Turn Up the Night

"Turn Up the Night"
Single by Black Sabbath
from the album Mob Rules
B-side Lonely is the Word
Released 1981
Format 7"
Genre Heavy metal
Length 3:42
Label Vertigo/Warner Bros.
Writer(s) Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler
Producer Martin Birch
Black Sabbath singles chronology
"The Mob Rules"
(1981)
"Turn Up the Night"
(1981)
"Voodoo"
(1981)
Mob Rules track listing
"Turn Up the Night"
(1)
"Voodoo""
(2)
The Dio Years track listing
"The Mob Rules""
(6)
"Turn Up the Night"
(7)
"Voodoo"
(8)
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"Turn Up the Night" is the first song of the Black Sabbath's album Mob Rules. It reached number #37 and #24 in the UK/US charts, respectively.

In a radio interview the band revealed that the four-beat hi-hat cymbal intro was simply a time-setter and was supposed to have been edited out of the final mix. The second UK single was "Turn Up the Night"/"Lonely Is the Word", released as standard black 7" in the generic Vertigo singles sleeve, a 7" picture-sleeve and a 7" and 12" picture-disc.