Legendary Rock Songs: I SURRENDER : RAINBOW.
Theme: I SURRENDER.
Disc: Difficult To Cure.
Year: 1981.
It is difficult to calculate the enormous influence of Rainbow in the hard rock world. We could say that they were the first great band of hard rock in all rule understanding the term as what it meant in the most buoyant years of the style in the 80's, but the truth is that they are much more than that.
They began more akin to the seventies canons with the more epic tendency of the Purple and the fantasy world provided by vocalist Ronnie James Dio, which would also lead to the ranks of Black Sabbath and would make his own in his later solo career, and that would influence so much thanks to the master Blackmore, in the European heavy metal of the following decade.
Rainbow's problem (or virtue, depending on how you look at it) was to change stylistically every time they recruited a new vocalist. Graham Bonnett changed the epic tone of Dio for a much more potentially commercial and melodic hard rock with “Down To Earth” (1979), which set the standard to be followed by countless hard rock bands in the imminent 80s.
Bonnett did not take too long to abandon the ship, and it was then when Joe Lynn Turner arrived, a young American singer coming from the band Fandango. His privileged timbre gave more melodic character to the band, making them equally indispensable in the understanding of the rock of voices and grandiloquent choruses together with the incipient American AOR, “Difficult To Cure” was one of the most popular vinyls of its time, with important imprint in the rock future at the turn of the decade.
The album opens with Ritchie Blackmore blowing smoke from the neck of his Stratocaster through a volumetric intensity rise that leads into a devastating riff in the best line of his personal and polished style, his identifiable clean and classic sound, and his impeccable technical talent.
Turner's vocal debut, of supreme brilliance and stratospheric tonality, could not have been better, and he more than lived up to the responsibility and stature of his position. Don Airey with the omnipresent and sweetening keyboards, the also rookie Bod Rondinelli with a sensational drum work and Deep Purple's very own Roger Glover reconciled with the man in black and carrying the rhythm completed the formation of this truly glorious “supergroup”. “I Surrender” was the band's most resounding milestone up to that moment, to whose masterful execution we must add the signature of the exquisite composer Russ Ballard.
Friends I hope you like this work I've been doing on the editorials about all these legendary rock songs. Here I leave you the link of this incredible song of which today we treat in this editorial a legendary theme of this incredible band which had one of the best voices of rock as it is Mr. DIO. So well I hope you like it and a thousand blessings to all. Thanks for reading me.
