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IAN HILL
As seen in "Defenders Of The Faith" tour
Ian Hill A.K.A. The Sentinel was born as Ian Frank Hill on January 20, 1952 in West Bromwich, England and to this day, he still makes his home just outside of Birmingham, England Indeed.
Co-Founder of the Band, while Atkins and Downing (Downing and Hill were at the same school) were searching a name for their band, Ian Hill was playing for a Band named Judas Priest. When Ian Hill joined Atkins and Downing, He brang the name Judas Priest with him.
Hill learned the bass at the age of 13 with his father who himself played the double bass. Soon Ian got his first bass, which was made from a modified lead guitar with two machine heads removed for a four-string setup. Then after wrecking his car, Ian was able to buy his own real bass guitar with the insurance money he received.
Ian was married to Rob Halford's sister Sue and has a son, Alexander, from that marriage. Ian and Sue divorced in 1988 and Ian is now in a second marriage and has a young daughter from that union ( “Rob Halford’s my ex-brother-in-law. His sister and I were divorced several years ago, about ten years ago now. I see his sister from time to time because my son lives there. So, obviously, I see her when I pick him up..." - Ian Hill ). The friendship with his friend Rob was severed after the divorce, one of the reasons why Rob left. But the friendship between Ian and Rob has been rebuilt and now the family is once restored.
Ian Hill is the quiet one in the band. He doesn't play any bass solos, nor does he stand out on the band's tracks. He does not move very much from his own spot on stage (he's even been accused of having his boots nailed to the floor!) and he gives very few interviews, causing fans and the media to speculate if there's some kind of "mystique" or secretive life to Ian ( "Nothing mysterious about it - I mean Ken, Glenn, and Rob are the three frontmen and they do a majority of the songwriting too; we've a majority of interviewers who want to speak to one of them, so it's not really that I don't want to do interviews or anything like that, it's just the way it works out." - Ian Hill )