Nova, Aldo - Hold Back The Night Lyrics

always loved aldo nova!!

Sound like foringer heart turns to stone 😃

Love the 80s rock n roll🤘

seen him in pouring rain Hart plaza Detroit in early 90's great show

Underated but Aldo Nova is quite something. Love him

The original Bon Jovi!

Great song but the video is....Cringe!

ONE OF THE GREATEST ROCK WRITERS, PERFORMERS, GUITARIST OF ALL TIME, CHECK OUT ALDO'S ALBUMS & I GUARANTEE YOU'LL BE A FAN FOR LIFE, GREAT RIFFS, MELODY'S LYRICS & DEVILRY...ALDO STILL KICKIN UM OUT, LOAD & HARD!

snake plissken i thought you were dead

BONJOVI - BREAKOUT ANYONE ;)

I can't live without you. Lol. Totally lost. Lol. Nopers

aldo lifted the riff for this from here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyTu_ZdcBCo

I miss the monkey, and the leopard print onesie

I wonder who the actor was in Fantasy, Monkey, Hold Back... and if he was friends or a family member.

THIS IS MUSIC LOVE IT

Why Aldo's career never took off is above and beyond my wild imagination?!
Hearing this for the first time in decades, made me realise, there were a shit ton of bands back then that shouldn't have had a career at all whereas, Aldo should have!

Way before Madonna, Aldoa rocked the eye patch

Aldo SUPERnova!!!

"U seen this guy?" nope. "motherfucker, look again" upstairs...

Wat happen to his eye

Hund and roses

short version

Is that David Sikes on bass?

Every bit as good as Bon Jovi

Every bit as good as bob jovi

1:57 !!! Guitarrrrrrrrrrrr SOLO !!! ... !!! 2:50 SOLO !!! 3:26 outro SOLO !!!
For me this song goes in same AWESOME category of this era / music type with ALDO NOVA - Fantasy, Can’t Stop Lovin’ You,... JOURNEY - Don't Stop Believing,... RICK SPRINGFIELD - Jesse's Girl, BON JOVI - Runaway, She Don't Know Me, Livin' On Prayer, ASIA - Heat of the Moment, Go,... BRYAN ADAMS - Run to You, RAINBOW - I Surrender, DEF LEPPARD - Let It Go, Photograph,... TOTO - Hold the Line, JOSHUA - Heart full of Soul, Surrender... and many others...

Damn ...Aldo is so freaking hot in this ! The guitar solo is bad ass*********

2:41... PUSSY CAT PANTHER MAN (3:03)... is angry or jealous

I WANT MY 80'S BACK. I HATE THIS TIME WE'RE IN NOW. I NEED A TIME MACHINE

Love Aldo Nova!

Aldo, channeling Mr. Dick Curless.

Jan. 2019

0:33 That stare....

magic 80s. I was born too late ( 1984 l😂

Aldo is killing here more talent than any of his time !!

Always loved this track

I bet Aldo wishes be had a time machine so he could go back in time and yank that bogus eye patch.

What bogus? He had an eye injury and probably figured the look of the injury was worse and would have been at least as much of a distraction.

Subject was a heavier album. The first album probably had better songs. Classic stuff. Really underrated guitarist.

Did you have a legit eye injury, or was the eye patch part of the persona?

oh, they were a real band back in the 80's? I thought this was a spoof

Don't take a shot every time this video tries to make Aldo look taller than he is. (I'm taller than him and I'm a WOMAN.) Alcohol poisoning can kill.

Ain't that funny

I read that Tonite (Lift Me Up) was a single in 1985 but doesn't seem to be a video (at least on here), anyone know if he made one for it>?

I don't think there was a video. It only got radio play over here in Canada.

when i listen this song i have a FIRE under my skin

I saw him on this tour, he banged a chick I knew backstage just after his show.

Interesting, He wore the eye patch when I saw him in Concert in Hawaii 83-84, said he did it from a jet Ski?

Guitars that shoot lazers are cool till someone looses a eye.

Yes butthole but I was thinking with my wrong head back then???

Aldo Nova must have at least one hundred guitars and he Shure No's how to Play them, his music is unreal love it too me he probably is one of the best canedian guitar player,

CassReps yeah him and Jeff Healey RIP

That Kramer is beautiful

Aldo Snake Plissken Nova

Love the wanking guitar solo circle jerk at 3:27

My very first boyfriend. ;)

One of Canada's most underrated guitar player but most of all composer!!!! Thanks for the inspiration Aldo!

Amen brother I said same thing long ago.................

Aldo Nova / Dokken tour.... promoters, book it!!!

1:09 this dude will forever be known as The Fifth Aldo Nova!

this is just awesome. what happened to music?

