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Fraser Lewry

"To whatever extent somebody was wounded, I am very sorry": That time Pat Boone went metal and the Christian community got really mad

Pat Boone.

Back in 1997, mild-mannered crooner Pat Boone – best known for hits like Love Letters In The Sand, The Wang Dang Taffy-Apple Tango and When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano – released an album of heavy metal songs.

In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy wasn't actually a heavy metal album, but it did feature a tracklist comprised of out-and-out rock classics, from the Alice Cooper song that gave the album its title to Metallica's Enter Sandman, Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train and Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven.

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