Night Ranger

Night Ranger is an American rock band that gained popularity during the 1980s with a series of albums and singles. The band's first five albums sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and are best known for the power ballad "Sister Christian".

After their success waned in the late 1980s, the band split up in 1989 and its members pursued other musical endeavours including group and solo efforts. The band soon re-united to release two new albums in the latter half of the decade. Despite the departure of original keyboardist Alan Fitzgerald and guitarist Jeff Watson, the band has continued to tour and remains very popular in Asian countries, especially Japan.

Their first three albums, Dawn Patrol, Midnight Madness, and Seven Wishes, reached RIAA Platinum status and garnered the band international fame. 1987's Big Life sold around 800,000 copies.

Dawn Patrol's first single, "Don't Tell Me You Love Me", received a boost through its MTV video airplay and peaked modestly at No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Midnight Madness made the band from opening act to headliner status by the summer of 1984 and featured "Rock in America," and the hit ballads "When You Close Your Eyes" and "Sister Christian".

Seven Wishes had three hit singles, "Sentimental Street", "Four in the Morning (I Can't Take Anymore)" and "Goodbye".

Between 1984 and 1987, Night Ranger branched out into soundtracks, recording or contributing songs to several teen oriented films. In 1984, the band released "Interstate Love Affair" for Teachers starring Nick Nolte. In 1985, they also contributed "This Boy Needs to Rock," to the soundtrack of Explorers. The band produced "Rumours in the Air" for Sixteen Candles in 1984 and "Wild and Innocent Youth" for Out of Bounds in 1986.

In 1987, Big Life was released and featured "Rain Comes Crashing Down", "Carry On" and "Secret of My Success".

In 1988, Man in Motion was released, but none of the singles were able to chart. After a tour in 1988–1989 supporting Man in Motion, Jack Blades left Night Ranger to form the popular supergroup Damn Yankees with Ted Nugent and Tommy Shaw of Styx and the band broke up.

The band reformed and released Feeding Off The Mojo in 1995. In 1996, Jack Blades returned to Night Ranger, which reunited with all five original members for two studio albums, Neverland and Seven.

In 2007, Hole in the Sun was released overseas in April 2007, but did not appear in the U.S. until July 2008.

Night Ranger released its new album, Somewhere In California in June 2011.