Origins Of A Briital Legend

November, 2009

LONG BEFORE WORK STARTED ON BRUTAL LEGEND, ITS COMPO­NENTS WERE ACCUMULATING IN TIM SCHAFERS MIND HERE ARE SOME OF ITS KEY CONCEPTUAL POINTS OF INTEREST:O metju. In 1981 Schafer was 15. His older brother caught him listening to Supertramp and. dis­gusted, played him something else. "It was a scary thumping sound followed by this robot voice—the first few seconds of Black Sabbath's 'Iron Man.' It was weird and cool andtemfvjng/'IQ twain In college Schafer read A Connecticut Yankee in King Ar...