“In this instance we took it pretty literally.”īoth men agree that the vision of producer Tom Allom, who had been retained after the band’s 1979 live album, Unleashed In The East, was fundamental to the project’s success. “There’s a lot to be said for the very famous phrase that goes: ‘Don’t bore us, get to the chorus,’” says Rob. Maybe that was in the back of our minds.” “Sometimes the simplest ideas just work out the best. Living After Midnight begins with a drum intro from the then newly arrived Dave Holland (formerly of Trapeze), and then it goes straight to the chorus.“I really don’t know why it turned “Yeah,” he smiles, “it made me sound like Clint Eastwood from A Fistful Of Dollars, clutching a condom.” If the song’s swaggering, chest-beating, nocturnal-themed lyric – ‘I’m getting hotter by the hour/Loaded, loaded’ – seemed to set up Rob as a bit of an all-conquering, love-’em-and-leave-’em sex machine, then the singer has no complaints. “It was one of those lucky spontaneous things that sometimes just happens.” “Rob’s comment proved to be a spark for a very important song for us,” agrees Glenn. “That’s how easy it was to conceive a Priest classic,” laughs the band’s former guitarist KK Downing now. “But when I said what I did, the guys went, ‘That’s a brilliant title.
“It was 4am and we’d been working all day,” Rob protests. It’s gone midnight.’ Which shouldn’t really have bothered such a metal icon as Rob,” Glenn says, laughing at the memory. “He came downstairs to complain and said, ‘Hey, guys, come on. In an equally eerie scenario, singer Rob Halford actually got the inspiration for the lyrics for Living After Midnight as his bandmates kept him awake by blasting out riffs and drum beats in the studio below. Slipknot's Mick Thomson: the albums that changed my life.Ozzy’s bat-biting anniversary celebrated with plush bat toy.Vote for the greatest Pantera song of all time.Metallica’s Lars Ulrich left “stunned” by Miley Cyrus’ Chris Cornell tribute.“You could almost visualise the white piano in the corner.” Tickets available here.“One night while we were there, John Lennon was on the TV playing Imagine, and of course it was very weird to be in the actual room where he’d been filmed,” Tipton remembers. A complete list of shows can be found below. Judas Priest's 50 Heavy Metal Years North American tour, with special guest Queensrÿche, is scheduled to launch on March 4 in Peoria, IL, and wrap up on April 13 in Hamilton, ON. Watch the band perform "Breaking The Law" and "Metal Gods" at Bloodstock Open Air below:
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