RAINBOW: Street of dreams 7″ + Anybody There. Check video

Description

Street of Dreams is a song by the English hard rock band Rainbow. The song was the first single from the bands Bent Out of Shape album, on which the band tried to repeat their previous success with their album Straight Between the Eyes and the single “Stone Cold”. As a result Bent Out of Shape and “Street of Dreams” are usually considered to be more in the album-oriented rock style, instead of the hard rock sound of earlier Rainbow albums. The album was particularly aimed at the US market.
Ritchie Blackmore has stated that “Street of Dreams” is one of his favorite Rainbow-songs.

Music video:
A music video was also made for the song and was directed by Storm Thorgerson. The video opens with a woman being gagged, strapped to a chair and being locked in a closet by a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist closes the closet door, before he takes the womans boyfriend, named Mark, in as patient. Mark tells the psychiatrist about a dream hes been having. In the dream theres a street full of beds, and a rock n’ roll band plays a song in a basement, while Mark is by a lake, seeing his girlfriend being kidnapped, as in real life. The evil psychiatrist suggests that he’d hypnotise Mark. Mark agrees and he soon falls a sleep and the song starts playing while we see everything that Mark described come true. Soon Mark starts waking up by the sound of his girlfriend kicking the closet door. Mark pushes the psychiatrist aside and frees his girlfriend. As the two flee, the psychiatrist tries to stop them, but Mark knocks him out, and in the last scene we see the psychiatrist falling to the same lake as in Marks dream.
According to Blackmores biography on his official website, the music video for “Street of Dreams” was banned by MTV for its supposedly controversial hypnotic video clip. However, Dr. Thomas Radecki of the National Coalition on Television Violence criticized MTV for airing the video, which would contradict Blackmores claim.

B-side: “Anybody There”,
Released: 1983
Format: 7″ single,
Genre: Hard rock
Length: 4:28
Label Polydor,
Writer(s): Ritchie Blackmore, Joe Lynn Turner
Producer: Roger Glover

Personnel:
Ritchie Blackmore – guitar
David Rosenthal – keyboard
Roger Glover – bass, percussion
Chuck Burgi – drums
Joe Lynn Turner – vocals [The best thing about picking a best Rainbow singer is that there is no wrong answer!]

I heard the sound of voices in the night
Spellbound there was someone calling
I looked around no one was in sight
Pulled down I just kept on falling
Ive seen this place before
You were standing by my side
Ive seen your face before tonight
Maybe I just see what I want it to be
I know its a mystery
Do you remember me on a street of dreams
Running through my memory
On the street of dreams

There you stood a distant memory
So good like we never parted
Said to myself I knew you’d set me free
And here we are right back where we started
Something come over me
And I don’t know what to feel
Maybe this fantasy is real
Now I know I see what I want it to be
But its still a mystery

Do you remember me on the street of dreams
Running through my memory
On the street of dreams
You are on every face I see
On the street of dreams

Solo

Tell me have you always been
On the street of dreams
Will we ever meet again my friend
Do you know just what it meant to be
On the street of dreams
Never know just who you’ll see do ya
On the street of dreams
You can be who you want to be oh yeah
I can hear you calling me
I can feel you haunting me
Haunting me