34 years ago Saxon released ''Wheels Of steel''

Wheels of Steel is the second studio album by the English heavy metal band Saxon. It was released in 1980.The album received positive reviews by critics and is regarded as being amongst the band's strongest work. Eduardo Rivadavia gave the album four and a half out of five stars, considering it an improvement over "their disappointing debut" and said that "the album's songs positively gleamed with a bright, metallic sheen similar to that exhibited by the chrome eagle hoisting a motorcycle wheel on its iconic cover." He praised the song "747 (Strangers in the Night) for being "dramatic" and "lyrically unique", and the song "Suzie Hold On" for being "perhaps the band's finest early ballad", although he criticised the song "Stand Up and Be Counted", feeling that it "hasn't aged all that impressively"

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