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How I Wrote… “Living After Midnight”

Judas Priest fan or not, chances are good you know “Living After Midnight,” the rock and roll celebration from , the 1980 album that also includes such perennial Priest favorites as “Breaking the Law” and “Metal Gods.” Written by singer Rob Halford and Priest’s twin guitarists at that time, Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing, it’s probably the easiest song to play in Priest’s entire catalog, with an eight bar solo that is the very essence of

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