35 Years Ago: JUDAS PRIEST release Turbo 35 Years Ago: JUDAS PRIEST release Turbo

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35 Years Ago: JUDAS PRIEST release Turbo

The only agenda we've ever had in Priest was to really give every album its own life and I think we've achieved that on everything from Rocka Rolla up to the new one, Nostradamus. That said, if ever there was a controversial record in terms of what people might have expected from us, it's Turbo. It was the fact that we moved into a different atmosphere, but that's where we were at that particular time. Some of the technological advances like the pedal boards that Glenn and KK used were giving us options for different sounds and experimentation. Personally I think there are still some great tracks on that album ... It's one of the recordings that divide opinion.

Rob Halford / Judas Priest interview, Kerrang!, 2008

JUDAS PRIEST released their tenth studio album, Turbo, on this day in 1986 through Columbia.