NIGHTWING: A Night Of Mystery: Alive! Alive! LP 1985 UK. Mint condition 1st Pressing. UK Hard Rock AOR, Progressive Rock. Ex-STRIFE. Max Bacon GTR, Bronz

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Nightwing  A Night Of Mystery – Alive! Alive!
Label: Gull
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1985
Style: Hard Rock
Tracklist
A1 Fantasia 1:32
A2 Dressed To Kill 3:47
A3 Something In The Air 6:51
A4 Cell 151 3:29
A5 Night Of Mystery 4:41

B1 You Keep Me Hanging On 7:47 [“You Keep Me Hangin’ On” 1966 song written by Holland / Dozier/ Holland and originally recorded by The Supremes for the Motown label]
B2 The Devils Walks Behind You 4:10
B3 Treading Water 5:17

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NWOBHM band Nightwing’s 1985 live album “A Night of Mystery: Alive! Alive!” has a sound that is closer to AOR / Melodic Hard Rock than heavy metal (they had more in common with Asia than Iron Maiden).
Nightwing, which featured future GTR vocalist Max Bacon, was one of the more overlooked bands of the British hard rock scene in the early 1980s. This short (only 8 songs) live album highlights the best songs of the bands catalogue, plus a cover of You Keep Me Hanging On.
The Zoom Club CD reissue doesn’t add any bonus tracks, so clearly the LP is the better or the only real option!
Well worth checking out if you’re a fan of Nightwing or other Max Bacon bands GTR and Bronz.

5 piece line up including Gordon Rowley = ex-Strife, ex-Razorback on Bass, Lead Vocals, Vocals [Harmony] & Kenny Newton on Keyboards


Gordon Rowley, bass player extraordinary and contender for the ugliest man in rock (NME review of Reading Festival performance), lead this fine 80’s rock band. The album was recorded in venues throughout the Eastern block. The sound quality is very good,  and the playing is certainly impressive. Nightwing had some great songs – “Something in the air”, “Dressed to kill”, and the title track “Night of mystery” are,(in my opinion) performed better live than in the studio. “You keep me hanging on”, the Vanilla Fudge classic, is also given the full treatment – complete with probably the best strangled vocals ever recorded, courtesy of the aforesaid Mr. Rowley (during an instrumental break). A very good album – and a very good introduction to this critically acclaimed band.
Great live album, can feel the energy, straight ahead rock and Gordon’s vocal will cure your STRIFE!
5.0 out of 5 stars As good if not better than studio versions. 

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Weight 0.25 kg

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