Rainbow – Bent Out Of Shape(1983)

Biography
Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow or Blackmore’s Rainbow) are a British rock band led by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, active from 1975 to 1984, from 1993 to 1997, and from 2015 to the present. They were originally established with Ronnie James Dio’s American rock band Elf, but after their first album, Blackmore fired the backing members and continued with Dio until 1979. Three British musicians joined in 1979—singer Graham Bonnet, keyboardist Don Airey and then-former Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover—and this line-up gave the band their commercial breakthrough with the single “Since You Been Gone”. Over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up. Other lead singers Joe Lynn Turner and Doogie White would follow, and the project consisted of numerous backing musicians. A pioneer to power metal, the band’s early work primarily featured mystical lyrics with a neoclassical metal style, but went in a more streamlined, commercial direction following Dio’s departure from the group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_(rock_band)

Album & Cover
Bent Out of Shape is the seventh studio album released by the British hard rock band Rainbow. It was originally released in August 1983 as an LP and cassette. The cassette featured several longer edits compared to the vinyl version. It was recorded at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen in about 7 weeks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Out_of_Shape

The cover was designed using a technique called ‘slit-scan’. The slit-scan photography technique is a photographic and cinematographic process where a moveable slide, into which a slit has been cut, is inserted between the camera and the subject to be photographed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slit-scan_photography

Cover Location: Hipgnosis studio, London, UK.
Who Did What: Photography:Cover – Derek Burnett. Cover Design And Concept – Hipgnosis/STd.
Label: Mercury 815305-1 M-1(US), Polydor POLD5116(UK)
Source: Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art, The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue: Aubrey Powell

Tracklist

Credits
Bass, Percussion – Roger Glover
Drums – Chuck Bürgi
Engineer – Flemming Rasmussen, Nick Blagona
Engineer [Assistant] – Thomas Breckling
Guitar – Ritchie Blackmore
Keyboards – David Rosenthal
Mastered By – Greg Colbi
Producer – Roger Glover
Vocals – Joe Lynn Turner
Written-By – Turner (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B3, B5), Blackmore (tracks: A1 to B3, B5)