Think I still dig this tune after all these years?? I'm almost 62 and STILL have this on frickkin' CASSETTE. It's all but worn out...long ago. Living in southern Az. I got to see a million arena rock shows back in the 70's and 80's, as bands would play L.A....then Phoenix, then down here in Tucson. But Aldo's band never came thru here...I would have truly loved to hear them live. This is one band that absolutely should have made it big....huge in fact. I read somewhere that Aldo got an early taste of fame and money and went buck wild with all the trappings....which quickly de-railed his career. So sad. Got a Monkey on His Own Back,. Oh, I've been there too Aldo...had it bad. I thank the Good Lord I pulled out of it before it killed me....it almost did. I'd love to hear Aldo's account of those days and what all he experienced. Regardless of what anybody says....make no mistake, these guys could lay down the rock.

not what happened to Aldo at all. After the Twitch album, he got into a major falling out with the label and could not get out of the contract. He stepped away from performing for half a decade until the contract ended and focused on songwriting in Quebec writing for everyone especially Celine Dion and Bon Jovi. He has become quite well off from Royalties ...much more than he made as a performer,

I just  wrote you a response, and it disappeared once I clicked "reply". Don't know why that happened....it's been happening a lot. Anyhow, what was the falling out with Aldo and the label?

Actually Aldo was anti-drug Wicked, never got a monkey on his back. Did a lot of work with Bon Jovi after his own albums, also anti-drug.

I hear ya brother.....been an Aldo Nova fan since the early 80's ....no matter the obstacles he's had to overcome in the industry, I have and certainly others have recognized his enormous talent...

Aldo had an accident with the laser guitar from the "Fantasy" video.

Good one!  LOL

Love him, videos are entertaining......

still get's me hot!!

Love the keyboards perched on the top of a Marshall amp. Best afterthought addition to a music video ever.

Lee Aaron kicks ass covering this (Live in London). I had no idea it's an Aldo Nova song  -- time for an Aldo retrospective!

what's with the eye-patch?

eh? it looks totally rad!

looks just like the 80's film escape from new york

AArrghh, me matey

Tom R He had a eye injury cant rember the story

Aldo Rocks..

again..

Forte Aldo Nova/Jena Plissken

Loved Aldo's stuff...but injectin' those cut scenes to a stupid black panther....fuck that. Just show them screamin' on the guitars on stage. It's about the music...not some circus act.

+SilentKnight43 I thought it was the most 80s thing ever and its awesome....

Seriously, this is heavy metal at its finest!

+TheOnebigmick I really don't know. Some make it and some don't.

I guess he should have bitten the head off a small animal.

+Kevin Easter good music? yes. heavy metal? no where close

not compared to todays lunacy, but this is what it was called back in the day.

@TheOnebigmick He is in Canada, at least among everyone i know. He is known among all the top Canadian musicians as a studio guru and player.

I wonder if that was the same black cat in Nothin' At All?

That "maneater" belongs to
Daryl Hall & John Oates

Righteous circle jerk at the end

love the song but cant figure out the eye patch.....

I saw he toured in 2011 first time in 20 years

Aldo, Wher R U Now??? This is your long lost brother Anton Nova. I miss U and the music come out and play agin soon. U can find me at www.facebook.com/antion.nova See my 2 new guitar syth-harps in the photos. Send a friends request so we can catch up.  I will donate and do many free fundraisers 2 make HUNGER disappear by magic.Your blood Anton the Enigmatist  ==== p o o f !!!

Kick ass!!!! Another awesome cassette I rocked out, during my freshman year in high school!!!

How old were you when this song was released?

+Zha Zha 2

AWESOME band,soo incredibly talented!!! 

FUCK YES! Classic ALDO!!!!

Hell yes!!!

Snake plisken

New York. 

Ha ha Yeah, definitely

Still love it!

ive got this on vinyl...

Another GREAT song by Aldo Nova.

how dafuq did they get a jaguar 

I heard that Bon Jovi poked him in the eye to slow down his success.

Colin Sjostedt it wouldn't surprise me cuz Aldo intimidated a lot of Bands

Rawk!On

Colin Sjostedt lol car wreck dude

@Granville Friel 😟

Actually he injured his eye and they needed to do the video so they made him wear a retarded pirate eye patch to cover it.

Looks like a krammer guitar ;)

I weren't sure whom this was by - now i found it... Reminds me of my teen years! Thanks AldoNovaVevo & You Tube!

What rock and roll is supposed to be-

+larry ball In my opinion, too bad the post-'80s generation don't know that!

@AngelofAnguish maybe someday, we'll have more daring musicians like that again, we can only hope!

