Judas Priest – The Story Behind Breaking The Law | Louder - video Dailymotion

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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00:00That song was written at

00:28john lennon's former house in tittenhouse park just outside of london with tom allen on the

00:36british steel sessions and we had about thirty days to write and record that album there was a

00:52time in the uk particularly at the end of the seventies and the early eighties when this country

00:57was just there was riots going on there was strikes going on there was a lot of pissed off

01:03people in this country rightfully so as a lyricist i'm always picking up on what's going on around me

01:15and i just remember seeing the news that night and seeing all this stuff kicking off and it just

01:21made me feel about um another area of the news which was that there was all these problems with

01:28young people leaving school or university or college had been promised a job there had been said you

01:37know you complete all this and do all this you'll you'll you know there'll be an opportunity to do

01:42this and there wasn't which is sadly a bit like today's world

01:47the knee-jerk reaction for some people is to not exactly break the law but kick back at the system

01:57so we we wrapped up that idea around this breaking the law there i was completely wasted out of working

02:04down well there's your statement right away you you're acknowledging a portion of society that's

02:12really you know having a tough time in life it's almost a protest song but it's just a very vibrant

02:24uplifting um moment for priests in our metal world and it's become legendary

02:42breaking the law it's in us all not only the love of that priest song but what that song represents

02:52breaking the law