Born 25 August 1951, in Sutton Coldfield, Rob’ Halford lived his early youth in Kelvin Road on the Beechdale Estate, Bloxwich. ” We’d walk past these metal foundries and see the molten metal coming out of the big vats. We were literally breathing in the fumes from these metal works, breathing in metal before heavy metal had even been invented.” He went on to form heavy metal band Judas Priest.