U.K. - In The Dead Of Night (Official Video)

Visit Bill’s online store for exclusive and signed items: Talking of audio and visual quality, as I was last week, this one gets an A Star rating. I hardly remember doing this, but the song was doing great business and offers for the band were coming thick and fast. The video takes me back to the days when the label was king, and you more or less did what you were told - that is, if you wanted to be on radio, without which failure was assured. And commercial radio formats had decided in their infinite wisdom that all tracks had to be three or four minutes, until Queen and others broke that door down. If you’ve got to edit the album track for radio and give it this breathless, squashed up feeling, then you could do worse than this. It features the shortest Holdsworth guitar solo ever; now it’s a little gem rather than a big luxurious one. But why does the track sound somehow old-fashioned to me now? So little in the way of dynamics. All the best players are workin
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