1049 - Saxon 747 (Strangers In The Night) 1980

After the formative début the previous year, Saxon would hit upon a winning formula with “Wheels Of Steel” and embark on a rich vein of form that lasted for something like the next four years. The classic air-disaster story “747 (Strangers In The Night)“, is a song that proved that as opposed to simply delivering a rocker of a song, Saxon had the ability to convey meaningful, dramatically descriptive lyrics too.