Editing Under Lock and Key

{{Short description|1985 studio album by Dokken}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2015}}
{{Infobox album
| name       = Under Lock and Key
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Dokken]]
| cover      = Dokken - Under Lock and Key.jpg
| released   = {{start date|1985|11|22}}
| studio = {{flatlist|
*Amigo Studios, [[North Hollywood, Los Angeles]]
*[[Le Mobile]] remote unit
*[[Total Access Recording]], [[Redondo Beach, California]]}}
| genre  = [[Glam metal]]<ref name="Rolling" /><ref name="Metal" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Popoff |first=Martin |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/858901054 |title=The big book of hair metal: the illustrated oral history of heavy metal's debauched decade |date=2014 |isbn=978-0-7603-4546-7 |location=Minneapolis, MN |oclc=858901054 |page=82}}</ref>
| length = {{Duration|m=42|s=25}}
| label  = [[Elektra Records|Elektra]]
| producer = [[Neil Kernon]], [[Michael Wagener]]
| prev_title = [[Tooth and Nail (Dokken album)|Tooth and Nail]]
| prev_year  = 1984
| next_title = [[Back for the Attack]]
| next_year  = 1987
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Under Lock and Key
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[The Hunter (Dokken song)|The Hunter]]
 | single1date = December 10, 1985<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Dokken&titel=The+Hunter&cat=s|title=Dokken singles}}</ref>
 | single2     = [[In My Dreams (Dokken song)|In My Dreams]]
 | single2date = February 25, 1986<ref>{{cite web |title=Dokken — In My Dreams |url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Dokken&titel=In+My+Dreams&cat=s |access-date=17 September 2023}}</ref>
 | single3     = It's Not Love
 | single3date = June 1986<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr00stro/page/230/mode/2up |title=The Great Rock Discography |year=1995 |page=230 |isbn=9780862415419 |last1=Strong |first1=Martin Charles |publisher=Canongate Press}}</ref>
}}
}}

'''''Under Lock and Key''''' is the third studio album by American [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Dokken]], released on November 22, 1985, through [[Elektra Records]].<ref name="RIAA" >{{cite web |url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=dokken#search_section |title=RIAA Searchable Database: search for Dokken |publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] |access-date=September 28, 2015 }}</ref> The album reached No. 32 on the U.S. [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]<ref name="album">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/under-lock-and-key-mw0000189713/awards |title=Under Lock and Key Billboard Albums |work=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[All Media Network]] |access-date=October 2, 2015 }}</ref> and remained on that chart for 67 weeks.<ref name=billboard>[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=dokken|chart=all}} "Dokken – Chart history"]. ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]''. Retrieved June 15, 2015.</ref> Two singles also charted: "The Hunter" and "In My Dreams", both reaching No. 25 and 24 on ''Billboard''{{'}}s [[Mainstream Rock (chart)|Mainstream Rock]] respectively, with "In My Dreams" at No. 77 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]].<ref name="singles" >{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/under-lock-and-key-mw0000189713/awards |title=Under Lock and Key Billboard Singles |work=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[All Media Network]] |access-date=October 2, 2015 }}</ref> ''Under Lock and Key'' was [[RIAA certification|certified Gold]] on March 4, 1986, and [[RIAA certification|Platinum]] on April 14, 1987.<ref name="RIAA" />

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1       = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score  = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="album" />
| rev2       =''[[Martin Popoff|The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
| rev2score  = 6/10<ref name="Martin" >{{cite book |author-link=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties |publisher=[[Collector's Guide Publishing]] |date=1 November 2005 |location=[[Burlington, Ontario]], Canada |isbn=978-1-894959-31-5}}</ref>
}}

The album received mostly positive reviews. Eduardo Rivadavia in his review for [[AllMusic]] calls ''Under Lock and Key'' "quite possibly Dokken's most 'complete' album, with a little something for every type of fan", like "fist-pumping headbangers",  extraordinary "bittersweet mid-paced rockers" ("Unchain the Night" and "The Hunter") and "saccharine ballads". Rivadavia recommends the album as the best introduction to new listeners of Dokken, but notes that heavy metal purists would likely prefer the band's 1984 album ''[[Tooth and Nail (Dokken album)|Tooth and Nail]]''.<ref name="album" /> 

Canadian journalist [[Martin Popoff]] considers the album "too weighted towards [[Def Leppard]]'s fat-and-open formula rock", resulting "a bit subdued and predictable" in comparison with its predecessor. The band's glamorous look, the media exposure and George Lynch's "attempt to define the L.A. sound in his own image" do not save ''Under Lock and Key'' from sounding "like the work of a band just fed".<ref name="Martin" />

==Track listing==
All credits adapted from the original LP.

All writing credited to Dokken ([[Don Dokken]], [[George Lynch (musician)|George Lynch]], [[Jeff Pilson]], [[Mick Brown (musician)|Mick Brown]])<ref>https://blabbermouth.net/news/don-dokken-says-he-gave-up-75-percent-of-songwriting-credits-in-dokken-in-order-to-appease-george-lynch</ref>
{{Track listing
| headline = Side one
| title1 = Unchain the Night
| length1 = 5:19
| title2 = [[The Hunter (Dokken song)|The Hunter]]
| length2 = 4:07
| title3 = [[In My Dreams (Dokken song)|In My Dreams]]
| length3 = 4:20
| title4 = Slippin' Away
| length4 = 3:48
| title5 = Lightnin' Strikes Again
| length5 = 3:48
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title6 = It's Not Love
| length6 = 5:01
| title7 = Jaded Heart
| length7 = 4:16
| title8 = Don't Lie to Me
| length8 = 3:37
| title9 = Will the Sun Rise
| length9 = 4:10
| title10 = Til the Livin' End
| length10 = 3:59
| total_length = 42:25
}}

==Personnel==
All credits adapted from the original LP.

