Judas Priest singer and self-styled Steel God Rob Halford is contemplating recording an album of Tony Bennet cowl variations.
Halford is a large fan of late jazz and pop crooner Bennett, who handed away in 2023 on the age of 96.
And now, on the age of 73, Halford believes he has earned the precise to make any type of album he looks like making – even when it might be an enormous shift from what followers are used to listening to from him.
He tells UCR: “There’s so many musical issues I wish to do. I used to be singing Tony Bennett within the bathe the opposite day and I listened to my voice and I am going, ‘Do I dare to think about one thing like this?’
“After which I am going, ‘I am an outdated man, I can do what I f***ing need!’ And I really like Tony Bennett. I used to be unhappy, like a whole lot of us had been, when he handed. He was an icon and a beacon.
“I really like every kind of singers. My love for what the voice can do is at all times so enticing to me – the concepts, the creativeness, like Girl Gaga doing her factor in Vegas when she does the jazz facet of stuff.
“So, yeah, I would love to do this. I do not know the way I’d go about it, however I higher get a transfer on if I’ll do one thing like that.”
Halford admits such a transfer would not have been an actual consideration when he was youthful. However he feels that the world could be extra open to it now.
“I would not have dared to have finished this again within the day. Your label stated, ‘No, that is who you might be. Do not deviate!’ Administration stated, ‘No, that is who you might be. Do not deviate!!’
“Now you are able to do no matter you need, no matter the place you are at. I believe we’re in a stupendous time the place there’s acceptance of music and understanding the enjoyment of music, with out boundaries. It is fantastic.”
In an analogous transfer, Creed and Alter Bridge guitarist Mark Tremonti has had success with his covers of Frank Sinatra’s work.
