{"id":6198,"date":"2020-08-16T18:33:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T18:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/?p=6198"},"modified":"2020-09-13T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T18:44:40","slug":"monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsters Of Rock 40th Anniversary: Donington Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the history books of rock 1980 is a pivotal time, it was the crowning year for <strong>New Wave Of British Heavy Metal<\/strong>. Many classic records were unleashed during that period of time. It was also the birth of <strong>Monsters Of Rock,<\/strong> the biggest heavy metal festival in the world. <strong>Judas Priest<\/strong> played first Monsters Of Rock 40 years ago, 16.8.1980 along with <strong>Rainbow<\/strong> and <strong>Saxon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read Steel Mill&#8217;s article on the birth of the legend, with <strong>K.K.<\/strong>&#8216;s recollections of the event included:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/Other%20Special%20Reports\/donington-special\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/Other%20Special%20Reports\/donington-special\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the history books of rock 1980 is a pivotal time, it was the crowning year for New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. Many classic records were unleashed during that period of time. It was also the birth of Monsters Of Rock, the biggest heavy metal festival in the world. Judas Priest played first Monsters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Monsters Of Rock 40th Anniversary: Donington Special","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,47,59,513,277,40,526,42],"class_list":["post-6198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-steel-mill-news","tag-anniversary","tag-donington","tag-heavy-metal","tag-judas-priest","tag-k-k-downing","tag-kk-downing","tag-monsters-of-rock","tag-steel-mill"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Monsters Of Rock 40th Anniversary: Donington Special - K.K. Downing\u00b4s Steel Mill<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Monsters Of Rock 16.8.1980: Donington Special, 40th Anniversary article by Steel Mill.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monsters Of Rock 40th Anniversary: Donington Special - K.K. Downing\u00b4s Steel Mill\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Monsters Of Rock 16.8.1980: Donington Special, 40th Anniversary article by Steel Mill.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"K.K. Downing\u00b4s Steel Mill\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kkdowningsteelmill\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-16T18:33:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-09-13T18:44:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201012311528129234.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"331\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ville Krannila\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ville Krannila\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ville Krannila\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/299e5700c5f773a01284666212b0340a\"},\"headline\":\"Monsters Of Rock 40th Anniversary: Donington Special\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-16T18:33:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-09-13T18:44:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":97,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/01\\\/201012311528129234.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"anniversary\",\"Donington\",\"heavy metal\",\"judas priest\",\"K.K. Downing\",\"KK Downing\",\"Monsters Of Rock\",\"Steel Mill\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Steel Mill News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\\\/\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\\\/\",\"name\":\"Monsters Of Rock 40th Anniversary: Donington Special - K.K. Downing\u00b4s Steel Mill\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/01\\\/201012311528129234.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-16T18:33:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-09-13T18:44:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/299e5700c5f773a01284666212b0340a\"},\"description\":\"Monsters Of Rock 16.8.1980: Donington Special, 40th Anniversary article by Steel Mill.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/01\\\/201012311528129234.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/01\\\/201012311528129234.jpg\",\"width\":500,\"height\":331,\"caption\":\"Photo: Alan Perry\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Monsters Of Rock 40th Anniversary: Donington Special\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/\",\"name\":\"K.K. Downing\u00b4s Steel Mill\",\"description\":\"K.K. Downing\u00b4s Steel Mill - Website for founding member of Judas Priest\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/299e5700c5f773a01284666212b0340a\",\"name\":\"Ville Krannila\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/665c47c9eb1d83e21d62ccb56fa19b4299a47b90af994416ed5d800a6001994c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/665c47c9eb1d83e21d62ccb56fa19b4299a47b90af994416ed5d800a6001994c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/665c47c9eb1d83e21d62ccb56fa19b4299a47b90af994416ed5d800a6001994c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ville Krannila\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.kkdowning.net\"],\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/kkdowning.net\\\/steelmill\\\/author\\\/ville-krannila\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Monsters Of Rock 40th Anniversary: Donington Special - K.K. Downing\u00b4s Steel Mill","description":"Monsters Of Rock 16.8.1980: Donington Special, 40th Anniversary article by Steel Mill.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Monsters Of Rock 40th Anniversary: Donington Special - K.K. Downing\u00b4s Steel Mill","og_description":"Monsters Of Rock 16.8.1980: Donington Special, 40th Anniversary article by Steel Mill.","og_url":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/","og_site_name":"K.K. Downing\u00b4s Steel Mill","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kkdowningsteelmill","article_published_time":"2020-08-16T18:33:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-09-13T18:44:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":500,"height":331,"url":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201012311528129234.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ville Krannila","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ville Krannila"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/"},"author":{"name":"Ville Krannila","@id":"https:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/#\/schema\/person\/299e5700c5f773a01284666212b0340a"},"headline":"Monsters Of Rock 40th Anniversary: Donington Special","datePublished":"2020-08-16T18:33:33+00:00","dateModified":"2020-09-13T18:44:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/"},"wordCount":97,"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201012311528129234.jpg","keywords":["anniversary","Donington","heavy metal","judas priest","K.K. Downing","KK Downing","Monsters Of Rock","Steel Mill"],"articleSection":["Steel Mill News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/","url":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/","name":"Monsters Of Rock 40th Anniversary: Donington Special - K.K. Downing\u00b4s Steel Mill","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201012311528129234.jpg","datePublished":"2020-08-16T18:33:33+00:00","dateModified":"2020-09-13T18:44:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/#\/schema\/person\/299e5700c5f773a01284666212b0340a"},"description":"Monsters Of Rock 16.8.1980: Donington Special, 40th Anniversary article by Steel Mill.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201012311528129234.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201012311528129234.jpg","width":500,"height":331,"caption":"Photo: Alan Perry"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/monsters-of-rock-40th-anniversary-donington-special\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Monsters Of Rock 40th Anniversary: Donington Special"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/#website","url":"https:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/","name":"K.K. Downing\u00b4s Steel Mill","description":"K.K. Downing\u00b4s Steel Mill - Website for founding member of Judas Priest","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/#\/schema\/person\/299e5700c5f773a01284666212b0340a","name":"Ville Krannila","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/665c47c9eb1d83e21d62ccb56fa19b4299a47b90af994416ed5d800a6001994c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/665c47c9eb1d83e21d62ccb56fa19b4299a47b90af994416ed5d800a6001994c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/665c47c9eb1d83e21d62ccb56fa19b4299a47b90af994416ed5d800a6001994c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ville Krannila"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.kkdowning.net"],"url":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/author\/ville-krannila\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/201012311528129234.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5pXO4-1BY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6219,"href":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions\/6219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kkdowning.net\/steelmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}