Songs Of My Life #10 - Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me - 1982

Songs Of My Life #10

For a couple of months back at the start of Year 11 in 1986, we had an American show up in our year. I never knew his last name (or if I did it has been lost in the mists of time), but he was always known as Big Steve. He was there long enough to get in our school photo that year, right at the back. He was a funny guy, but his biggest claim to fame is that in the music he brought with him and introduced us to, he had several albums by bands called Night Ranger and Dio.

All three of their albums to that point in time - Dawn Patrol, 7 Wishes and Midnight Madness - became regular listening, and the lead song from the first album was "Don't Tell Me You Love Me". It's not only a song I enjoyed then, it is also a song all three of my kids got to know from a very young age, as we watched this video clip on the computer time and time again, so much so that they can all still sing the words whenever it comes on.