Given the less than compelling content seeping into the hard rock scene at the time, DIO’s The Last in Line was the right record at the right time when it was released on July 2nd, 1984 via Warner Bros. Records. Thirty-five years later, it’s still guaranteed to blister your backside like no other slab from that era.

Rock’n’roll god Ritchie Blackmore and his band Rainbow are releasing a second volume of live material Memories In Rock II on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.