Fight For The Rock

Fight for the Rock is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band Savatage, released on June 30, 1986. It is their first album with new bass player Johnny Lee Middleton. Released in 1986, it is largely regarded as the band's worst release by both fans and band members, with the band referring to it as "Fight for the Nightmare". Jon Oliva said in October 1994, "I've never really been fond of that album. WE'VE never been fond of that album". The band said that they were driven to make the record by their label, Atlantic Records; particularly Oliva began writing pop-rock songs for other artists on the label such as John Waite. However, the label eventually turned around and told the band to record the music that Oliva had written for other artists themselves. This destroyed the band's credibility in the eyes of the press, and their reviews were not kind. The negative critical reaction has also been cited as the cause of Oliva's battle with drug and alcohol addiction, which eventually drove him from the fore of the band. Atlantic Records also wanted the band to have photographs taken, since none of their previous releases had included any. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_f...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)