Difficult to Cure is the fifth studio album by the British hard rock band, Rainbow, released in 1981. The album marked the further commercialization of the band's sound, with Ritchie Blackmore once describing at the time his appreciation of the band Foreigner.
The song "Spotlight Kid" was covered by the German power metal band Angel Dust for their album Border of Reality (1998). A live cover recorded by Finnish Stratovarius was released in their b-sides and rarities compilation Intermission.
The album artwork is designed by British graphic design company Hipgnosis. It was originally designed for the Black Sabbath album Never Say Die!, but was declined by the band.
The album material was started with singer Graham Bonnet still in the band, getting as far as recording an early version of "I Surrender", before Bonnet left the band due to his dissatisfaction over the material. American singer Joe Lynn Turner, formerly of Fandango was recruited and sang over already completed musical tracks. Turner stated that, because of this, he was singing in higher keys than he would do normally (and would do subsequently).
"I Surrender" would be the band's highest charting single in the UK, reaching No. 3.
The original 1981 LP and cassette releases had the title of the fifth track as "Vielleicht Das Nachster Zeit (Maybe Next Time)". This was a mis-translation from the German, which was corrected on later releases. However, the "corrected" version still contains multiple spelling errors, as the correct German for "Maybe Next Time" is "Vielleicht beim nächsten Mal".
The laughter at the end of the last track is a sample of Oliver Hardy. On the original LP, the laughter is an endless loop as it plays in the run-out groove, while on the CD it loops a few times before stopping.
A remastered CD reissue was released in May 1999, with packaging duplicating the original vinyl release.
Tracklist:
- I Surrender (Russ Ballard cover) 04:01
- Spotlight Kid 04:54
- No Release 05:33
- Magic 04:07
- Vielleicht das nachster Zeit (Maybe Next Time) 03:17
- Can't Happen Here 04:57
- Freedom Fighter 04:21
- Midtown Tunnel Vision 04:31
- Difficult to Cure (Beethoven's Ninth) 05:57
Time: 41:38
Track 1 by Russ Ballard.
Tracks 2, 6 by Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover.
Track 3 by Ritchie Blackmore, Don Airey.
Track 4 by Brian Morgan.
Track 5 by Ritchie Blackmore.
Tracks 7, 8 by Ritchie Blackmore, Joe Lynn Turner, Roger Glover.
Track 9 by Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. by Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Don Airey.
Videos were made for 'I Surrender', 'Spotlight Kid' and 'Can't Happen Here'.
In the lyric sheet, the title "Can't Happen Here" is in quotations unlike the other tracks, but the quotation marks aren't present on the back of the record jacket.
Recording information:
Recorded and mixed at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen / Kingdom Sound Studio.
Mastered at Sterling Sound.
Flemming Rasmussen – engineer
Thomas Brekling, Clay Hutchinson – assistant engineers
Greg Calbi – mastering
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