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Straight Between the Eyes is the sixth studio album by Rainbow, released in 1982. A remastered CD reissue, with packaging duplicating the original vinyl release, was released in May 1999. The band line-up was the same as had recorded the previous year’s Difficult to Cure album, with the exception of David Rosenthal, who replaced Don Airey on keyboards. The title allegedly came from a phrase from Jeff Beck, describing Jimi Hendrix to Blackmore. In an April 1982 interview with British Rock magazine Kerrang!, Blackmore stated of “MISS Mistreated”, “Well it’s to avoid confusion that the ‘Miss’ is written three times bigger than the ‘mistreated’ but I expect we’ll have someone who shall remain nameless coming up to us saying ‘I wrote that song’!“ (That someone... Read on...