Some Heads Are Gonna Roll

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“Some Heads Are Gonna Roll”
“Some Heads Are Gonna Roll” cover
Single by Judas Priest
from the album Defenders of the Faith
B-side "Breaking the Law (Live)"
Released February 1984
Format 45 RPM
Recorded September-November 1983
Genre Hard Rock
Length 4:05
Label Columbia Records
Writer(s) Bob Halligan, Jr
Producer Tom Allom
Judas Priest singles chronology
"Love Bites"
(1984)
"Some Heads Are Gonna Roll"
(1984)
"Turbo Lover"
(1986)
Defenders of the Faith track listing
"Eat Me Alive"
(6)
"Some Heads Are Gonna Roll"
(7)
"Night Comes Down"
(8)

"Some Heads Are Gonna Roll" is a song by British heavy metal band Judas Priest, originally released on of their 1984 album Defenders of the Faith, and released as a single later that year.

This song was featured on The Best of Judas Priest: Living After Midnight, which was not endorsed by the band.

Some Heads Are Gonna Roll is also included in the name of a San Jose, CA based film production company, Some Heads Are Gonna Roll Productions.

The song itself was composed by Bob Halligan, Jr, currently of the band Ceili Rain.

The first guitar solo is played by Glenn Tipton, and the second is played by K.K. Downing.

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