SAXON: 747 (Strangers In The Night) 7″ + See the light Shining. 1980 Check videos. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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7″ SINGLE IS ON CARRERE RECORDS LABEL 1980
747 (Strangers In The Night)
B/W SEE THE LIGHT SHINING
LABEL -CARRERE
CATALOGUE NUMBER -CAR 151
YEAR OF RELEASE – 1980

Saxon, easily the most underrated NWOBHM band of all time!


Biff Byford to pick the best songs from their huge back catalogue.

747 (STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT) (Wheels Of Steel, 1980)
“Well, it wasn’t the first single from the Wheels Of Steel album – that was the title track – but it was the one that got us noticed. This was the track that proved we could write a heavy song with a clear melody. It was also one of the first songs to put NWOBHM on the radio, which was important for us and  also for the genre.”


  • Released the year after the classic UFO album Strangers In The Night, this uptempo Saxon track is one of their most recognizable and certainly one of their best. In his memoir Never Surrender…, frontman Biff Byford said he was once asked by DJ Tommy Vance what was his fascination with songs about night. He couldn’t answer. He is more positive about this song which he said is about two things: people, strangers, meeting in airports and generally people having romances, affairs, one-night stands and going off again, like ships in the night. And about a power cut in New York – he saw a documentary about that.

    The plane alluded to was actually Scandinavian Airlines 911, not 101. And it was not a jumbo jet because this plane did not enter service until 1969, four years after the event concerned.

  • Although Biff does not go into detail in his book, the documentary he saw was The Trigger Effect in the Connections series presented by James Burke. It was first broadcast October 17, 1978, and covered inter alias what had become known as the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965.

    The power outage can be traced precisely: November 9, 1965, 16 minutes 11 seconds past 5 in the evening. It happened at Niagara, but because of the interdependence of the system it turned out the lights over a significant area of Canada and North America. Scandinavian Airlines 911 was headed for the blacked out John F. Kennedy Airport with its crew and 89 passengers, but thankfully managed to land safely.



One of the most underrated songs by an already underrated band! Just kickass rock ‘n’ roll.

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