Track Listing

1. Princess Of The Night
2. Never Surrender
3. Out Of Control
4. Rough And Ready
5. Play It Loud
6. And The Band Played On
7. Midnight Rider
8. Fire In The Sky
9. Denim And Leather
10. 20000 Ft
11. Bap Shoo Ap
12. Intro/And The Bands Played On
13. Princess Of The Night
14. Midnight Rider
15. Never Surrender
16. Fire In The Sky
17. Machine Gun
18. Play It Loud

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8080 in Music
• Released on: 2009-05-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

CD Description
Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the British Metal monsters' 1981 album including nine bonus tracks. Denim And Leather, the band's fourth album, was originally released on the Carrere label and catches the band at an early commercial and creative peak, featuring the classic singles 'Princess Of The Night', 'Never Surrender' and their tribute to their appearance at the first Castle Donington Festival, 'And The Bands Played On'. The album now includes the Nigel Thomas remix of '20,000 Ft.', available on CD for the first time, plus the otherwise unavailable 'Bap Shoo Ap' (recorded at the Monsters Of Rock Festival in 1980), both of which were originally B-sides of the now highly collectable 'Never Surrender' double seven inch single. Also included are no less than seven live tracks recorded on the 1981 Denim And Leather tour. EMI. 2009.

Customer Reviews

Fill Your Heads With Gumby Metal Thunder
My favourite Saxon album from the classic era (I'm not discussing Killing Ground and that period of theirs). 'Denim and Leather' is lyrically among the most metal albums ever. It is not cheesy, it's only got a genuine attitude that's so characteristic of traditional heavy metal.
'Princess of the Night', 'And the Bands Played On' and Never Surrender's riff-set and the anthemic title-track are the highlights here without any weak spot.
This album just reeks of NWoBHM greatness and it's a mandatory listen for most metalheads (those intro depressive and very harsh things won't enjoy it probably because as I said earlier it reeks of a healthy metal attitude about rocking, having fun, love and being metal, going to the record store and stuff like that). That's about us, metal and hard rock people. This is a timeless classic for such a group of music listeners.

one of saxons best albums
wow its hard to belive it was 28 years ago already when this classic was released, i think by this period in 1981 saxon where at there prime and they where one of the best metal bands in the world at this point, saxon was right up there with maiden, priest and motorhead, the bonus tracks on here are fantastic as well, i am just now waiting for the last 3 saxon albums from the 80s to come out with bonus tracks and get this treatment, we are still missing innocence ( 85), rock the nations (86) and destiny (88) i know they where not some of saxons most popular albums but ive been a major saxon fan since 81 now and i have every album they ever put out and there is always something special on each one, saxon is my favorite british metal band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When Britain ruled the airwaves
Denim & leather was released when Saxon were at the height of their powers. Instead of being viewed as out of date and out of touch, as it is now, rock was what dominated the charts in the eighties. A time for classic albums such as 'British steel', 'no sleep 'til Hammersmith' & AC/DC, Ozzie & even Zeppelin were rampant in the charts.
Saxon's time at the top was brief in comparison to the aforementioned and they overall found themselves somewhere between the very top and the lesser known voices like Budgie.
Part of a growing backlash to the by now stale sound of punk Saxon took rock back to it's basic's with a heavy heavy powerchord, urgent and commanding vocals from Biff Byford and a sparse use of riffage all tied up with driving basslines and heavy drums.
I have to admit that 'Wheels of steel' is my favourite album for the 2 excellent singles that really saw Saxon take flight but it has to be said that 'Denim & leather' is not short of power and some very memorable tracks. The real point with this release is the life breathed into the album due to some spot on remastering and the excellent bonus live tracks are more than just filler and include a track from their appearance at the famed 'Monsters of rock' at Donnington. The Hammersmith set is what shows the bands live ability to it's greatest advantage and stands up well even against what is surely the holy grail of live rock, Motorhead's 'No sleep 'til Hammersmith'. This is well worth revisiting in it's new & polished up edition & if you have not heard Saxon before & are wondering what they have to offer then give this a try. If you like what you hear then keep an eye out in the music mags for new releases & gig dates as nearly 30 years on Biff & the band are still going strong.