Metal God Rob Halford has revealed that he got married to his long-term partner Thomas in an intimate ceremony last December.
The Judas Priest frontman, 74, says he finally tied the knot after years of putting it off, mainly due to Thomas' deeply conservative background.
He tells the Queer the Music podcast: "We got married by the cactus outside on December the something or other, about a year or so ago.
"He's from Alabama. Extremely conservative. I stopped asking, 'Let’s get married.' 'No, I don’t want to get married.' 'Oh, let’s just get married. We’ve been together forever.' 'No, I don’t want to get married,.'
"And then suddenly on one of our night walks, he goes, 'I think we should get married.' Straight home, on the phone to get a pastor."
Halford says it was a simple ceremony with few guests. He adds: "It was obviously me and him and an officiant, as they call them, who are legalised to marry people.
"Two of my dearest friends, Jim Silvia, who was Priest's manager forever, and his wife. There were just four of us around the pool, around the cactus, the heavy metal cactus. And it was over in an instant. But it was just a beautiful, simple ceremony."
In the interview, led by Scissor Sisters singer Jake Shears, Halford, who has homes in the UK and the US, also talked about life in America as a gay man. He described the US as "still incredibly homophobic".
He also recalled how his sexuality was first revealed to the world in a 1998 interview.
