Rock 'n' Roll Children

Rock 'n' Roll Children

Infobox Single
Name = Rock 'N' Roll Children


Artist = Dio
from Album = Sacred Heart
B-side = We Rock (live) The Last In Line (live)
Released = July 1985
Format = 7", 12"
Recorded = August 25, 1984 (live recordings) Philadelphia, USA Rumbo Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 4:32
Label = Vertigo Records
Writer = Ronnie James Dio
Producer = Ronnie James Dio
Chart position = * #26 (US Mainstream Rock Tracks)
Last single = "Mystery" (1984)
This single = "Rock 'N' Roll Children" (1985)
Next single = "Hungry for Heaven" (1985)Song infobox
Name = Rock 'N' Roll Children
Artist = Dio
Album = Sacred Heart
Released = August, 1985
track_no = 4
Recorded = 1985 Rumbo Studios, Los Angeles, California, USA
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 4:32
Label = Vertigo Records
Writer = Ronnie James Dio
Producer = Ronnie James Dio
prev = "Another Lie"
prev_no = 3
next = "Hungry for Heaven"
next_no = 5

"Rock 'N' Roll Children" was the sixth single released by heavy metal band Dio, appearing on their 1985 LP, "Sacred Heart". It's one of the Dio's most easily recognized songs.

Rock 'N' Roll Fairy Tale

Rock 'N' Roll Children is a song exemplary for Dio’s style of blending the theme of rock ‘n’ roll with fantasy elements. It is about boy and a girl, meant for each other and at the same time hostile opposites, ending up alone in the dark. The song seems to be closely connected to the song Sacred Heart of the same album, which is about a quest imposed by a wizard to find the sacred heart bleeding in the night; in Rock 'N' Roll Children the fall in the darkness of the couple is expressed as the breaking of a heart.

Some of the elements in the lyrics of the song Sacred Heart are used in the music video of Rock 'N' Roll Children. In this video, two kids get in trouble and end up in antique store named Curios. The store belongs to the wizard played by Ronnie James Dio, who seems to have some secret involvement in the matter of their trouble. They hide in a closet and disappear in the nightmare world of the wizard, separate of each other. This dark world of the wizard reflects ordinary society, a hostile world for children of rock 'n' roll, because they don’t want to be enslaved by its rules and authority figures. In the end they find each other and the wizards game is over.


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