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Night Ranger
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San Francisco, United States (early 80's – 1989)
Night Ranger is an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California in the early 80’s. A band that epitomized the mega-selling, big hair, soft metal sound, Night Ranger took a break at the end of that decade but reunited in 1996 and they continue to perform in various guises. Night Ranger had a string of best-selling albums with sales of more than 16 million copies fuelled by multiple hit singles—particularly their first hit, “
Sister Christian”.
The band started when Jack Blades (bass/lead vocals), Jeff Watson (guitarist/singer), Brad Gillis (guitarist/singer), and Kelly Keagy(drummer/lead singer) joined forces in San Francisco in the early ‘80s with keyboardist Alan Fitzgerald (Sammy Hagar, Montrose) to launch Night Ranger. The group drew the attention of legendary promoter Bill Graham and was soon appearing in concert with major artists such as the The Doobie Brothers, Santana, Rick Springfield, and Judas Priest.
In 1982, Neil Bogart signed the band to Boardwalk Records and the group debuted with the Top 40 album Dawn Patrol, whose single “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” also went Top 40.
Later that year, the band found a new home with Camel/MCA. In 1983, Night Ranger released a multi-platinum, Top 20 album, Midnight Madness. This yielded the top #5 single “Sister Christian”, the Top 40 “When You Close Your Eyes” and “(You Can Still) Rock in America,” its raucous crowd pleasing concert closer. The band’s visual appeal also made Night Ranger a staple of the world-changing phenomenon called MTV.
Sister Christian”.The band started when Jack Blades (bass/lead vocals), Jeff Watson (guitarist/singer), Brad Gillis (guitarist/singer), and Kelly Keagy(drummer/lead singer) joined forces in San Francisco in the early ‘80s with keyboardist Alan Fitzgerald (Sammy Hagar, Montrose) to launch Night Ranger. The group drew the attention of legendary promoter Bill Graham and was soon appearing in concert with major artists such as the The Doobie Brothers, Santana, Rick Springfield, and Judas Priest.
In 1982, Neil Bogart signed the band to Boardwalk Records and the group debuted with the Top 40 album Dawn Patrol, whose single “
Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” also went Top 40.Later that year, the band found a new home with Camel/MCA. In 1983, Night Ranger released a multi-platinum, Top 20 album, Midnight Madness. This yielded the top #5 single “
Sister Christian”, the Top 40 “When You Close Your Eyes” and “(You Can Still) Rock in America,” its raucous crowd pleasing concert closer. The band’s visual appeal also made Night Ranger a staple of the world-changing phenomenon called MTV.
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Sister Christian
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Don't Tell Me You Love Me
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When You Close Your Eyes
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(You Can Still) Rock in America
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Sister Christian
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Don't Tell Me You Love Me
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When You Close Your Eyes
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Sentimental Street
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Goodbye
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(You Can Still) Rock in America
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Sing Me Away
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Four in the Morning
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Rumours in the Air
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Restless Kind
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Eddie's Comin' Out Tonight
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This Boy Needs to Rock
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The Secret of My Success
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Touch of Madness
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Seven Wishes
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Shoutbox
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thebroadcast wrote:
Call my name ! I will follow ! Seven wishes ! Let him run ! Faces ! The Secret of my sucess ! Passion Play ! I need a woman ! ( so do I ) At night she sleeps ! Restless kind ! Can't find me a thrill ! Four in the morning ! Night Ranger ! I hear a voice over the sound of the city, I hear you call my name....................I hear you call out to me.........Sirens ( squad 51 start an IV with D5W and transport immediately ) <--oh wait that last part is on the TV :o)
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UPRC wrote:
Haha, I only know of this band because of Patton Oswalt. Squibbly-dabbly-doo!!
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hairmetalman666 wrote:
lets continue to rock cos this boy needs to rock best night ranger album ever
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IcemanAlbNM wrote:
Used to cruze to this song. Good times!
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NIghtLcDragon wrote:
Seven is a great Album but the rest...
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Pastiche1 wrote:
Love the guitar work on (You Can Still) Rock in America.
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schilcote wrote:
There's no bald pepole though. It's hair-ish.
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adachin wrote:
That's right.We don't give a damn about their tags. Night Ranger Rocks!!
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ChiefKrazyHorse wrote:
Dude. Who cares about genres? The music's good, that's all that matters.
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mikeroach113 wrote:
STOP FUCKING TAGGING THEM HAIR METAL. They aren't. They're not even metal, they're ARENA ROCK (eg Boston, Styx, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon, Journey, etc.)
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hurricane_mario wrote:
GO LISTEN TO 'BIG LIFE'. Amazing song, great album.
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hemlokk wrote:
Brad Gillis was Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist after Randy Rhoads died, he finished the tour and was on the live album, Speak of the Devil which was all old Black Sabbath songs, then went back to Night Ranger.
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hurricane_mario wrote:
In American Dad. Might get a lot of exposure.
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ChiefKrazyHorse wrote:
Highly underrated band..
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djtifaheart wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/Night+Ranger Why isn't a group for this band yet? Join please!
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Thradar wrote:
Typical. Syster Christian has a gazillion listens, the rest of their stuff almost none. I personally HATED that song when it came out, still do. And NR was huge in the 80s rock scene. Only 111K scrobbles? How quickly we forget.
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timskinner1 wrote:
There's nothing wrong with a bit of hair :)
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mikeroach113 wrote:
Night Ranger ISN'T hair metal, dammit! They're arena rock just like Styx and Journey and Boston and all the bands like that! Plus there's 5 members in the band, and two of them have short hair. Anyway, the new pic is alot better, because it's all 5 members, and it's better overall and doesn't give off the wrong impression.
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dougydarkangel wrote:
Why such a low count?
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