1981 was a big year for Rainbow. With new lead singer Joe Lynn Turner, Ritchie Blackmore’s post-Deep Purple band began its most commercially successful era with an album and EP release within months. One of the standout songs from that period was "Jealous Lover."
A B-side to the song “Can’t Happen Here,” "Jealous Lover" featured a gritty guitar riff and lyrics about mistrust in a relationship. Written by Blackmore and Turner, the song was inspired by an argument the two had while on tour, which led to Turner recalling an argument he'd just had with his girlfriend.
“I had this huge row with my girlfriend who was just accusing me of everything on the road,” Turner was quoted as saying in the book Black Knight: The Ritchie Blackmore Story. “I just felt it was an incomplete abomination of our relationship, so I wrote this lyric ‘Jealous Lover’ in about five minutes, complete with ‘eyes of green, seas of red’ and all this kind of thing. And it just came to me very quickly.”
Turner added that he laid down the vocals to the song in one take.
“And that was it, and we never looked back,” he shared. “The next thing we know, this ‘Jealous Lover’ song came through everything and became bigger than the A side.”
“Jealous Lover” became a rock radio favorite, hitting No. 13 on Billboard’s Rock Albums & Top Tracks chart after its release as the title track to the 1981 EP.
Turner explained the song’s broader meaning in an interview. “There is a lot of haters in the world, lot of jealous people, ‘Jealous Lovers,’ to use a phrase,” he said in an interview posted by My Global Mind. “That’s what that song's third verse was written about. It's about people; it's about one day they love you and the next day they don’t.”
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Turner once named “Jealous Lover” as one of his favorite Rainbow songs as he looked back on the band's chemistry in the early 1980s.
“We really had a run of luck, and when I say luck I mean we do get lucky when the chemistry's really happening, and our chemistry was really high for a couple of years, and we wrote some really impactful stuff,” he said, per Universal Wheels.
As for Blackmore, although Rainbow featured multiple lead singers over the years, the guitar legend appeared to have a soft spot for the era with Turner.
“Joe was the best singer we had in Rainbow, without a doubt,” Blackmore said in an interview published by Classic Rock magazine. “He was brilliant. On his ballads, no one could touch him, and his was the voice I was looking for.”
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