Down to Earth (Rainbow album)
1979 studio album by Rainbow
Down to Earth is the fourth studio album by the British hard rock band Rainbow. It is their last album to feature drummer Cozy Powell, their first with bassist Roger Glover and keyboardist Don Airey and their only album with vocalist Graham Bonnet, as well as their only album with an entirely British lineup. Released in 1979, it contains Rainbow's first hit single "Since You Been Gone", marking a more commercial direction of the band's sound.
Writing and recording
The writing of Down to Earth began at Ritchie Blackmore's house in Connecticut in January 1979. By that time, he had dismissed both bassist Bob Daisley and keyboardist David Stone before singer Ronnie James Dio quit the band. Blackmore had already recruited his old Deep Purple bandmate Roger Glover as producer and started auditioning musicians for the vacant slots in the band, while songwriting progressed with Blackmore, Cozy Powell and session bassist Clive Chaman. The songs were largely written by Blackmore and Glover. "It was a great opportunity for me, and why should I bear a grudge? (about being dismissed from Purple in 1973) " recalled Glover. "I'm a huge Ritchie fan.
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