Under Lock and Key

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}

| rev2 =The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal

| rev2score = 6/10{{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}}

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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.

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".

All credits adapted from the original LP.

All writing credited to Dokken (Don Dokken, George Lynch, Jeff Pilson, Mick Brown)https://blabbermouth.net/news/don-dokken-says-he-gave-up-75-percent-of-songwriting-credits-in-dokken-in-order-to-appease-george-lynch

{{Track listing

| headline = Side one

| title1 = Unchain the Night

| length1 = 5:19

| title2 = The Hunter

| length2 = 4:07

| title3 = In My Dreams

| length3 = 4:20

| title4 = Slippin' Away

| length4 = 3:48

| title5 = Lightnin' Strikes Again

| length5 = 3:48

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{{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

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All credits adapted from the original LP.

• Don Dokken – lead vocals
• George Lynch – guitars
• Jeff Pilson – bass, background vocals
• Mick Brown – drums, background vocals

• Chris Currell – Synclavier programming

• 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

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

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{{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 =

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| genre = {{flatlist|

• Heavy metal
• glam metal

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| length = {{Duration|m=44|s=30}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/unchain-the-night-mr0000379065 |title=Unchain the Night - Dokken | Release Info |website=AllMusic}}

| label = Elektra/Asylum Records

| producer =

| chronology = Dokken video albums

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = One Live Night

| next_year = 1995

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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.{{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}} That video debuted on Billboard{{'}}s Top Music Video—Longform chart at No. 11 in January 1987, peaking at No. 5 that May.{{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 |access-date=20 August 2023}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The video collection was certified Gold in April 1987, and Platinum the following April.

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.{{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 |access-date=20 August 2023}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

1. "Into The Fire"
2. "Just Got Lucky"
3. "Breaking The Chains"
4. "Alone Again"
5. "The Hunter"
6. "In My Dreams"
7. "It's Not Love"

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

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