Saxon 747 (Strangers In The Night)
The Great Northeast blackout took place on November 9, 1965. Due to disastrous technical problems, electricity supplies to thousands of people in Canada and the US, were cut abruptly for 13 hours. Alarmingly, this included power supplies to airport runway lights, forcing countless planes to be re-routed elsewhere.
Fast forward to 1979. Saxon frontman Biff Byford is watching a BBC documentary about the blackout, and suddenly has a cool idea for a song. Within a matter of days, Saxon had 747 (Strangers In The Night). It would soon become one of the band’s biggest hits and greatest anthems.
“I was watching this documentary and somehow’ and that was stuck in my head, and it all seemed to come together naturally.
