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Long Hard Road: 1980-1985

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A five-disc box set surveying the early years of Nightwing, the British band formed in 1978 who came up alongside the rising N.W.O.B.H.M.

CD Details

ArtistNIGHTWING
TitleLong Hard Road: 1980-1985
Release date (upcoming)
LabelHNE Recordings
Format5CD Box Set
Catalog No.HNE5BOX246
Tracks44
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Track List

  1. [CD1: Something in the Air (1980)] Fantasia
  2. [CD1] Nightwing
  3. [CD1] Cold Love
  4. [CD1] Edge Of A Knife
  5. [CD1] Something In The Air
  6. [CD1] Barrel Of Pain
  7. [CD1] Boogie Woman
  8. [CD1] You Keep Me Hanging On
  9. [CD1] Fantasia Reprise
  10. [CD2: Black Summer (1982)] Overnight Sensation
  11. [CD2] Bird Has Flown
  12. [CD2] Carry On
  13. [CD2] Long Hard Road
  14. [CD2] Searching
  15. [CD2] Evil Woman
  16. [CD2] Black Summer
  17. [CD2] Don't Want To Lose You
  18. [CD3: Stand Up and Be Counted (1983)] Let Me Be Your Lover
  19. [CD3] Treading Water
  20. [CD3] The Machine
  21. [CD3] Dressed To Kill
  22. [CD3] Stand Up And Be Counted
  23. [CD3] Next Saturday
  24. [CD3] Still In Love With You
  25. [CD3] Games To Play
  26. [CD3] Call Your Name
  27. [CD3] The Last Song
  28. [CD4: My Kingdom Come (1984)] Back On The Streets
  29. [CD4] Fingers In The Fire
  30. [CD4] Night Of Mystery
  31. [CD4] Give Me The Love That I Want
  32. [CD4] Cell 151
  33. [CD4] The Devil Walks Behind You
  34. [CD4] Living Behind The 8 Ball
  35. [CD4] Men Of War
  36. [CD4] My Kingdom Come
  37. [CD5: Night of Mystery – Alive! Alive! (1985)] Fantasia
  38. [CD5] Dressed To Kill
  39. [CD5] Something In The Air
  40. [CD5] Cell 151
  41. [CD5] Night Of Mystery
  42. [CD5] You Keep Me Hanging On
  43. [CD5] The Devil Walks Behind You
  44. [CD5] Treading Water
LINER NOTES
A five-disc box set surveying the early years of Nightwing, the British band formed in 1978 who came up alongside the rising N.W.O.B.H.M. scene. HNE Recordings, part of Cherry Red, releases it on 28 August 2026 (HNE5BOX246). The line-up of Gordon Rowley (bass), Kenny Newton (keyboards), guitarists Eric Percival and Alec Johnson and drummer Steve Bartley is represented by the four studio albums and one live record they issued between 1980 and 1985. It opens with the debut Something in the Air, which threads boogie and prog rock through a hard rock core, then Black Summer with its cover art by the fantasy artist Melvyn Grant, Stand Up and Be Counted with Max Bacon taking lead vocals, and My Kingdom Come, whose sleeve came from Roger Dean. The closing live album Night of Mystery – Alive! Alive! was drawn from concerts in Yugoslavia and West Germany, and the set carries new liner notes by Rich Davenport of Classic Rock.
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