Editing Difficult to Cure (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Difficult to Cure
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Rainbow (rock band)|Rainbow]]
| cover      = Difficult to cure.jpg
| border     = yes
| alt        =
| caption    = Cover design by [[Hipgnosis]]
| released   = 9 February 1981<ref>{{cite magazine|date=17 January 1981|title=News|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/81/Record-Mirror-1981-01-17-OCR.pdf|magazine=[[Record Mirror]]|page=2|access-date=23 August 2022}}</ref>
| recorded   =
| studio     = {{ubl|[[Sweet Silence Studios]], Copenhagen, Denmark|Kingdom Sound Studios, Long Island, New York}}
| genre      = [[Hard rock]]
| length     = 42:53
| label      = [[Polydor]]
| producer   = [[Roger Glover]]
| prev_title = [[Down to Earth (Rainbow album)|Down to Earth]]
| prev_year  = 1979
| next_title = [[Jealous Lover]]
| next_year  = 1981
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Difficult to Cure
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[I Surrender (Rainbow song)|I Surrender]]
 | single1date = {{start date|1981|1|23|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite journal|title=News|journal=[[Record Mirror]]|date=17 January 1981|page=2|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/57779449@N02/49796420166/in/album-72157713964078301/|via=flickr.com|access-date=14 December 2020}}</ref>
 | single2     = Can't Happen Here
 | single2date = 12 June 1981<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1981/Music-Week-1981-06-13.pdf|title=Music Week}}</ref>
 | single3     = Magic
 | single3date = 1981 <small>(Japan)</small>
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/difficult-to-cure-mw0000191534 | title = Rainbow Difficult to Cure review | access-date = 2013-12-11 | last = Erlewine | first = Stephen Thomas | author-link = Stephen Thomas Erlewine | work = [[AllMusic]] | publisher = [[All Media Network]]}}</ref>
| rev2 =''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
| rev2Score = 6/10<ref name="martin" >{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | author-link1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties | publisher = [[Collector's Guide Publishing]] | date = November 1, 2005 | location = [[Burlington, Ontario]], [[Canada]] | isbn = 978-1-894959-31-5 | page=279}}</ref>
| noprose = yes
}}

'''''Difficult to Cure''''' is the fifth studio album by the British [[hard rock]] band [[Rainbow (rock band)|Rainbow]], and it was released in 1981. It was the first album to feature drummer [[Bobby Rondinelli]] and vocalist [[Joe Lynn Turner]] after the departures of [[Cozy Powell]] and [[Graham Bonnet]] respectively, following the tour in support of ''[[Down to Earth (Rainbow album)|Down to Earth]]''. The album marked the continuing commercialization of the band's sound, with [[Ritchie Blackmore]] once describing at the time his appreciation of the band [[Foreigner (band)|Foreigner]].<ref>{{cite journal | title = Hotter Than July | journal = [[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]] | date = 25 July 1981 | first = Pete | last = Makowski | pages = 14, 15, 48| url = http://ritchieblackmoresrainbow.wordpress.com/sounds-july-25-1981/ | access-date = 2013-12-11}}</ref> It became the band's highest-charting album on the [[UK Albums Chart]], where it peaked at number three.