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"Rainbow in the Dark" is a song by heavy metal band Dio. Released from the band's double platinum-selling 1983 debut album, Holy Diver. Assisted by a popular MTV music video, it reached #12 on US Billboard Album Rock Tracks in early October. The distinctive keyboard motif was composed by Jimmy Bain on a Yamaha keyboard. [2]
"Holy Diver" is a song by American heavy metal band Dio. It was released in August 1983 as the lead single from the band's debut album of the same name . Although it only reached number 40 on the Mainstream Rock chart at that time, it is one of Dio's most popular songs today.
The 1983 debut Holy Diver, by his band Dio, reduced lush moral landscapes to simple good-versus-evil conflicts, using the lyrical duality of 'Rainbow in the Dark' and 'Holy Diver' to raise questions about deceit and hypocrisy in romance and religion. In the sharp contrasts of Dio's imagery, there was always a built-in contradiction that fed ...
It features two appearances by Dio at the Monsters of Rock festival at Donington: the 1983 show and the 1987 show (from the Holy Diver and Dream Evil tours, respectively). [3] [4] In addition to his work with his own band, material from Ronnie James Dio's time in Black Sabbath and Rainbow is also showcased.
Metal Hits is a compilation album by the heavy metal band Dio and was released in 2005 by Rhino Flashback Records. [2] Multi-instrumentalist and heavy-metal mainstay Ronnie James Dio built up a hefty back catalog over the decades, with a career that spans vocalizing for Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and of course, his own group, Dio.
While an American Idol contestant covered Dio’s “Holy Diver” earlier this year and was also rejected, that was more of a joke audition. Giuliana was dead serious, and I thought she had a ...
Strange Highways is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Dio.It's also their first album since Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice's reunion tour with Black Sabbath.
We Rock is a compilation video album by the American heavy metal band Dio.It collects the out-of-print videos Live in Concert (1984) and A Special from the Spectrum (1984), which had been available on VHS and a Japanese issued Laserdisc, minus a couple of songs.