Gary Farr's LION - Running All Night With The Lion (1980)

[darnrabbits1]

I had this album and every song rocked..can't think of it..one song had clock ticking on it..they never got a shot and they were great.

[RockbertoRocks]

@darnrabbits1 Yes, this album rocks! The song you're talking about is Diana... arguably the best track. I hope to upload it someday soon. Best

[lesgl]

Ive come the other way with this song..ive only just heard the Uraih heep version..lol..ive been listening to this one since it came out back then..great song

Leslie

[bucky468]

I've heard of the late 80's Lion but not this band. This wasn't too terrible of a song. I gather the album didn't chart so I bet it didn't probably even sell 25,000 copies here in the states. That's a shame b/c this band sounded like it had some potential. This LP probably will never see the light of day on CD or at iTunes.

[drforjc]

This version is good, but I'm not hearing anything superior to Uriah Heep's version. The vocalist sounds a little behind the beat... Goalby keeps it moving better. Both versions have great keyboard and nice production.

[chrisbannisterone]

This grooves so much more than Heep's version!

[icomearoundnow]

This is credited to the members of Uraih Heep on Abominog, they didn't write this?

[RockbertoRocks]

@icomearoundnow Uriah Heep made a great cover of this song, but the original music was written by: John Sinclair (later in Uriah Heep), Steve Webb, Stan Humphries, Eric Dillon and Robin LeMesurier. Lyrics were written by the late great Gary Farr. I will upload a HD version someday :-)

[icomearoundnow]

@RockbertoRocks I wonder why this is credited to Goalby/Sinclair/Daisley/Box/Ke­rslake on Abominog

[nordenlight]

The band that did the Transformers theme was LION with Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake) and Kal Swan (Tytan), not this lot.

[mabudon]

running all night with the LINE haha awesome tune

Wiki "Lion Band" and you will find a little writeup- they did the theme song for the 1986 animated Transformers film

[jeddak]

Was familiar with Uriah Heep's version, but I didn't realize until recently that this song wasn't theirs! This version is very cool - I think I prefer it. Was this album ever released on CD? Seems pretty obscure - Google searches turn up nothing about Lion at all....

[drucer]

Wow,i'd all but given up on finding someone else who loves this album,as you said it was sadly overlooked.