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What do you get when a jazz drummer, a former abattoir worker, a guitarist without a full set of fingers and a trainee accountant walk into a bar? According to this exclusive extract from Steve Carr’s new book Every Record Tells A Story: A Vinyl Handbook, you get the birth of heavy metal, that's what