Rainbow's 2nd album and from the previous album Richie Blackmoore (ex.Deep Purple) only took the singer Ronnie James Dio with him. The coverart is fantastic and there are some nice photos of the band on the back and in the gatefold sleeve. The album has some good, classic hardrocksongs but I feel that it could have been better. It reached nr.6 in the UK.

Ronnie James Dio had played in Elf before he joined Rainbow. He died of cancer in 2010.

Cozy Powell had played in several band before Rainbow and recorded with The Jeff Beck Group and Bedlam in the beginning of the 70's. He died in a carcrash in England while driving intoxicated, overspeeding and speaking on the mobilephone.

Tony Carey was born in USA and has played with several artist after Rainbow. He also has released many soloalbums.

1)Tarot woman (8,5) After a long keyboardintro, a good midpace rocker with the distinctive singinh by Dio, nice guitarplaying and cool keyboardwork.

2)Run with the wolf (7,5) Slow but intense song. Good drumming and strong refrain but otherwise nothing special.

3)Starstruck (8,0) Melodic boogierocker with a good melody and refrain. The guitarsolos on the album aren't much to be happy at though.

4)Do you close your eyes (7,0) An okey song but with a boring refrain that goes on and on for tooo long.

5)Stargazer (7,0) A big-sounding hardrockclassic but I don't know... An okey song but it's too much of everything. The end of the song just goes on and on in pompous orchestralic keyboardplaying and singing. Features the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra.

6)A light in the black (8,0) Again Powell shows his abilities on drums. A true hardrockdrummer! The song is an uptempo rocker with good keyboard- and guitarsolos.

Score: 7,67

Ronnie James Dio (Ronnie James Padavona)-vocals (1942-2010)

Rickie Blackmoore-guitars (b.1945)

Jimmy Bain-bass (b.1947)

Cozy Powell (Colin Flooks)-drums (1947-1998)

Tony Carey-keyboards (b.1953)

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