Rainbow – Street of Dreams (1983)
Rainbow, the band formed by legendary Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore had a big hit in 1983 with “Street of Dreams”, from the album “Bent Out of Shape”. In the 1970s, Rainbow’s songs were characterized by medieval imagery (“The Man on the Silver Mountain”) and powered by pint-sized vocalist Ronnie James Dio. Tensions between Blackmore and Dio led to Dio jumping ship to go solo in 1979, and Rainbow went in a decidedly more AOR direction. Joe Lynn Turner added his soulful vocal skills to several early-80s albums that were geared to the Mainstream Rock charts before Rainbow disbanded. Hits included “I Surrender”, “Stone Cold”, and “Street of Dreams”, which hit #2 on the Mainstream Rock chart and #60 on the Pop Singles chart.

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