Graham Bonnet’s brief tenure with MSG is remembered as much for the farcical nature of his exit as for the great album he left behind. As he says: “I really made a fool of myself.”
He came to MSG with a big reputation. As the singer for Rainbow, his powerful voice had lit up their 1979 album Down To Earth and its two great hit singles: Since You Been Gone and All Night Long. After leaving Rainbow he had another hit as a solo artist with Night Games. “The funny thing,” he says, “is that I never wanted to be a heavy rock singer.”
