{"id":2333,"date":"2012-11-20T06:04:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T06:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/11\/20\/black-sabbath-voted-most-important-british-hard-rock-act\/"},"modified":"2012-11-20T06:04:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T06:04:33","slug":"black-sabbath-voted-most-important-british-hard-rock-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/11\/20\/black-sabbath-voted-most-important-british-hard-rock-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sabbath voted most important British hard rock act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.rollingstone.com\/assets\/images\/artists\/304x304\/black-sabbath.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"157\" height=\"157\" \/><br \/>Black Sabbath have been crowned the most important British hard rock act of all time in a poll carried out by the BPI of more than 3,600 hard rock\/metal fans.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The Birmingham-born heavy metalers bagged almost half of the votes (45%). Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin came in second &#8211; each taking one fifth of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy five percent of the polled music fans voted Britain as the home of Metal, with two thirds (67.3%) praising Britain as a \u201cworld force\u201d in the genre. <\/p>\n<p>Three out of four fans believe that Britain is still producing great artists, with Sheffield\u2019s While She Sleeps the act most hotly tipped for future success.<\/p>\n<p>The survey \u2013 carried out partly in conjunction with Kerrang! and Metal Hammer \u2013 found that 40% of heavy music fans discovered it before their teenage years.<\/p>\n<p>Metallica\u2019s self-titled 1991 album was voted the album metal fans would recommend as the ideal introduction to the genre.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Sabbath have been crowned the most important British hard rock act of all time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}