The summer of 1978 witnessed a major “changing of the guard” in heavy metal, when the style’s tired elder statesmen, Black Sabbath, headed out on tour in support of their poorly received eighth album, ‘Never Say Die,’ and were routinely blown off stage a hungry young opening act who...
as he was known, had a long family history with General Motors. His father, “Big Bill” Knudsen, had headed Chevrolet from 1924 through 1937 and subsequently became president of GM. During the war, the Roosevelt administration recruited the elder Knudsen to manage...