I lost contact with them for a long time after Crusader and the next couple seemed to wimp out and chase the American radio success their contemporaries were having.
One of (if not THE) most important VHS tapes in my old collection in terms of my musical influence was from a music video show in Australia called Rage . I set the tape to record overnight one day back around 1986 and woke up to a hard rock/metal special which had in quick succession:
- the Van Halen 1 "3-pack" of Runnin' With The Devil , You Really Got Me, Jamie's Cryin ......I was into 5150 but not yet Dave era
- Ozzy - Lightning Strikes .....Jake
......that's my starting point for Ozzy
- Whitesnake: Slide It In or something similar
and this one from Saxon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBbjtb-ffDkI raced out and bought albums from 3 of the 4.