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Richie Faulkner and Rob Halford onstage, and a studio portrait of Rob Halford.

A few days ago, Rob Halford was lying in bed when he had an idea. 

“It was four o’clock in the morning and I couldn’t sleep because of my insomnia,” he says. “I thought: ‘Maybe I should tell people that I’m going to start an OnlyFans.’ I’d borrow a cat and hold it against my nether regions: ‘You thought you were going to get cock but you got pussy.’”