Magnum: Vigilante LP. + inner w. lyrics. 1985 Killer A.O.R / Melodic Hard Rock. Check videos “Lonely Night”, “Midnight (You Won’t Be Sleeping), “When the World Comes Down”. Check audio and album review video.

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Studio album by Magnum
Released September 26, 1986
Recorded: mountain Studios, Montreux, Switzerland 1986
Genre: Rock, Melodic rock, Progressive rock
Length 43:36
Label Polydor………….. POLD 5198
Producer: Roger Taylor of Queen,
David Richards

Singles from Vigilante
“Lonely Night”
Released: July 1986
“Midnight (You Won’t Be Sleeping)”
Released: October 1986
“When the World Comes Down”
Released: February 1987

Vigilante is the sixth studio album by British melodic rock band Magnum, released in 1986 on Polydor.
Capitalising on the success of On a Storytellers Night, Magnum change to a more commercial direction with their 1986 album Vigilante. Produced by Roger Taylor and David Richards, the bands sound stepped towards that of Queen, with keyboards much higher in the mix than guitar. The album was recorded at Queens famous Mountain Studios in Montreux. Three singles were released to promote the album, “Lonely Night”, “Midnight (You Won’t Be Sleeping)” and “When the World Comes Down”.
Tracks such as “Lonely Night”, “Need a Lot of Love”, “Midnight (You Won’t Be Sleeping)” and “Vigilante” laid the groundwork for the group to reach their commercial and creative peak on their follow-up UK Top 5 album Wings of Heaven.
Vigilante entered the UK National charts at #24, and #11 in the Heavy Metal charts. The album was well received in Europe, charting at #18 in Sweden and #57 in Germany, along with a worldwide release in Japan, USA and Canada.

All tracks written by Tony Clarkin.
“Lonely Night” 3:48
“Need a Lot of Love” 4:48
“Sometime Love” 4:20
“Midnight (You Won’t Be Sleeping)” 4:01
“Red on the Highway” 4:14
“Holy Rider” 5:17
“When the World Comes Down” 5:20
“Vigilante” 6:40
“Back Street Kid” 5:01

ON THE POLYDOR LABEL, CATALOGUE NUMBER POLD 5198

Personnel:
Tony Clarkin Guitar
Bob Catley Vocals
Wally Lowe Bass
Mark Stanway Keyboards
Mickey Barker Drums
Additional Musicians
Roger Taylor Backing Vocals on “When The World Comes Down” and “Sometime Love”
Daniel Bourquin Saxophone on “Midnight (You Won’t Be Sleeping)”

5.0 out of 5 stars Magnum tour de force,
Now while I like some of the early stuff (Just Like An Arrow & How Far Jerusalem amongst the few), this album is the definitive Magnum album for me. Produced by Roger Taylor of Queen, this album shows the group in true radio-friendly rock mode and the influence of Taylor is clear when you listen to other material. A lot of rock purists are not so hot on this style, but its the only way I listen to rock so I’m happy. Theres not a duff track on this album, even though Magnum didn’t get their commercial breakthrough until the follow-up single Start Talking Love a few years later (before sadly fading away again).

Best tracks : Need A Lot Of Love, Midnight (You Won’t Be Sleeping), When The World Comes Down & Back Street Kid, although the rest are not far behind. Although its very much an album of its time, it is still a big player in my house.

5.0 out of 5 stars Vigilante is certainly one of Magnum`s finest example`s of good solid heavy rock on any one given Cd ! “Need a lot of Love” is one of there finest along with “Vigilante” of coarse ! And there is also track`s like “Lonely Night” and “Midnight” on there too ! I personally have all Magnum`s Cd`s! I Simply could`nt be without this one!

5.0 out of 5 stars A long-time favorite,
This album has been a long-time favorite of mine. It is the second Magnum album that I discovered, “On a Storytellers Night” being the first (and my favorite). Being from the U.S., I had never heard of them until I spent time in Germany as a high school exchange student in 1989. Their sound was distinctly original and new to me, yet the melodies have a sense of familiarity.

I now have almost all of their albums, except for the most recent few. While this album is more mainstream than many of their albums, the musicianship is nonetheless stellar. These are great songs that are easy to listen too.

For those of you who are new to Magnum, this album is among their most commercial, radio-friendly albums. It is simply great. Many of their other albums have more artistic compositions. If you were to take the 2 or 3 radio friendly songs from each of their other albums and put them on one cd, you would have something similar to this one.

In short, its a great cd. Its not my very favorite of theirs, but it is among the top 3 (and they have a lot of albums!).

5.0 out of 5 stars All encompassing UK music fan
I have to say that I’m terribly biased towards Magnum and I make no apology for that but this is surely one of the truly great albums and must rank alongside Bryan Adams’ Reckless, Macs Rumours and the like. From the haunting ‘Need a Lotta Love’ to the powerful title track and the sublime ‘Midnight’, this album has the lot. If ever a track was a ‘headphones on, volume up and wallow’, Midnight is it. ‘Midnight’ is remixed on Chapter & Verse but was produced by John Taylor ( Queen ) and you can tell – the drummings up and kills the sax. Forget the ‘best of’ compilation albums – if you’re going to get one Magnum album, get this. I bought this in ’86 and even today, it still has pride of place in a CD collection of over 750. Get this and you can keep your lottery ticket in it – you’ll always know where it is.

5.0 out of 5 stars ARENA ROCK AT ITS BEST,
THIS ALBUM SAW MAGNUM POISED TO TAKE ON THE ARENAS OF THE UK.THE BEST MOMENTS HAVE TO BE LONELY NIGHT AND MIDNIGHT.BIG SOUND AND BIG HAIR MUSIC TO BLOW AWAY THE GRUNGE BANDS THAT FOLLOWED.SADLY IT WAS ALSO MAGNUMS FINEST MOMENT AS IT WASNT TOO LONG AFTER THEY WERE ONCE AGAIN REDUCED TO THE SMALLER VENUES..BUY IT AND ENJOY THEIR 80S GLORY

5.0 out of 5 stars The Magnum Opus, maybe?,
I tend to choose this, as my favourite Magnum album as it is well constructed and well produced. Every song, in its way, flows nicely from the hit single sound of Lonely Night, world issues in Need a lot of Love, the excitement of Sometime Love which then mellows down with Midnight (You Won’t be Sleeping) but maintains the balance, right through to the final, but possibly the weakest song at the end of the album, is well worth listening to many a time. Despite the poorer track, I still give it the full 5 stars.