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(Credits: Far Out \/ Metallica)<\/p>\n
Sun 19 October 2025 5:30, UK <\/p>\n
At the heart of every musician, no matter how big or small, there is a fan \u2013 or at least, there should be. <\/p>\n
What do people get into making music for if it isn\u2019t the love for it? Everything comes back to that, meaning that for the most part, all music makers are big music fans and can descend into nothing but that at a moment\u2019s notice, like when Metallica<\/a> met one of their heroes.<\/p>\n There\u2019s something so heartwarming about this. There are countless stories of moments when huge, looming, global icons have become nothing more than excited kids in the presence of a hero. Ozzy Osbourne could barely utter a single word in the presence of Paul McCartney, claiming meeting him was \u201clike meeting Jesus Christ\u201d and calling the encounter genuinely one of the highlights of his whole life. Or even Taylor Swift looked like she was going to cry when Carole King, who she called \u201cthe greatest songwriter of all time\u201d, turned to her and claimed she was the artist carrying on the torch.<\/a><\/p>\n People love to say you should never meet your idols, but when it goes right, it goes really right, creating moments that people never forget and never get over \u2013 like this one.<\/p>\n Like all good rock musicians, Metallica were inspired by David Bowie. It\u2019s surely impossible not to be as the impact of Bowie, and his broad influence across all corners of rock, touched all sub-genres, including Metallica\u2019s heavier world.\u00a0<\/p>\n They wore that influence on their sleeve as the band repeatedly referenced Bowie moments<\/a>. Their track \u2018Lepper Messiah\u2019 is plucked from \u2018Ziggy Stardust\u2019 lyrics as Bowie wailed, \u201cZiggy sucked up into his mind \/ Like some leper messiah.\u201d Or on their song \u2018Master of Puppets\u2019, they nod to Bowie\u2019s track \u2018Andy Warhol\u2019 during a riff.<\/p>\n So when they randomly met their idol, saying they were starstruck is an understatement.<\/p>\n The way it happened sounds like something from a movie. Stranded in Kansas City, the band\u2019s ride hadn\u2019t turned up for some reason when suddenly a tour bus pulled in. \u201cStops, door opens up, and David Bowie\u2019s head comes up and goes, \u2018What are you guys doing? You want a ride to the hotel?\u2019\u201d Kirk Hammett recalled of the insane encounter as it turned out that Bowie was in the city and staying at the same place.<\/p>\n \u201cWe sit down and there he is, just like, \u2018Hey!\u2019, baseball cap on. So funny, so personable and so goofy,\u201d he continues, and that\u2019s when it all spilt out as the Metallica boys became nothing but fans.<\/p>\n \u201cRob [Trujillo, Metallica bassist] and I sat down, once again the fan boy stuff came out, and I cannot remember all the details but we did talk about stuff like music and his love for the Dandy Warhols,\u201d Hammett said as if he\u2019s still buzzing about it, adding, \u201cI felt like one of those guys in Wayne\u2019s World.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n But then a realisation hit \u2013 what if Bowie was annoyed at them for copying those lyrics for a title? \u201cI also remember apologizing to him, saying, \u2018Sorry David for nicking the title \u2018Leper Messiah\u2019\u201d, he said, but the personable idol didn\u2019t mind in the slightest.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Metallica) Sun 19 October 2025 5:30, UK At the heart of every musician, no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[46067,88,19854,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-235977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-david-bowie","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-metallica","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}