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Crusader (Saxon album)

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Songs
Reception
Track listing
Personnel
References

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| name = Crusader
| type = studio
| artist = Saxon
| cover = Crrusader2.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Cover art by Paul R. Gregory
| released = 16 April 1984
| recorded = 1984
| venue =
| studio = Sound City Studios, Los Angeles, California, US
| genre = Heavy metal
| length = 39:10
| label = Carrere
| producer = Kevin Beamish
| prev_title = Power & the Glory
| prev_year = 1983
| next_title = Innocence Is No Excuse
| next_year = 1985
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Crusader
| type = studio
| single1 = Sailing to America / A Little Bit of What You Fancy
| single1date = January 1984
| single2 = Do It All for You / Just Let Me Rock
| single2date = March 1984
}}
}}

Crusader is the sixth studio album by the heavy metal band Saxon released in 1984. The album sold over 2 million copies.

Songs

Of the title of the album and the title track, bassist Steve Dawson has said that "In England, there's a paper called the Daily Express, and on the logo at the top of the paper, there's a crusader, and there was a car made by Ford called a Cortina Crusader. That's what started it off. We just liked the name "Crusader". We didn't have any connotations of what it meant as far as history goes, but we just liked the name "Crusader", so we just wrote the lyrics to fit the title, really."^[1]

Reception

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| rev1 =AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}^[2]
| rev2 = Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal
| rev2Score = 6/10^[3]
| noprose = yes
}}

Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic said that although by the time they released the album, "the band had obviously stopped leading the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with its aggressive, blue-collar biker anthems", the album "as a whole offers a slight improvement over the previous year's Power & the Glory from an overall songwriting perspective".^[2] Canadian journalist Martin Popoff considered Saxon's turn to "a low-cal, kinder, gentler metal... a well-conceived experiment" and denied those who called Crusader "a failure" and "a bald-faced commercial maneuver", finding the album "refreshing if more than occasionally flawed."^[3]

The album reached No. 1 in the metal charts in Sweden, France and Germany. It also charted in the U.S. Billboard chart.

Track listing

{{track listing
| headline = Side one
| all_writing = Saxon, except where noted
| title1 = The Crusader Prelude
| length1 = 1:05
| title2 = Crusader
| length2 = 6:33
| title3 = A Little Bit of What You Fancy
| length3 = 3:50
| title4 = Sailing to America
| length4 = 5:03
| title5 = Set Me Free
| writer5 = Andy Scott
| note5 = Sweet cover
| length5 = 3:13
}}{{track listing
| headline = Side two
| title6 = Just Let Me Rock
| length6 = 4:11
| title7 = Bad Boys (Like to Rock N' Roll)
| length7 = 3:24
| title8 = Do It All for You
| writer8 = Biff Byford, Paul Quinn, Graham Oliver, Steve Dawson, Kevin Beamish
| length8 = 4:42
| title9 = Rock City
| writer9 = Byford, Quinn, Oliver, Dawson
| length9 = 3:16
| title10 = Run for Your Lives
| length10 = 3:53
}}{{track listing
| collapsed = yes
| headline = 2009 remaster bonus tracks
| title11 = Borderline
| length11 = 2:42
| note11 = Kaley Studio demo 1983
| title12 = Helter Skelter
| length12 = 3:35
| note12 = Kaley Studio demo 1983
| title13 = Crusader
| length13 = 6:21
| note13 = Kaley Studio demo 1983
| title14 = Do It All for You
| length14 = 4:46
| writer14 = Byford, Quinn, Oliver, Dawson, Beamish
| note14 = Kaley Studio demo 1983
| title15 = A Little Bit of What You Fancy
| length15 = 3:10
| note15 = Kaley Studio demo 1983
| title16 = Sailing to America
| length16 = 5:11
| note16 = Kaley Studio demo 1983
| title17 = Set Me Free
| writer17 = Scott
| length17 = 3:22
| note17 = Kaley Studio demo 1983
| title18 = Just Let Me Rock
| length18 = 4:01
| note18 = Kaley Studio demo 1983
| title19 = Do It All for You (intro)/Run for Your Lives
| writer19 = Byford, Quinn, Oliver, Dawson, Beamish
| length19 = 4:59
| note19 = Kaley Studio demo 1983
}}

Personnel

Biff Byford - vocals
Graham Oliver - guitar
Paul Quinn - guitar
Steve Dawson - bass guitar
Nigel Glockler - drums

Production

Kevin Beamish - producer
Kevin Beamish - engineer
Bruce Barris - engineer
Sound City Studios, Los Angeles, California - recording location
George Marino - mastering
Sterling Sound, New York City - mastering location
Paul R. Gregory - artwork

References

1. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoM6kf50um4 | title = Interview with Graham Oliver and Steve Dawson (OLIVER DAWSON SAXON) - Aero Rock Starz Festival | accessdate = 2013-09-26 | publisher = YouTube}}
2. ^¹{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/crusader-r17446 | title = Saxon Crusader | accessdate = 2011-06-17 | last = Rivadavia | first = Eduardo | work = AllMusic | publisher = Rovi Corporation}}
3. ^¹{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | authorlink1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties | publisher = Collector's Guide Publishing | date = 1 November 2005 | location = Burlington, Ontario, Canada | isbn = 978-1894959315 | page= 315}}

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