NIGHT AFTER NIGHT

This now rare single was released in 1979 to promote their live album titled 'Night After Night'. The Side One of this single has an edited version of the same live version of the song titled 'Night After Night' (composed by Eddie Jobson and John Wetton) which was released in that live album and that was recorded in Japan in June 1979. Among the differences with the album version are that this single version lacks one reprise of the chorus, the organ solo, and some bars in the instrumental sections were cut, and it also lacks the 'U.K. ! U.K.! U.K.!' shouts from the audience before the song begins, so the song starts immediately without the shouts from the audience. This single edit maybe sounded well for radio promotion, but after years of listening to the album version I really prefer it with the organ solo and with all the parts of the song intact.

The Side Two of this single, a track recorded in a studio, is a song titled 'When Will You Realize', and was composed by John Wetton alone. It is considered by Eddie Jobson in the Forum of his official website as 'the track that split up the band' without explaining the whole reasons. But in some interviews he said that the band split because he and Wetton had by then different musical ideas for the band: while Jobson still wanted to compose long Progressive Rock songs, Wetton wanted to compose shorter Rock Pop songs. So, this song is an example of a shorter Rock Pop song more related to the musical style that Wetton was going to use more with the band Asia than to the Prog Rock style that U.K. still was using in the 'Danger Money' album, which it really was a mixture of both styles (also including in this mixed style the 'Night After Night' song which still has some Prog Rock arrangements more related to the musical style of most of the songs of that that album but still sounding increasingly more oriented for the Rock Pop Market). The arrangements of 'When Will You Realize' are simpler, with the band using an organ, a brief appearance of an electric violin in a chorus, bass guitar, drums, and lead and backing vocals. It really sounds like it was recorded very quickly, only to be released as the Side Two of this single, with not very much care. This song was recorded again by Wetton for his first solo album called 'Caught in the Crossfire' in 1980, but I still have not yet listened to that version of this song.

These two tracks were not released in the remastered CD version of the "Night After Night" live album, and both still are not yet released on CD, so both are now considered as "rarities".