Meltdown's Vinyl Frontier: March 1, 2023

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00:00It's another installment of Vinyl Frontier, brought to you by Dearborn Music in Farmington and Dearborn.

00:05A sound choice for every generation of music fan.

00:08Today we're going back to 1983.

00:10The singer left a massive band and put out his first solo album, and it was a huge success.

00:19Ronnie James Dio's Holy Diver came out in 1983.

00:22This is actually the very copy I owned as just a wee little meltdown.

00:26I mean really, stand up and shout.

00:28Holy Diver, invisible, straight through the heart, and who could forget Rainbow in the Dark with the guitar work of Vivian Campbell.

00:35Right after leaving Black Sabbath, Ronnie James Dio didn't know what he was going to do.

00:38What did he do? He put out a masterpiece.

00:41Dio's Holy Diver is this week's Vinyl Frontier installment.