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  • ROCKTOBER: Halloween Special

    Finishing up the ROCTOBER 2025 sessions with a Halloween Special.

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  • Vital Signs is a 1984 album released by one of my all time favourite bands Survivor. I was a bit reluctant to buy the album because Survivor had changed singers, from Dave Bickler to Jimi Jamison. However it turned out to be one of their best albums. On it there was a track called “It’s

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  • Episode 2 of the Soft side of Rock N Roll, is goin to be a double bill. Love Is All-Roger Glovers and Guests “Love Is All” is a 1974 pop song, credited to Roger Glover & Guests in the credits, but in reality sung by American heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio. It was featured

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  • Rainbow is without a doubt one of Heavy Metal’s superbands, Founded by Deep Purple’s Richie Blackmore. In this line up the band had Ronnie James Dio as the leader singer. “Catch the Rainbow” is by far their best song. Yet another highlight from Rainbow’s debut album, the song is about a small, but weird, love

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  • Ronnie James Dio said the lyrics are about a Christ figure on another planet who sacrifices himself to redeem his people. When the people learn that he intends to leave them to save people on other planets, they selfishly ask him to stay. [Intro]Mhhh-hm-hmmYeah, yeah [Verse 1]Holy DiverYou’ve been down too long in the midnight

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  • ROCKTOBER-Love is all

    When you hear “Love is all” you are probably more reminded of something the Beatles may have done rather then a bunch of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal artists. Yet that is exactly who were involved in the creation of this beautiful, colourful even fairytale like tale and melody. The song was released in 1974

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  • If Elvis is the King of Rock and Roll, and if Michael Jackson is the King of Pop, then surely Ronnie James Dio must be the King of Heavy Metal. Not only was he the front man in bands like Rainbow, Black Sabbath,Dio and Heaven & Hell, he is also the one who popularized the

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