In the liner notes to the 2003 compilation Stand Up And And Shout: The Anthology, Ronnie James Dio had this to say:
“We wrote this song for the motion picture Heavy Metal, a groundbreaking animated film. I was the only one in the band to see a prototype of the film, and I got it instantly. They wanted a song for a sequence where these people living behind a walled city are about to be attacked by barbarians. It was real science fiction, which I love, and the characters had horns coming out of their heads and all this evil imagery, so I came up with the title “The Mob Rules,” and Tony and I wrote the song. We recorded it in a house in Ascot, England, owned by Ringo Starr at the time. There was a studio in the basement. We spent three days there. It was an awesome experience, and the song turned out to be a blockbuster for us.”
In the liner notes to the 2003 compilation Stand Up And And Shout: The Anthology, Ronnie James Dio had this to say:
“We wrote this song for the motion picture Heavy Metal, a groundbreaking animated film. I was the only one in the band to see a prototype of the film, and I got it instantly. They wanted a song for a sequence where these people living behind a walled city are about to be attacked by barbarians. It was real science fiction, which I love, and the characters had horns coming out of their heads and all this evil imagery, so I came up with the title “The Mob Rules,” and Tony and I wrote the song. We recorded it in a house in Ascot, England, owned by Ringo Starr at the time. There was a studio in the basement. We spent three days there. It was an awesome experience, and the song turned out to be a blockbuster for us.”