Could you be more specific?
I mean, is AC/DC your definition of what rock is? Don't take this negatively please, but my ears hear Aldo as Pop Music, I guess you could go as far as Pop Rock.
Okay yeah, my ears for rock would be 70's Aerosmith, Deep Purple, Grand Funk etc. But, man, Aldo is sprinkling the sweetener on this piece of music. Ha! There's a sweet candy named Pop Rocks, I wonder if that has any correlation to the musical term. Oh well, it's just a term, another label for society to slap on it and feel important. I dunno, maybe Mr. Nova could safely be considered light rock? Anywho, thanks for reading this crap, none of it matters.
Franz Liszt was a true rock and roller for his era...
Jan. 21, 2019
Maine was just hit with a foot of snow and ice, I'm going back to bed.

Aldo was about 4 years ahead of his time. This album and video came out around 1983 and that was really the time of the new British invasion. That year we got Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Men at Work, Thompson Twins, etc. Aldo already had the look and even sounds of the hairbands that would dominate in 1986 and 1987 after Van Halen and Whitesnake and Aldo's good friend Bon Jovi had blown open the hard rock window. I have always wished Aldo had been more fortunate with his timing.

@Tony Marinelli
Thanks for Teaching me something i never knew.
big thumbsup there.

Anytime

Totally agree with that
Even Two years later would have made a huge difference in Sales and recognition

In the late 70s to the earlier parts of the 80s alot of bands got left behind or ahead of it. Definitely timing played a huge part and I was going underground into the metal scene. Yes Judas Priest were just becoming huge after Unleased In The East/British Steel era. They really took off and after Screaming For Vengeance made them into one of the Platinum selling stage. They however started trying to keep up with hair metal with Turbo, my least favorite album. Iron Maiden who Priest took out on your found itself going down the same path. By the early 90s thrash and metal was looking for new outlets and Pantera changed the game with Cowboys From Hell. I never liked Hair Metal and that's why it didn't last long. MTV was shoving it down our throats and if you looked the part but sucked you still got a record deal. Thank Napster for single handily took down the music industry and closed the door on record labels signing nearly anyone who didn't get enough word of mouth. Today there's still a thriving underground scene with thrash and metal unless you're Metallica, Iron Maiden or a handful of bands that still have huge followings. I remember seeing Judas Priest and Iron Maiden clubs after selling out entire 18,000 seat arenas in the 80s. Priest last truly epic album was Painkiller. They finally released a great album with Firepower, however KK was gone and Tipton's Parkinson's was affecting his playing. There's some who say he had little to do with the making of that album and Richie Faulkner is really a great enough player to play both leads while on tour a couple years ago. I don't think their the same even though the album was what fans had been clamoring towards since Painkiller. Anyway just my point of view. I was born at possibly the greatest times to ckme in music history 101. I've lived through it and the 80s were just an epic time to be a music fan period. I didn't talk about New Metal because for the most part it also deservingly died quickly while old metal was making its baby steps to the thrash revival in the mid to late 2000s and are still underground unless your a band like Slayer who I'll greatly miss and was fortunate to see them with only 1 American date left on their farewell tour. I'm getting to be an old man now (I turned 54 this past August) and keeping up with shows every weekend long gone. Keep it going you youngsters and do yourself a favor and go back and listen to the music of my youth. What a great ride it's been.

No, he was chasing the Judas priest new heavy metal look. Big mistake in my opinion. He alienated alot of his fans especially the female ones. I remember all the girls wet between the legs for him after seeing fantasy. Then the poor dude got chubby with that new hairdo. Not a good look for a really short frenchman. Lol

Really, really wish Aldo would put the lyrics to this song somewhere… I googled it and found the lyrics in literally none of the results. And I am using the word "literally" correctly.

AARRRGGGHHH!!

Aldo Nova is Canadian for influenza, so protect yourself.

Will do man..thanks!!!haha!!

Aldo Nova wrote many hit songs for others including Bon Jovi

this guy is a stranger on planet earth and J Bon jovi sells 120 million !!!
Something seriously wrong with the music industry or did john swallow better hahaha

Amazing voice, amazing guitar! How is this not more famous than it is? =O

one badass outro too!!! and I agree they rocked plenty heavy to make it huge!!!

Nova rocks!!! \m/

One of the best intro's, Wonder why this guy did'nt make it massive! his stuff really strikes a chord with sooo many in the Rock world.!!!

They're both amazing guitarists in my opinion! I love the lead breaks an licks in most of the songs... I'm super hooked on Medicine Man. And I couldn't agree more with the statement about the older times... Nothing's the same anymore. I would've loved to have been around at that time.

That's super fuckin cool bro. You're lucky!