Judas Priest singer Rob Halford opened up about myriad matters throughout his current interview on the “Queer the Music” podcast, together with his marriage to his longtime associate Thomas final yr.
The metallic icon and Thomas have been collectively for greater than three a long time, however lastly made it official in 2024, as Halford advised podcast host and Scissor Sisters singer Jake Shears [as transcribed by Blabbermouth].
“We received married by the cactus exterior a few yr or so in the past,” mentioned Halford, who has lived in Phoenix because the mid Nineteen Eighties.
Halford mentioned he had lengthy desired to formally tie the knot with Thomas, however ultimately stopped asking. Then, it was Thomas who prompt they get married final yr, they usually didn’t hesitate after that.
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“[I would say], ‘Let’s get married.’ ‘No, I don’t wanna get married.’ ‘Oh, let’s simply get married. We’ve been collectively perpetually.’ ‘No, I don’t wanna get married,’” Halford mentioned. “After which all of a sudden on one in every of our evening walks, he goes, ‘I feel we should always get married.’ [I went] straight residence [and got] on the cellphone to get a pastor.”
Halford described it as a “quite simple ceremony.”
“It was clearly me and him and an officiant, as they name them, who’re legalized to marry folks. [Also present were] two of my dearest pals, Jim Silvia, who was Monks’s [tour] supervisor perpetually, and his spouse. There was simply 4 of us across the pool, across the cactus, the heavy metallic cactus. And it was over right away. But it surely was only a lovely, easy ceremony.”
He added, “Is marriage essential? I depart that as much as you. You resolve whether or not you assume a chunk of paper is effective. In some instances, it’s — it’s extraordinarily beneficial. However for us to tie the knot, it’s simply good. It’s only a good factor. It looks as if you’ve accomplished one thing in your relationship, greater than anything. The dedication goes to a different stage whenever you get married. It’s a fantastic factor to do. And if it doesn’t work, that’s life. However I feel after being collectively for 35 years, it’s working.”
Elsewhere within the intensive dialog with Shears, Halford lamented that “America continues to be extremely homophobic.”
The Steel God is presently on the highway as Judas Priest proceed their co-headlining tour with Alice Cooper. The trek stops Wednesday evening (September twenty fourth) in Virginia Seashore and runs by late October. Get last-minute tickets right here.
Under you’ll be able to watch the complete two-part “Queer the Music” interview with Rob Halford.
