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  Dio - The Last in Line (CD)

ORIGINAL 1987 CD ATLANTIC RELEASE!!!
AAD recording format

Used CD in GREAT PLAYING CONDITION!!!

Includes CD and all Inserts!!!
CD may have Superficial Scratches that doesn't effect play.
Jewel Case and Inserts have normal wear.

Former Rainbow and Black Sabbath lead singer Ronnie James Dio has also had a successful solo career. His second solo effort, The Last In Line, just plain rocks. He picked up right where he left off after the success of Holy Diver.

The album opens with We Rock. Great vocals, drumming and guitar. My personal favorite track is the title track, The Last In Line. It's so heavy and powerful. It just plain rocks all the way. Great lyrics, too. The song I Speed At Night is no doubt a drug song (LSD), but it rocks like crazy and is very fast. Great song. Evil Eyes sounds like an old Deep Purple or Rainbow tune. The hit Mystery has a great melody, like most hits do, of course. The song Egypt (The Chains Are On) is slower than other songs, but still rocks with classic Dio attitude.

I highly recommend this album. Ronnie James Dio is one of the greatest hard rock singers of all time, right up there with Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne, Ian Gillan, Rob Halford, Bruce Dickinson, and Tony Martin. If you wanna rock, buy this album.

Track listing
1. We Rock
2. Last in Line
3. Breathless
4. I Speed at Night
5. One Night in the City
6. Evil Eyes
7. Mystery
8. Eat Your Heart Out
9. Egypt (The Chains Are On)

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 25, 1987)
• Original Release Date: 1984
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea

Dio Biography

For a brief spell during the mid-'80s, the heavy metal quintet Dio was one of the top U.S. concert attractions, boasting one of the most over-the-top stage acts of its time loaded with props and special effects (lasers, explosions, a giant dragon, etc.). The group's leader was singer Ronnie James Dio, who had previously become acquainted with the metal masses as the frontman of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow from 1975-1978 and Black Sabbath from 1979-1982. Come the early '80s, Ronnie James was ready to finally head out on his own, forming Dio and recruiting a stellar backing band, consisting of a few former bandmembers, ex-Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain and ex-Black Sabbath drummer Vinny Appice (Carmine Appice's brother), in addition to ex-Sweet Savage guitar shredder Vivian Campbell. Lyrically, the group would retain the same subject matter that Ronnie James specialized in with his previous outfits (dungeons and dragons, swords and sorcery, damsels in distress, etc.), but musically, Dio was more melodically based than Rainbow or Sabbath. The group scored a hit right off the bat with their 1983 debut release, Holy Diver, which spawned such popular MTV videos as "Rainbow in the Dark," as well as its title track.

For their sophomore effort, 1984's The Last in Line, the band expanded its lineup to include keyboardist Claude Schnell, as the album would become the biggest hit of Dio's career (on the strength of another MTV-approved video, for the album's anthemic title track) and the group became an arena-headliner. Although Dio's next release, 1985's Sacred Heart, was commercially successful, Campbell had become disillusioned by the group's direction and split from the group a year later. Just prior to Campbell's exit, the entire Dio band helped organize Hear N' Aid, an all-star assembly of heavy metal artists that recorded a track called "Stars," which helped fight world hunger (a subsequent album was issued as well, collecting previously unreleased live tracks from a few of the day's top hard rock acts). Former Giuffria guitarist Craig Goldy took Campbell's place, resulting in such releases as 1986's live EP Intermission and 1987's Dream Evil, which retained the group's headbanging audience, but failed to expand upon it as its previous releases had.

By 1990's Lock up the Wolves, Ronnie James Dio was the only original member of Dio left in attendance as the band's lineup continued to fluctuate throughout the '90s on such releases as 1994's Strange Highways, 1996's Angry Machines, and 1998's Inferno: Last in Live (Ronnie James took a brief break from Dio in 1992 to rejoin Black Sabbath for a lone release, Dehumanizer). In 2000, a pair of Dio releases emerged; first was Dio's first new studio album in four years, the concept album Magica (which saw past members Bain and Goldy return to the group), as well as a 16-track compilation titled The Very Beast of Dio. His medieval-themed metal returned two years later, when the Killing the Dragon album arrived in the spring of 2002. The album was a serious endevor, but Dio also learned to make fun of his image after years of defending it, inviting comedy duo Tenacious D to star in the video for "Push" and even including the clip on the fall re-release of Killing the Dragon.

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