Birth School Metallica Death - Vol I (49 page)

Portraits of the artists as young men James Hetfield

Lars Ulrich

Cliff Burton

Kirk Hammett.

Early LA gig fliers: note the mention of the non-existent ‘Metallica EP’, the recordings for which surfaced on the
No Life ’Til Leather
cassette.

Metal Blade CEO Brian Slagel’s copy of the
No Life ’Til Leather
demo, with handwritten track titles and notes by Lars Ulrich.

The back cover of the
Metal Massacre
album, Metallica’s first vinyl outing. Spot the unfortunate spelling errors …

Dave Mustaine backstage at The Stone, San Francisco, March 5, 1983, the night of Cliff Burton’s first gig with Metallica.

James Hetfield photographed at 13004 Curtis and King Road, the home he shared with Ron McGovney in Norwalk, California.

The Young Metal Attack: Metallica backstage at The Stone, March 19, 1983.

Cliff Burton onstage at the Marquee club, London, March 27, 1984.

Alcoholica: Drunk and disorderly in Paris, August 29, 1984.

Award winners: receiving silver discs marking 60,000 sales of
Ride the Lightning
, backstage at the Lyceum, London, December 20, 1984.

Cliff Burton, sound checking in Stockholm, December 12, 1984.