Living After Midnight
by Judas Priest
- 136
- BPM
- E major
- Key
- 12B
- Camelot
- 61
- Danceability
- 1
- Acousticness
Judas Priest went to Tittenhurst Park in 1980 to record British Steel, and the title of "Living After Midnight" came out of that stay at 4 AM. Glenn Tipton was playing his guitar loudly enough to wake Rob Halford. Halford told him he was really living after midnight, and Tipton answered that it would make a great title for the song he was working on.
The song appeared on British Steel, which became the band's first gold album in the United States by selling more than 500,000 copies. It later went platinum, at one million. The song is among the band's most popular.
Julien Temple directed the music video, shot live at Sheffield City Hall. It begins with drummer Dave Holland playing an invisible drum kit. During the guitar solo, fans in the front row play along on cardboard guitars, the prominent fan symbol of the new wave of British heavy metal.
Living After Midnight runs at 136 BPM, the tempo of techno, trance and big-room dance. In classical terms it sits in allegro territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.76 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 441 ms. It is in E major, Camelot 12B, which shares its notes with C# minor and mixes cleanly with A major and B major.
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