Tag Archives: Roger Glover

Rainbow - down-to-earth-poster-1980

26/1/16 – Rainbow – Since You Been Gone – 1979 / Russ Ballard – Since You’ve Been Gone – Supersonic – 1976

When Metal bands aren’t scaring you with gravity defying clothing, blinding you with light shows that would shame the set designers from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind or guaranteeing that blood will pour from your ears treating you to deafness by the time your 25 – when they’re not insulting your intelligence with terrible lyrics or […]

The Butterfly Ball film cover art

11/12/14 – Roger Glover And Guests – The Butterfly Ball – 1974

A concept album and Rock Opera put together by Deep Purple’s Roger Glover based on the children’s poem The Butterfly Ball and Grasshopper’s Feast written by William Roscoe 1n 1802. It spawned Love Is All, a cheery song with a convincing vocal performance from Elf/Rainbow and future Black Sabbath singer Ronnie James Dio. The cover design […]