How a tiny music store in the backstreets of Dhaka influenced Bangladeshi Rock Photo: Prabir Das Tim Fletcher Tim Fletcher I was a music-mad teenager in 1980s England, and heavy metal was going through a resurgence. The older bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, who had started in the late 60s and early 70s, were still going strong, but a new cohort of exciting younger bands had begun to appear. The NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) bands such as Iron Maiden, Saxon and Def Leppard were getting radio airplay on Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show on BBC Radio 1, and appearing regularly on TV. They even had hit singles in the pop charts.