SOMETIMES YOU NEVER FALL
AND AH,
YOU'RE THE LUCKY ONE
BUT OH,
SOMETIMES YOU WANT IT ALL
YOU'VE GOT TO
REACH FOR THE SUN
Sacred Heart
is the third
studio album
by American
Heavy Metal band
and the last
to feature guitarist
Vivian Campbell.
It was released on
August 12, 1985,
on Warner Bros. Records
in North America,
and Vertigo elsewhere.
The record peaked at
No. 29
on the
Billboard 200 chart.
It includes the singles
"Rock 'n' Roll Children"
and
"Hungry for Heaven".
Overview
Sacred Heart
was the final
Dio album
to include
original guitarist
Vivian Campbell,
who was fired
midway through
the album's tour.
Campbell went on to join
Whitesnake
and later
Def Leppard.
A serious rift
developed between
the guitarist
and vocalist
during the recording of
Sacred Heart,
with Dio
stating in an interview "
...for me,
(Campbell)
wasn't even there
for this record."
When the band
was formed,
Dio had made an
arrangement with
his new band
which saw them
paid very little,
but they were promised
a larger piece
of the pie
beginning with
their third album,
which ended up
being
Sacred Heart.
Campbell has maintained
over the years
that Dio
failed to follow through
on that promise,
and his unhappiness
with the situation
drove a wedge
between the two.
Dio
had recently separated
from his wife
and manager
Wendy Dio,
and Campbell has stated
that this personal turmoil
resulted in the
vocalist's demeanor
in the studio
becoming
"really, really dark"
during the recording of
Sacred Heart.
As a result,
the musicians were
uncomfortable
in the studio
and would typically
leave after recording
their parts,
and the band
began to fall apart.
The album,
along with
Holy Diver
and
The Last in Line,
was released in
a new
2-CD
Deluxe Edition
on March 19, 2012
through Universal
for worldwide distribution
outside the U.S.
Clocking in at
38 minutes,
Sacred Heart
is the band's
shortest album.
FINIS PER SOMNIVM REPERIO
TIBI SACRA COR
VENEFICVS OSTIVM AVRVM.
The cover art
is by
Robert Florczak.
The inscription
around the border
of the cover
is in Latin
and reads
FINIS PER SOMNIVM REPERIO
TIBI SACRA COR
VENEFICVS OSTIVM AVRVM.
A possible rendering is
Along the borders of dreams
I found for you
the sacred poisonous heart
and golden door.
More data
useful for
the interpretation
could be contained
within the lyrics
to the song
"Sacred Heart".
Since Latin
relies on
context for a translation
the inscription could
translate as follows,
"comes the end by sleep
I will prepare
the sacred heart
which is the
magic that opens
upon the altar".
* NOTES :
On The
Deluxe Edition
Looks Like They Gave
An Edited
Intermission
And The Live Tracks
Just Stop Abruptly
So I Just Faded Them Out..
Then I Just Added The Rest
* (Tracks Are Edited And Faded Out)
But You Do Get
The Track
Time To Burn
and The
Tracks From
The DIO EP
Also I Moved All The
Live Tracks Together
on
The Deluxe They
Were Separated
TRACKLIST
King Of Rock And Roll
Sacred Heart
Another Lie
Rock 'N' Roll Children
Hungry For Heaven
Like The Beat Of A Heart
Just Another Day
Fallen Angels
Shoot Shoot
CD 2
Hide In The Rainbow
(From The Dio EP)
Time To Burn
We Rock
(Live B-Side Of Rock 'n' Roll Children)
Last In Line
(Live B-Side Of Rock 'n' Roll Children)
Like The Beat Of A Heart
(Live B-Side Of Hungry For Heaven)
King of Rock N Roll
(Live)
Like a Beat of a Heart
(Live)
Rainbow in The Dark
(Live)
Hungry For Heaven
(Live)
Scared Heart
(Live)
Medley : Rock N Roll Children/
Long Live Rock N Roll/
Man on The Silver Mountain
(Live)
We Rock
(Live)
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