music in the 80s with a landmark album of rebellion called Metal Health. Yet the sharp-tongued comments to the public by their outspoken frontman Kevin DuBrow, the jealousy of their peers, and altercations with fans, made them the most vilified band in rock. DuBrow had a self-proclaimed alligator mouth, and his reckless audacity ultimately led to him being sacked from the group that he co-founded. The story of the iconic, metal anthem Bang Your Head (Metal Health) and Cum one Feel the noize that took Quiet Riot to #1 on the pop charts in one of the most competitive times chart history, and was once sung in front of more than 300,000 people is NEXT on Professor of Rock.

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In 1968, an emerging band named Led Zeppelin was performing at the Boston Tea Party during their first US tour. The front rows of the audience were so captivated by the band's sonic power that they were literally banging their heads on the stage in time with the music. It was an incredible sight to behold. The only way to describe it was exactly what it was, and thus the term "headbanger" was forever etched into rock 'n' roll vernacular.

15 years later, in 1983, the phrase "bang your head" became a battle cry, screamed to a new generation of rock fans by a band that, just a year earlier, had been playing in a club where more people were playing pool than watching them on stage. When Kevin DuBrow, lead singer of Quiet Riot, belted out "Bang your head... “Metal health will drive you mad" at the US (us) Festival in Southern California, over 300,000 people ERUPTED with headbanger fever… If you haven’t figure it out yet, today’s story is about the first Heavy Metal album to hit #1 on the album charts…Quiet Riot and their classic title track Bang Your Head)…The album Also included CUm on Feel the Noise. Quiet Riot was one of the most popular bands on the Hollywood music scene in the late 70s, a scene that was extremely competitive. Quiet Riot had an intense rivalry with one of the other bands, a quartet based in Pasadena, California, named Van Halen.

There were many similarities between Quiet Riot and Van Halen, starting with the respective frontmen. Quiet Riot lead vocalist, Kevin DuBrow was just as cocky & brash as Van Halen’s David Lee Roth, and Randy Rhoads, the lead guitarist for Quiet Riot was constantly compared to the whiz kid namesake.. Eddie Van Halen. Both bands were snubbed by the record industry…For years neither had a deal. Although Van Halen was signed before them, landing a deal with Warner Brothers, Quiet Riot actually put out an album before Van Halen, but it was only released in Japan Randy Rhoads, Quiet Riot’s hot young guitarist, left to be the lead axeman for Ozzy Osbourne’s band, and a new crop of acts with more momentum began to take over the scene.