Ritchie Blackmore and the Rainbow 1983 line-up was back on America’s bestseller list on October 1. Their seventh album Bent Out Of Shape, produced by Roger Glover, entered the Billboard 200 charts. It debuted fueled by the momentum of great American rock radio success with the first single “Street Of Dreams”, written by Blackmore and singer Joe Lynn Turner.
Bent Out Of Shape had been ranked two weeks earlier in the UK, entering and peaking at # 11, and went on to become one of the band’s top ten Scandinavian Stronghold albums, at # 6 in Sweden and Norway. In the United States, this Oct. 1 chart saw the album make its first appearance at a modest No.181, although it’s interesting to note that at this time, records rarely made their chart debut in the United States. United States and the first new entry on this week’s chart. was Linda Ronstadt’s What’s Up at # 93. The police ruled the roost with the Synchronicity Album, and Bent Out Of Shape then reached 34th place, in 21 weeks.
The album’s two UK singles, “Street Of Dreams” and “Can’t Let You Go” (the latter accompanied by a live version of Rainbow’s “All Night Long” in 1980), both peaked. outside of the Top 40. Bent Out Of Shape was at the commercial end of Ritchie Blackmore’s work, but as he told Stuart Grundy and John Tobler in their 1983 book The Guitar Greats, it never did. was his motivation. “I will remain as stubborn as I always have been,” said the guitarist, “and with enough time and patience, I could come up with something worthwhile somewhere along the line.
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“I have the ambition of a slug, and I’m not interested in goals of any kind, and that’s why I don’t hang out in the right places and talk to the right people and don’t do them. good things, probably, ”Blackmore continued. “The only way I can do some things that seem to be right is because I feel like it’s inside of me – I like to play guitar, but I don’t like to be involved in everything that’s going on. with the company. ”
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