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230. Rainbow "All Night Long"
Over the years Rainbow, the post-Deep Purple project of axemaster Ritchie Blackmore, had more personnel than the 101st Airborne Division, owing mainly to Blackmore's notoriously mercurial temperament. Among those to pass through Rainbow's revolving door were some of hard rock's best known vocalists: future Black Sabbath belter and hand-gesture enthusiast Ronnie James Dio, fluffy-haired journeyman Joe Lynn Turner (apparently, Blackmore had a fondness for three-named singers) and for one album, an interesting character named Graham Bonnet. Bonnet's brief tenure with the band produced, among other things, this recording, the finest case of Testosterone Poisoning in rock history.
With his slicked back hair, open-necked shirts and aviator shades Bonnet definitely looked the part of a single's bar Lothario (check him out in the song's video). However, he also had a lusty lion's roar of a voice to back up the posture. Here, Roger Glover and Cozy Powell (the outfit's bassist and drummer of the moment) provide an appropriate pile-driving wham-bam rythym and Blackmore unleashes an uncharacteristically (for him) bluesy riff and solo, all topped with Don Airey's over-excited keyboards. The sentiments of the lyrics (to say nothing of the linked video) won't win them any Womyn's Music Life Achievement Awards anytime soon, but for a portrayal of pure male hormonal overheat (hard rock division), this song has no equal.
Over the years Rainbow, the post-Deep Purple project of axemaster Ritchie Blackmore, had more personnel than the 101st Airborne Division, owing mainly to Blackmore's notoriously mercurial temperament. Among those to pass through Rainbow's revolving door were some of hard rock's best known vocalists: future Black Sabbath belter and hand-gesture enthusiast Ronnie James Dio, fluffy-haired journeyman Joe Lynn Turner (apparently, Blackmore had a fondness for three-named singers) and for one album, an interesting character named Graham Bonnet. Bonnet's brief tenure with the band produced, among other things, this recording, the finest case of Testosterone Poisoning in rock history.
With his slicked back hair, open-necked shirts and aviator shades Bonnet definitely looked the part of a single's bar Lothario (check him out in the song's video). However, he also had a lusty lion's roar of a voice to back up the posture. Here, Roger Glover and Cozy Powell (the outfit's bassist and drummer of the moment) provide an appropriate pile-driving wham-bam rythym and Blackmore unleashes an uncharacteristically (for him) bluesy riff and solo, all topped with Don Airey's over-excited keyboards. The sentiments of the lyrics (to say nothing of the linked video) won't win them any Womyn's Music Life Achievement Awards anytime soon, but for a portrayal of pure male hormonal overheat (hard rock division), this song has no equal.
