RAISE YOUR FIST!

From page 52 of Classic Rock Magazine June 2011



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A big hand for the man behind the sleeve.

“The artwork was reflective of the audiences we played to,” Ritchie Blackmore says of the cover art for Rising . “They liked to raise their fists in the air.” The man given the job of creating a suitably grandiose sleeve for the album was Connecticut native Ken Kelly. A distant relative of pioneering fantasy painter Frank Frazetta, Kelly had previously done the artwork for Kiss’s Destroyer and Love Gun .

“They knew exactly what they wanted,” Kelly. “When I brought back the completed artwork, they just asked for two corrections.” The additions were an owl on the top of one of the cliffs in one corner and a guard in the corner, looking out to sea.

Kelly’s recent clients include Manowar and Coheed And Cambria. Visit Kenkellyart. com for more info.

DIO: ONE YEAR ON
THE LIGHT FANTASTIC






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