816 - Rainbow Starstruck 1976

"Starstruck" opens with one of Blackmore's most catchy riffs. This is easily the most Deep Purple-ish of the tracks on the album "Rising", with organ and vocals that could have come compliments of Jon Lord and Ian Gillan respectively.
Even when Dio departed the band to do a stint fronting Black Sabbath, Blackmore would take the group down a more commercial road, before the guitarist returned to Deep Purple. But all that was in the future, at the time it was released, "Rising" was an unconditional triumph.