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{{Infobox album
| name       = Night After Night
| type       = [[Live album]]
| artist     = [[U.K. (band)|U.K.]]
| cover      = Night After Night (UK album).jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 7 September 1979<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1979/Music-Week-1979-09-08.pdf|title=Music Week|page=30}}</ref>
| recorded   = 29, 30 May and 4 June 1979
| venue      = [[Nakano Sun Plaza|Nakano Sun Plaza Hall]] (Tokyo, Japan)<br>[[Nippon Seinenkan]] (Tokyo, Japan)
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Progressive rock]]
| length     = 42:13<br /> 96:37 (extended version)
| label      = [[E.G. Records|E.G.]]
| producer   = [[Eddie Jobson]], [[John Wetton]]
| prev_title = [[Danger Money]]
| prev_year  = 1979
| next_title = [[Concert Classics, Vol. 4|Concert Classics Vol.4]]
| next_year  = 1999
| misc       = {{Singles
| name        = Night After Night
| type        = Live album
| single1     = Night After Night
| single1date = September 1979 (UK)
| single2     = Rendezvous 6:02
| single2date = 1979 (US)
}}
}}
{{Album reviews
|rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r51766|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref>
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'''''Night After Night''''' is a live album recorded by the British band [[U.K. (band)|U.K.]] It features the trio lineup of [[Eddie Jobson]], [[John Wetton]], and [[Terry Bozzio]].
Recorded in late May and early June 1979 at [[Nakano Sun Plaza|Nakano Sun Plaza Hall]] and [[Nippon Seinenkan]], [[Tokyo]], Japan, it is UK's third album and their first live recording, released in September 1979 in support of the band's US tour supporting [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] (which Eddie Jobson joined after UK's split) and later headlining European tour.
The album was remastered in 2016 and included as part of the box-set ''[[Ultimate Collector's Edition]]'', along with an extended version containing nine songs not included in the original album and in actual concert order .<ref name="All About Jazz 25 September 2016">{{cite web|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/ultimate-collectors-edition-by-john-kelman.php|title=U.K.: Ultimate Collectors' Edition|last=Kelman|first=John|date=25 September 2016|work=[[All About Jazz]]|accessdate=4 March 2017}}</ref>
==Background==
According to Eddie Jobson, the album was recorded at the request of Polydor in Tokyo, originally intended for a Japan-only release, but Polydor in the US were also interested in releasing it.<ref>{{cite AV media| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211210/DcA1k8zvkps| archive-date = 2021-12-10| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcA1k8zvkps&t=380s| title = U.K.: Göta Lejon, Stockholm, Sweden (December 6, 1979) full show, audio only | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> John Wetton explained, "The Japanese record companies, they said that live albums are so popular in Japan right now, that any act coming in, it's almost compulsory to do a live album in Japan, just for release in Japan."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Curtiss |first1=Ron |last2=Weiner |first2=Aaron |title=John Wetton (King Crimson, U.K., Asia): The Complete Boffomundo Interview |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hcovFGVW44  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915003727/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hcovFGVW44&gl=US&hl=en |archive-date=2016-09-15 |url-status=dead|website=[[YouTube]] |accessdate=3 March 2019 |date=June 3, 2016}} Event occurs at 27:57-28:19.</ref>
The title track and "As Long As You Want Me Here" do not appear on any studio release by the band.
== Track listing ==
All songs written by [[Eddie Jobson]] and [[John Wetton]] except where indicated.
=== Original album ===
{{tracklist
| headline        = Side one
| title1          = Night After Night
| length1         = 5:21
| title2          = Rendezvous 6:02
| length2         = 5:17
| title3          = Nothing to Lose
| length3         = 5:25
| title4          = As Long As You Want Me Here
| length4         = 5:00
}}
{{tracklist
| headline        = Side two
| title1          = Alaska
| writer1         = Jobson
| length1         = 4:21
| title2          = Time to Kill
| writer2         = Jobson, Wetton, [[Bill Bruford]]
| length2         = 4:17
| title3          = Presto Vivace
| writer3         = Jobson
| length3         = 1:12
| title4          = In the Dead of Night
| length4         = 6:22
| title5          = Caesar's Palace Blues
| length5         = 4:58
}}
=== Extended version ===
{{Track listing
| headline        = Disc 1
| title1          = Night After Night
| length1         = 5:09
| title2          = Danger Money
| note2=''previously unreleased''
| length2         = 8:08
| title3          = The Only Thing She Needs
| note3=''previously unreleased''
| length3         = 9:14
| title4          = Nothing to Lose
| length4         = 5:12
| title5          = Bass Solo
| note5=''previously unreleased''
| writer5         = Wetton
| length5         = 5:15
| title6          = Thirty Years
| note6=''previously unreleased''
| writer6         = Jobson, Wetton, Bruford
| length6         = 6:16
| title7          = Carrying No Cross
| note7=''previously unreleased''
| length7         = 13:27
| title8          = Rendezvous 6:02
| length8         = 5:32
| title9          = As Long As You Want Me Here
| length9         = 5:02
}}
{{Track listing
| headline        = Disc 2
| title1          = Alaska
| writer1         = Jobson
| length1         = 4:18
| title2          = Time to Kill
| writer2         = Jobson, Wetton, Bruford
| length2         = 4:20
| title3          = Violin Solo
| note3=''previously unreleased''
| writer3         = Jobson
| length3         = 4:32
| title4          = Time to Kill - Reprise
| note4=''previously unreleased''
| writer4         = Jobson, Wetton, Bruford
| length4         = 2:21
| title5          = By the Light of Day - Part II
| note5=''previously unreleased''
| writer5         = Jobson
| length5         = 1:36
| title6          = Presto Vivace
| writer6         = Jobson
| length6         = 1:05
| title7          = Drum Solo
| note7=''previously unreleased''
| writer7         = [[Terry Bozzio]]
| length7         = 3:45
| title8          = In the Dead of Night
| length8         = 6:22
| title9          = Caesar's Palace Blues
| length9         = 5:02
}}
== Personnel ==
;U.K.
* [[Eddie Jobson]] – keyboards, electric violin, electronics, backing vocals
* [[John Wetton]] – bass, lead vocals
* [[Terry Bozzio]] – drums, backing vocals
== Singles ==
In the UK and other European countries, an edited version of the title track, "Night After Night" was released as a single backed by the non-album studio track "When Will You Realize?", a song later re-recorded by John Wetton for his solo album ''[[Caught in the Crossfire (album)|Caught in the Crossfire]]'' from 1980.
== References ==
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[[Category:U.K. (band) albums]]
[[Category:1979 live albums]]
[[Category:E.G. Records live albums]]
[[Category:Albums recorded at Nakano Sun Plaza]]