Night Ranger-"Midnight Madness" (1983)

"Midnight Madness" was the second and most successful album by the band Night Ranger, thanks mainly to the song "Sister Christian" which was a real hit on FM stations and on the North American Billboard charts.
Formed four years earlier by Jack Blades, Kelly Keagy, Brad Gillis and Jeff Watson, their debut album "Down Patrol" (1982) had a great reception on the melodic rock and hard rock circuits with a consistent work where excelled "Don´t Tell Me You Love me" or "Sing Me Away".
The tremendous commercial success of this "Midnight Madness" released just a year later had a double reading for the group, as it would relegate the band to the category of mainstream commercial bands and that would increase the reputation of being too soft to be a true band. hard rock.
However, from the initial "(You Can Still) Rock in America" ​​followed by the powerful "Rumors in the Air", "When You Close Your Eyes" or the hard rock "Why Does Love Have To Change", they showed that thanks to the talent of its components, Night Ranger knew perfectly well how to make a forceful and at the same time addictive hard rock and this was amply demonstrated with the following "7 Wishes" (1985) and "Big Life" (1987).