The way Ronnie Dio takes Deep Purple‘s ‘Mistreated’ and makes it his own shows what a class act he was as a vocalist.Īt the end of the 70s Rainbow headed in a more commercial direction, now fronted by Graham Bonnet. The Dungeons and Dragons imagery of songs like ‘Sixteenth Century Greensleeves’ launched a thousand Scandinavian power-metal bands, but musically they were way ahead their time, and you can hear their influence right across hard rock and metal three decades later. The first incarnation of Rainbow with the late Ronnie James Dio was a classy hard rock act.
Over that period the band went through many lineups and changes in style, with the mercurial guitarist Ritchie Blackmore the sole constant factor. The Rainbow Singles Box set is a reissue of all the singles released by Rainbow from the years 1975 to 1986, on nineteen CDs, in reproductions of the sleeves of the original 7″ singles.
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