Customer Ratings & Reviews

This album sounds like what would happen if Dio became the lead singer for Deep Purple and it's awesome.

Just a strong album from top to bottom. Such talented musicians. To bad Blackmore is such a nut he has ruined to many great lineups!!

Good price, great music, old school with Ronnie James Dio and Richie Blackmore

Great cd , one of the best early Ronnie James Dio cd's....

dio is in this band before going on his own awesome

Rainbow's second album is also their greatest... granted only the first three are worth listening to at all. The first was good, but the musicians behind Blackmore and Dio weren't quite up to par. With Rising, Blackmore recruited drumming master Cozy Powell and bassist Jimmy Bain to record their finest album. "Stargazer" is quite possibly the greatest song Dio has ever performed on and has one of the greatest drum intro's ever recorded. It's too bad that Dio would leave the band after their next album because Blacmore wanted to become more commercial (a bit ironic since he left Deep Purple for the same reason Dio left Rainbow). After Long Live Rock n Roll (another fine album) Rainbow became a rather lame band while Dio would go on to join Black Sabbath and eventually form his own band with fellow Rainbow bandmate Jimmy Bain.