This book tells the definitive and complete history of the NWOBHM, from its formation during the late 1970s, through its numerous peaks and troughs in the 1980s and on to its current status as one of rock music’s most influential genres.

The most famous exponents of this New Wave are stadium-selling acts such as Motörhead, Def Leppard and the currently-enormous-again Iron Maiden, but there are also scores of other acts who have been selling millions of records to the movement’s enormous fan-base for years.
Suzie Smiled … describes what it was like to be writing and playing heavy metal in the post-punk era and sets the music in the bleak social context of the time. This book is the first ever collection of stories from the bands of the NWOBHM. Through a mixture of exclusive new interviews, contemporary articles and unpublished photographs, Suzie Smiled… lets the musicians tell the story, including how some of the greatest heavy metal songs ever written were created.