“Dallas 1 pm” by Saxon

Saxon closed Strong Arm of the Law, their third studio album, in 1980 with "Dallas 1 pm", a heavy metal song about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Singer Biff Byford later recalled the band debating whether the track should carry one gunshot or three; they took the conspiracy theory route and put in three.

Byford, guitarist Graham Oliver, Paul Quinn, Steve Dawson and Pete Gill share the writing credit, and the band produced it with Pete Hinton, with Will Reid-Dick engineering. It ends a record that went straight into the UK chart at number 11, seven months after Wheels of Steel, and that Ultimate Classic Rock would later hold up as a cornerstone of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.