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Judas Priest – The Story Behind Breaking The Law | Louder
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4/12/2024
Judas Priest singer Rob Halford tells the story behind the band's top 20 UK hit from 1980, Breaking The Law.
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That song was written at John Lennon's former house.
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in Tittenhurst Park just outside of London with Tom Allen on the British
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Steel Sessions and we had about 30 days to write and record that album.
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There was a time in the UK particularly around at the end of the 70s and the
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early 80s when this country was just, there was riots going on, there was
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strikes going on, there was a lot of pissed-off people in this country, rightfully so.
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As a lyricist I'm always picking up on what's going on around me and I just
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remember seeing the news that night and seeing all this stuff kicking off and it
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just made me feel about another area of the news which was that there was all
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these problems with young people leaving school or university or college.
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They'd been promised a job, they'd been said, you know, if you complete all this
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and do all this you'll, you know, there'll be an opportunity to do this and there
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wasn't, which is sadly a bit like today's world.
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The knee-jerk reaction for some people is to not exactly break the law but
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kick back at the system so we wrapped up that idea around this breaking the
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law. There I was completely wasted out of working down. Well there's your
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statement right away, you're acknowledging a portion of society
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that's really, you know, having a tough time in life.
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It's almost a protest song but it's just a very vibrant, uplifting moment for
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priests in our metal world and it's become legendary.
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It's in us all, not only the love of that priest song but what that song
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represents, breaking the law.
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