BLACK STAR RIDERS (DAMON JOHNSON) Interview March 2017

Black Star Riders and Mick Burgess 2017 — Black Star Riders and Mick Burgess

The new album by Black Star Riders, Heavy Fire, has won Album of the Year on Total Rock, not bad going bearing in mind it’s only March. With the band on a sell out UK tour and a Top 10 album in the bag, things are looking rosy for the band. Mick Burgess caught up with their enthusiastic lead guitarist, Damon Johnson to talk about the new album, the tour and the legacy of Thin Lizzy.

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Mick Burgess
Mick is a reviewer and photographer here at Metal Express Radio, based in the North-East of England. He first fell in love with music after hearing Jeff Wayne's spectacular The War of the Worlds in the cold winter of 1978. Then in the summer of '79 he discovered a copy of Kiss Alive II amongst his sister’s record collection, which literally blew him away! He then quickly found Van Halen I and Rainbow's Down To Earth, and he was well on the way to being rescued from Top 40 radio hell! Over the ensuing years, he's enjoyed the Classic Rock music of Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, and Deep Purple; the AOR of Journey and Foreigner; the Pomp of Styx and Kansas; the Progressive Metal of Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, and Symphony X; the Goth Metal of Nightwish, Within Temptation, and Epica, and a whole host of other great bands that are too numerous to mention. When he's not listening to music, he watches Sunderland lose more football (soccer) matches than they win, and occasionally, if he has to, he goes to work as a property lawyer.
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