At a time when female rock stars were incredibly scarce, Dorothee Pesch blazed
her way from playing Germany's chaotic underground scene to filling stadiums
with some of the major acts of the 1980s and became recognised as one of the
great queens of European heavy metal.
Born in Dusseldorf, she grew up singing along to Little Richard songs with her
truck driver father, but fell in love with glam rock in her teens and later
discovered the hard, black thunder of Led Zeppelin and Iron Maiden. She studied
to become a graphic designer but was drawn into the music scene, first as a ...