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Holy Diver - Live is a live album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Dio
Dio (band)
Dio was an American heavy metal band from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Formed in 1982 and led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio, after he left Black Sabbath with intentions to form a new band with fellow former Black Sabbath member, drummer Vinny Appice. Naming the band Dio made sense from a commercial...

 recorded on tour in 2005. On Disc 1, the band performs Holy Diver
Holy Diver
Holy Diver is the debut album from American heavy metal band Dio.-History:Released on May 25, 1983, the album has been hailed by critics as Dio's best work and a classic staple in the heavy metal genre. The album was eventually certified Gold in the US on September 12, 1984 and Platinum on March...

in it's entirety, while disc 2 contains live versions of other songs from Dio's back catalog. It was released in both CD and DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 formats.

Disc 1

  1. "Stand Up and Shout" (Ronnie James Dio
    Ronnie James Dio
    Ronald James Padavona , better known as Ronnie James Dio, was an American heavy metal vocalist and songwriter. He performed with, amongst others, Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, and his own band Dio, which means God in Italian. Other musical projects include the collective fundraiser...

    , Jimmy Bain
    Jimmy Bain
    James Stewart 'Jimmy' Bain is a Scottish bassist most famous for playing in the bands Rainbow and Dio with Ronnie James Dio. He has worked with Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott, co-writing on his solo albums....

    ) – 4:33
  2. "Holy Diver
    Holy Diver
    Holy Diver is the debut album from American heavy metal band Dio.-History:Released on May 25, 1983, the album has been hailed by critics as Dio's best work and a classic staple in the heavy metal genre. The album was eventually certified Gold in the US on September 12, 1984 and Platinum on March...

    " (Dio
    Ronnie James Dio
    Ronald James Padavona , better known as Ronnie James Dio, was an American heavy metal vocalist and songwriter. He performed with, amongst others, Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, and his own band Dio, which means God in Italian. Other musical projects include the collective fundraiser...

    ) – 4:46
  3. "Gypsy" (Dio, Vivian Campbell
    Vivian Campbell
    Vivian Patrick Campbell is a Northern Irish rock guitarist who is a member of Def Leppard and was, from May 2010 to November 2011, a member of Thin Lizzy. Prior to joining Def Leppard in April 1992, he had been a member of Whitesnake, Sweet Savage, Trinity, Riverdogs, and Shadow King...

    ) – 9:46
  4. "Caught in the Middle" (Dio, Vinny Appice
    Vinny Appice
    Vincent Samson Appice , also known as Vinny Appice is a rock drummer of American Italian descent and the younger brother of drummer Carmine Appice...

    , Campbell) – 4:51
  5. "Don't Talk to Strangers" (Dio) – 5:11
  6. "Straight Through the Heart" (Dio, Bain) – 4:37
  7. "Invisible" (Dio, Appice, Campbell) – 5:17
  8. "Rainbow in the Dark
    Rainbow in the Dark
    "Rainbow in the Dark" was the second single released by heavy metal band Dio, taken from their 1983 album, Holy Diver. It was numbered 13 on VH1's "Top 40 Greatest Metal Songs."...

    " (Dio, Appice, Bain, Campbell) – 4:46
  9. "Shame on the Night" (Dio, Appice, Bain, Campbell) – 16:58

Disc 2

  1. "Tarot Woman" (Ritchie Blackmore
    Ritchie Blackmore
    Richard Hugh "Ritchie" Blackmore is an English guitarist and songwriter, who was known as one of the first guitarists to fuse Classical music elements with rock. He fronted his own band Rainbow after leaving Deep Purple where he was unhappy because his favourite musical style wasn't adequately...

    , Dio) – 6:53
  2. "The Sign of the Southern Cross" (Geezer Butler
    Geezer Butler
    Geezer Butler is an English musician and songwriter. Butler is best known as the bassist and lyricist of heavy metal band Black Sabbath. He was also involved in Heaven & Hell from 2006 to 2010.-Career:Butler formed his first band, Rare Breed, with old friend John "Ozzy" Osbourne in the autumn of...

    , Dio, Tony Iommi
    Tony Iommi
    Anthony Frank "Tony" Iommi is an English guitarist and songwriter best known as the founding member of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and its sole continual member through multiple personnel changes.Iommi is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential guitarists in...

    )– 7:44
  3. "One Night in the City" (Dio, Appice, Bain, Campbell)– 6:10
  4. "Gates of Babylon" (Blackmore, Dio) – 8:23
  5. "Heaven and Hell
    Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath song)
    "Heaven and Hell" is the title track to Black Sabbath's ninth studio album, Heaven and Hell. It was written mainly by Tony Iommi, but as with almost all Black Sabbath albums, credit is given to the entire band. The lyrics were written entirely by then-newcomer Ronnie James Dio...

    " (Butler, Dio, Iommi, Bill Ward) – 11:25
  6. "Man on the Silver Mountain" (Blackmore, Dio) – 4:14
  7. "Long Live Rock 'N' Roll" (Blackmore, Dio) – 6:14
  8. "We Rock" (Dio) – 6:21

DVD Track listing

  1. "Tarot Woman"
  2. "The Sign of The Southern Cross"
  3. "One Night in the City"
  4. "Stand up and Shout"
  5. "Holy Diver"
  6. "Gypsy"
  7. "Caught in the Middle"
  8. "Don't Talk to Strangers"
  9. "Straight Through the Heart"
  10. "Invisible"
  11. "Rainbow in the Dark"
  12. "Shame on the Night"
  13. "Gates of Babylon"
  14. "Heaven and Hell"
  15. "Man on the Silver Mountain"
  16. "Long Live Rock and Roll"
  17. "We Rock"

Band

  • Ronnie James Dio
    Ronnie James Dio
    Ronald James Padavona , better known as Ronnie James Dio, was an American heavy metal vocalist and songwriter. He performed with, amongst others, Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, and his own band Dio, which means God in Italian. Other musical projects include the collective fundraiser...

     - vocals
  • Doug Aldrich
    Doug Aldrich
    Doug Aldrich , is a Los Angeles-based hard rock guitarist, since 2003 a member of Whitesnake. He founded the band Burning Rain with Keith St.John in 1998 and has played previously with the bands Dio, Lion, Hurricane, House of Lords, and Bad Moon Rising...

     - guitar
  • Scott Warren
    Scott Warren
    Scott Warren was the latest keyboardist for heavy metal band Dio and Heaven & Hell.Scott is a self taught keysman, he begin playing at age 6...

     - keyboards
  • Rudy Sarzo
    Rudy Sarzo
    Rudy Sarzo is a Cuban American hard rock/heavy metal bassist. Sarzo has played with many well known heavy metal acts including Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Manic Eden, Dio and Blue Öyster Cult.-Early life:...

     - bass
  • Simon Wright - drums
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