John Lennon’s former dwelling impressed Judas Priest’s 1980 basic ‘Residing After Midnight’.
The heavy metallic band’s guitarist Glenn Tipton has recalled how the tune took place whereas the band had been engaged on their iconic LP ‘British Metal’ at Tittenhurst Park, the place the outdated residence of the late Beatles frontman is located in Berkshire, England.
Within the early hours, he and frontman Rob Halford created the tune sat reverse Lennon’s well-known piano from the ‘Think about’ music video.
He recalled: “We had been engaged on the songs for ‘British Metal’ at Tittenhurst Park, which had been John Lennon’s outdated dwelling earlier than he bought it to [Sir] Ringo Starr.
“We would been out on the pub, and once we received again fairly late, I began engaged on some concepts in the lounge, however the noise woke Rob. His bed room was proper above. He got here down and mentioned he could not get the riff out of his head, so I requested him to sing some lyrics proper there on the spot and he got here up with, ‘Residing after midnight, loving until the daybreak.’ That was how we used to dwell our life again in these days.”
He continued: “I ought to point out that it was very surreal sitting in the lounge with John Lennon’s white piano there – the one he performed ‘Think about’ on within the video for that tune.”
He added to Guitar Participant journal: “It was actually a quite simple riff that simply labored.
“We completed the music earlier than Rob labored on ending the lyrics. We did not have a working title or something aside from the concept that Rob had provide you with for the refrain. I believe the riff simply spoke for itself and like each nice tune that we ever wrote, it got here collectively actually quick. One of the best songs all the time do. It was nearly totally shaped from the outset. It did not evolve by way of any completely different approaches or stylistic adjustments; it was simply born from nothing and labored instantly.”