===Dokken===
*[[Don Dokken]] – lead vocals
*[[George Lynch (musician)|George Lynch]] – guitars
*[[Jeff Pilson]] – bass, background vocals
*[[Mick Brown (musician)|Mick Brown]] – drums, background vocals

===Additional musicians===
*Chris Currell – [[Synclavier]] programming

===Production===
*[[Neil Kernon]], [[Michael Wagener]] – producers, engineers, mixing
*Mark Wilczak – assistant engineer and mixing
*Cliff Bonell, [[Michael Lardie]] – assistant engineers
*[[Bob Ludwig]] – mastering at [[Masterdisk]], New York

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Chart (1985–1986)
! Peak<br>position
|-
{{Album chart |Canada |95 |chartid=0621 |artist=Dokken |album=Under Lock and Key |rowheader=true |access-date=15 April 2021}}
|-
!scope="row"|Japanese Albums ([[Oricon]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005 |publisher=[[Oricon|Oricon Entertainment]] |location=Roppongi, Tokyo |year=2006 |isbn=4-87131-077-9 |language=ja}}</ref>
|align="center"|56
|-
!scope="row"|US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/dokken/chart-history/billboard-200 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180509053546/https://www.billboard.com/music/dokken/chart-history/billboard-200 |title=Dokken - Chart history - Billboard |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |archive-date=9 May 2018|access-date=15 April 2021}}</ref>
|align="center"|32
|}

== Certifications ==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry |region=United States |artist=Dokken |title=Under Lock and Key |award=Platinum |type=album |relyear=1985 |certyear=1987}}
{{Certification Table Bottom |nosales=true}}

==Accolades==
{|class="wikitable"
|-
! Publication
! Country
! Accolade
! Rank
|-
|''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rowspan="2"|US
|50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time<ref name="Rolling">{{Cite magazine |date=31 August 2019 |title=50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-greatest-hair-metal-albums-of-all-time-162362/ |access-date=20 April 2021 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref>
|align="center"|21
|-
|''[[Metal Rules]]''
|Top 50 Glam Metal Albums<ref name="Metal">{{Cite web |date=26 November 2017 |title=METAL RULES |url=http://www.metal-rules.com/polls/index.php?id=8 |access-date=25 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171126083532/http://www.metal-rules.com/polls/index.php?id=8 |archive-date=26 November 2017}}</ref>
|align="center"|11
|-
|}

==''Unchain the Night''==
{{Infobox album
| name     = Unchain the Night
| type     = video
| artist   = [[Dokken]]
| cover    = Unchain the Night.jpg
| alt      =
| released = {{Start date|df=yes|1986|10|27}}
| recorded =
| venue    =
| studio   =
| genre    = {{flatlist|
*[[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]]
*[[glam metal]]
}}
| length  = {{Duration|m=44|s=30}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/unchain-the-night-mr0000379065 |title=Unchain the Night - Dokken &#124; Release Info |website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>
| label   = [[Elektra Records|Elektra]]/[[Asylum Records]]
| producer =
| chronology = [[Dokken]] video albums
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[One Live Night]]
| next_year  = 1995
}}

The music videos produced for the singles from the three Dokken albums were featured on a longform videocassette release, ''Unchain the Night'', by Elektra/Asylum Records through [[Elektra Entertainment]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Unchain the Night - Dokken {{!}} Release Info |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/unchain-the-night-mr0000379065 |access-date=9 July 2021 |website=AllMusic |language=en}}</ref> That video debuted on ''Billboard''{{'}}s Top Music Video—Longform chart at No. 11 in January 1987, peaking at No. 5 that May.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=388&cfgn=Videos&cfn=Top+Music+Video&ci=3005946&cdi=6286214&cid=05%2F09%2F1987 |title=Unknown |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=20 August 2023}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The video collection was certified Gold in April 1987, and Platinum the following April.<ref name="RIAA" />

In 2007 the collection was re-released in [[DVD]] by [[Rhino Home Video]] through [[Warner Music Vision]], debuting on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos chart at No. 27.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=383&cfgn=Videos&cfn=Billboard+Comprehensive+Music+Videos&ci=3083027&cdi=9218833&cid=03%2F31%2F2007 |title=Unknown |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=20 August 2023}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

===VHS track listing===
#"Into The Fire"
#"Just Got Lucky"
#"Breaking The Chains"
#"Alone Again"
#"The Hunter"
#"In My Dreams"
#"It's Not Love"

=== Certifications ===
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry |region=United States |artist=Dokken |title=Unchain the Night |award=Platinum |type=video |relyear=1986 |certyear=1988}}
{{Certification Table Bottom |nosales=true}}

==See also==
*[[List of glam metal albums and songs]]

==References==
{{Reflist|50em}}

{{Dokken}}

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[[Category:Dokken albums]]
[[Category:1985 albums]]
[[Category:Elektra Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Neil Kernon]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Michael Wagener]]