Rainbow To Release Deluxe Expanded Edition 'Down To Earth' In January 2011
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Friday, 03 December 2010 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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As one of the cornerstones of British Rock, Rainbow, lead by the never-predictable but ever-astonishing guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, became synonymous with some of the most well regarded and popular charting Rock songs of the seventies and eighties. From the mystic and quasi-religious ‘Stargazer’ and ‘Man On A Silver Mountain’ to the solid gold anthems of ‘All Night Long’, ‘Long Live Rock And Roll’ and ‘Since You Been Gone’, each year in the decade of Rainbow was marked by some of the best songs and performances captured both on record and in-concert.
Passing through the band were some of the best the genre had to offer. Vocalists Ronnie James Dio and Graham Bonnet, bass player and producer Roger Glover and drummer Cozy Powell, each brought their individual talent to the table to record some of Rock’s best loved hard rock on those timeless albums and singles.
Universal Music is proud to announce the imminent release of 'Down To Earth' in deluxe expanded edition….
With a relatively unknown new vocalist installed as replacement to the now departed (to Black Sabbath) Ronnie James Dio, ex. Marbles lung-buster, Graham Bonnet would leave his mark on Rainbow by taking the band into far more commercial chart accessible territory. With the loss of Dio’s dungeon and dragon lyricism and the new ‘boy-meets-girl’ subject matter, those girls were now paying attention and buying singles such as, ‘Since You Been Gone’, ‘All Night Long’ and ‘Lost In Hollywood’ in their droves.
Released in 1979, 'Down To Earth' Rainbow’s fourth album studio album sees a band revitalised not only by a brand new vocalist but also with the addition of Blackmore’s former Deep Purple colleague Roger Glover on bass guitar. With Glover also sitting in the producer’s chair, Down To Earth delivers the goods of a solid hard rock album with aplomb.
This Deluxe Expanded Edition adds the two non-album single B-Sides, ‘Bad Girl’ and ‘Weiss Heim’ and a complete second disc of previously unreleased studio outtakes and alternative versions which allow us to hear Down To Earth as a work-in-progress for the very first time.
Full tracklistings:
Down To Earth
Disc 1
1. All Night Long
2. Eyes Of The World
3. No Time To Lose
4. Makin’ Love
5. Since You Been Gone
6. Love’s No Friend
7. Danger Zone
8. Lost In Hollywood
Bonus Tracks:
9. Bad Girl (7” Single B-Side)
10. Weiss Heim (7” Single B-Side)
Disc 2
1. All Night Long (Instrumental Outtake)
2. Eyes Of The World (Instrumental Outtake)
3. Spark Don’t Mean A Fire
4. Makin’ Love (Instrumental Outtake)
5. Since You Been Gone (Instrumental Outtake)
6. Ain’t A Lot Of Love In The Heart Of Me
7. Danger Zone (Instrumental Outtake)
8. Lost In Hollywood (Instrumental Outtake)
9. Bad Girls (Instrumental Outtake)
10. Ain’t A Lot Of Love In The Heart
11. Eyes Of The World (Instrumental Outtake – Take 2)
12. All Night Long (Cozy Powell Mix)
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