Difficult to Cure

Good vinyl with minor marks,  average cover with minor shelf wear. Includes lyric sheet.

Difficult to Cure is the fifth studio album by the British hard rock band, Rainbow, and was 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.^[3]

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).^[4]

"I Surrender" would be the band's highest charting single in the UK, reaching No. 3.^[5]

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.

A remastered CD reissue was released in May 1999, with packaging duplicating the original vinyl release.

Of the five musicians who play on this album, four of them have been members of Deep Purple at some point in their careers (with only Blackmore, Glover and Turner at the same time). Only drummer Bobby Rondinelli has never been a member of Deep Purple. Joe Lynn Turner joined the band in 1990 to replace Ian Gillan and only recorded one album, Slaves and Masters, before he was replaced by a returning Gillan. Don Airey would join the band in 2002, replacing former keyboardist Jon Lord, and has remained in the band since.