Before The Dawn by Judas Priest

Album: Hell Bent For Leather (1978)

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Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford came out as gay in 1998. Speaking to the Metal Hammer Magazine Show in 2015, Halford revealed that he wrote this ballad about his very first heartbreak. "It may not be in true essence, but there's definitely some truth to the fact that that was relative to that incident," he said.
This is a track on Judas Priest's fifth album, which they titled Killing Machine, but was released in America as Hell Bent For Leather because of sensitivity to a recent school shooting. The group was a swirl of activity at the time, pounding it out on the road, making TV and radio appearances, and hitting the studio with any time they had left. They were big, but got even bigger - especially in America - with their next album, British Steel.

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Dan Gillespy from Courtenay BcA very nice beautiful and super cool ballad with a short electric guitar lead and very nice talented vocals.
Dan Gillespy from Courtenay BcA very beautiful acoustic ballad with a small electric guitar lead and very cool singing.

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