"Lonely Is the Night" is a song written and performed by American rock singer and guitarist Billy Squier.^[1] It appeared as the first track on side two of his triple-platinum 1981 album, Don't Say No^[2] and became an AOR (Album Oriented Rock) radio hit, reaching number 28 on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in 1981.^[3] Despite not seeing a proper single release (although it appeared on the B-side of UK pressings of his other hit "In the Dark") or a music video, the song is often considered one of his greatest. It appears in the video games Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's and Guitar Hero 5 as a playable track and in Grand Theft Auto V on the fictional radio station Los Santos Rock Radio.

In the Led Zeppelin biography, Hammer of the Gods, the song is mentioned, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as one of the best singles Zeppelin ever put out, presumably for its similarity to another Led Zeppelin song. Although it doesn't specify what song that is,^[4] the song's tune is described as similar to "Nobody's Fault but Mine". Led Zeppelin had disbanded a year before the song's release due to drummer John Bonham's death.^[5]

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