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For their best of-album, see The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight
The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight

The Best Of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight is a compilation album of Judas Priest's hits, dating from their start in 1970 until 1996 . This album was released in 1997....
.


"Living After Midnight" is a song by British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 heavy metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 band Judas Priest
Judas Priest

Judas Priest is an England Heavy metal music band formed in 1969 in Birmingham. Judas Priest's core line-up consists of bass player Ian Hill, vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K....
, originally featured on their 1980 album British Steel
British Steel (album)

British Steel is the sixth album by Judas Priest, released on April 14 1980 . The album was remastered in 2001, with two bonus tracks added....
. It is one of the band's most popular songs.

On live performances, the line, "I took the city 'bout one a.m.," is sometimes changed to the particular city or venue the band is performing. For example, on the DVD Rising in the East
Rising In the East

Rising in the East is a live DVD of Judas Priest performing a concert in Tokyo's Nippon Budokan filmed in May 2005....
, lead vocalist Rob Halford
Rob Halford

Robert John Arthur Halford is an England singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the heavy metal music band Judas Priest. Halford has almost a four octave vocal range, from D2-B5....
 sings, "I took the Budokan
Nippon Budokan

The , often shortened to just "Budokan," is an arena in central Tokyo, Japan.For many Westerners, the Budokan is synonymous with large-scale rock concerts....
 'bout one a.m.," in reference to the stadium in Tokyo, Japan, that hosted the concert.






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For their best of-album, see The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight
The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight

The Best Of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight is a compilation album of Judas Priest's hits, dating from their start in 1970 until 1996 . This album was released in 1997....
.


"Living After Midnight" is a song by British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 heavy metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 band Judas Priest
Judas Priest

Judas Priest is an England Heavy metal music band formed in 1969 in Birmingham. Judas Priest's core line-up consists of bass player Ian Hill, vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K....
, originally featured on their 1980 album British Steel
British Steel (album)

British Steel is the sixth album by Judas Priest, released on April 14 1980 . The album was remastered in 2001, with two bonus tracks added....
. It is one of the band's most popular songs.

On live performances, the line, "I took the city 'bout one a.m.," is sometimes changed to the particular city or venue the band is performing. For example, on the DVD Rising in the East
Rising In the East

Rising in the East is a live DVD of Judas Priest performing a concert in Tokyo's Nippon Budokan filmed in May 2005....
, lead vocalist Rob Halford
Rob Halford

Robert John Arthur Halford is an England singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the heavy metal music band Judas Priest. Halford has almost a four octave vocal range, from D2-B5....
 sings, "I took the Budokan
Nippon Budokan

The , often shortened to just "Budokan," is an arena in central Tokyo, Japan.For many Westerners, the Budokan is synonymous with large-scale rock concerts....
 'bout one a.m.," in reference to the stadium in Tokyo, Japan, that hosted the concert. On the Westwood One recordings from the 1983 US Festival Halford recites, "I took some acid about 1 a.m...."

The music video, shot live at a small venue, begins with drummer Dave Holland
Dave Holland

Dave Holland is a United Kingdom jazz bassist and composer who is a significant representative of avant-garde jazz....
 playing an invisible drum kit. During the guitar solo, fans on the front row play along with their cardboard guitars (which were the prominent fan symbols of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal
New Wave of British Heavy Metal

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal is a heavy metal music movement that started in the late 1970s, in Great Britain, and achieved some international attention by the early 1980s....
 movement).

This song has been covered by The Donnas
The Donnas

The Donnas are an United States all-women band hard rock rock band from Palo Alto, California. They draw inspiration from The Ramones, AC/DC, and Kiss ....
 on their album The Donnas Turn 21
The Donnas Turn 21

The Donnas Turn 21 is the fourth studio album by the United States hard rock band The Donnas, released in 2001 on Lookout!. Their last release on Lookout!, the album marks their transition away from their previous pop punk sound and towards a more hard rock sound....
, by Saul Blanch on the tribute album
Tribute album

A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist....
 Acero Argentino: Tributo a Judas Priest and recently by L.A. Guns
L.A. Guns

L.A. Guns is an American rock band whose music is frequently associated with the L.A. glam metal scene which grew up around the Sunset Strip in the 1980s, in particular the sleaze rock subgenre....
 on Hell Bent Forever: A Tribute to Judas Priest.

The guitar solo
Guitar solo

Guitar solos are a melodic passage, section, or entire piece of music written for an electric guitar or an acoustic guitar. Guitar solos, which often contain varying degrees of improvisation, are used in many styles of popular music such as blues, rock , metal and jazz styles such as swing and jazz fusion....
 in the song is played by Glenn Tipton
Glenn Tipton

Glenn Raymond Tipton is one of the guitarists for the British heavy metal music band Judas Priest. Prior to joining Judas Priest, he was in The Flying Hat Band....
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Personnel

  • Rob Halford
    Rob Halford

    Robert John Arthur Halford is an England singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the heavy metal music band Judas Priest. Halford has almost a four octave vocal range, from D2-B5....
     - vocals
  • Glenn Tipton
    Glenn Tipton

    Glenn Raymond Tipton is one of the guitarists for the British heavy metal music band Judas Priest. Prior to joining Judas Priest, he was in The Flying Hat Band....
     - lead guitar
    Lead guitar

    Lead guitar refers to the use of a guitar to perform melody lines, fill , and guitar solos within a song structure.In rock music, heavy metal music, blues, jazz and fusion bands and some pop music contexts as well as others, the lead guitar lines are usually supported by a second guitarist who plays rhythm guitar, which consists of accompan...
  • K.K. Downing - rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar

    Rhythm guitar is the use of a guitar to provide rhythmic chord al accompaniment for a singer or other instruments in a musical ensemble. In ensembles or "bands" playing within the country music, blues music, rock music or Heavy metal music genres , a guitarist playing the rhythm part of a composition supports the melodic lines and solos play...
  • Ian Hill
    Ian Hill

    Ian Hill moving there in 1955 is a founding member and bassist for the Birmingham-based Heavy metal music band, Judas Priest.Hill learned how to play the double bass from his father, a bass player for local jazz acts....
     - bass
    Bass guitar

    The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
  • Dave Holland
    Dave Holland (drummer)

    David Holland is an England rock drummer, best remembered from his stint with Judas Priest. He is currently in prison for attempted rape of a wheelchair bound, 17 year old boy....
     - drums
    Drum kit

    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....