Difficult to Cure

Difficult to Cure
Cover design by Hipgnosis
Studio album by
Rainbow
Released9 February 1981[1]
Studio
GenreHard rock
Length42:53
LabelPolydor
ProducerRoger Glover
Rainbow chronology
Down to Earth
(1979) 		Difficult to Cure
(1981) 		Jealous Lover
(1981)
Singles from Difficult to Cure
  1. "I Surrender"
    Released: 23 January 1981 (1981-01-23)[2]
  2. "Can't Happen Here"
    Released: 12 June 1981[3]
  3. "Magic"
    Released: 1981 (Japan)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal6/10[5]

Difficult to Cure is the fifth studio album by the British hard rock band Rainbow, and it was released in 1981. It was the first album to feature Bobby Rondinelli on drums and Joe Lynn Turner on lead vocals after the departures of Cozy Powell and Graham Bonnet respectively, following the release of Down to Earth. The album marked the continuing commercialization of the band's sound, with Ritchie Blackmore once describing at the time his appreciation of the band Foreigner.[6] It became the band's highest-charting album on the UK Albums Chart, where it peaked at number three.

  1. ^ "News" (PDF). Record Mirror. 17 January 1981. p. 2. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  2. ^ "News". Record Mirror: 2. 17 January 1981. Retrieved 14 December 2020 – via flickr.com.
  3. ^ "Music Week" (PDF).
  4. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Rainbow Difficult to Cure review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
  5. ^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 279. ISBN 978-1-894959-31-5.
  6. ^ Makowski, Pete (25 July 1981). "Hotter Than July". Sounds: 14, 15, 48. Retrieved 11 December 2013.