Joe Lynn Turner

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Joe Lynn Turner (born Joseph Arthur Mark Linn, 1951) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and producer.

He is best known for his appearances in the hard rock bands Rainbow, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, and Deep Purple.

Turner played guitar with pop rock band Fandango in the late 1970s, and later became a member of Rainbow, fronting the band and recording songs with guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and bassist Roger Glover.

Since Rainbow broke apart (for the first time) in March 1984, he pursued a solo career, released one album, Rescue You, and then did session recording, singing background vocals for Billy Joel, Cher, and Michael Bolton.

Turner started recording jingles for radio and television on Bolton's instructions.

International recording artists Jimmy Barnes, Lee Aaron, and Bonfire performed some songs he had created or through collaboration with songwriters such as Desmond Child and Jack Ponti.

Turner had a brief stint with neoclassical metal guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen and then Deep Purple, before moving to Deep Purple.

He returned to his solo career in the mid-1990s, releasing an additional nine studios and two live recordings.

Turner appeared on tribute albums and consulting on projects involving various musical groups, including progressive rock band Mother's Army; Bulgarian hard rock band Brazen Abbot; and classic rock/ progressive rock band Rated X. Frontiers Records invited Turner to join the AOR side of the Sunstorm project in 2006.

By 2016, four albums under the Sunstorm brand had been released.

Turner released The Sessions via Cleopatra Records in 2009, a realist who's who of classic rock royalty as guest artists, before resuming his seemingly regular touring schedule in Europe.

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Career

In the 1960s, Turner first became interested in music. He grew up in an Italian-American household, inspired by singers like Frank Sinatra and Enrico Caruso. He formed Ezra, a high-school band, which performed original material and cover songs. He began playing the accordion as a youth and learned the guitar in his early teens. He was once influenced by artists like Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, and Free.

Turner formed Fandango, a rock band that debuted on RCA Records in 1977. Turner appeared on the band's four albums and played guitar. Many artists, including The Allman Brothers Band, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Beach Boys, and Billy Joel performed on Fandango.

Ritchie Blackmore, a British guitarist, called him after the Fandango break. Turner was immediately enlisted in Rainbow after an audition, and he was enlisted in Rainbow. Although the band was well-known in Europe and Japan, it was not as popular in the United States as it did not have the same success. Turner added a pop influence to the band, and Rainbow became a hit in the United States. Several tracks from Turner's albums made it to the top 20 on rock radio charts from the 1980s to the mid-1980s. Rainbow's first Top 40 hit, "Stone Cold," became Rainbow's first Top 40 hit, and the band's videos were on heavy rotation on MTV. Turner released three studio albums with Rainbow: Difficult to Cure, Straight Between the Eyes, and Bent Out of Shape, which included the single "Street of Dreams." In 1984, Rainbow disbanded.

Turner released Rescue You, a solo album made by Roy Thomas Baker, who is best known for his friendship with King and The Cars, in 1985, after Rainbow's demise. Al Greenwood, a keyboardist, co-wrote most of the songs with keyboardist Al Greenwood (Foreigner). On radio and MTV, the first single, "Endlessly," received a lot of airplay. Night Ranger and Pat Benatar's tours, as well as an acting part in the TV film Blue Deville sequel, were followed.

Turner contributed backing vocals to Michael Bolton's album, The Hunger, in 1987. He appeared on "Hot Love" and "Gina" tracks.

He appeared in Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force (1987) and recorded the album Odyssey that year (1987). A concert in Leningrad was recorded and later released as Trial by Fire (1989). He left the band later this year.

Turner was asked to join both Bad Company and Foreigner, but he chose Deep Purple instead. Slaves and Masters (1990) by Turner on one album. The album reached No. 61. Turner joined the band in late 1992 and spent 87 on the Billboard Charts, with a brief tour following in 1991. He has also released three albums for the progressive rock band Mother's Army, which includes Jeff Watson, Bob Daisley, and Carmine Appice.

Turner spent his time in the mid-1990s to 2008, mostly as a solo artist, after his stints with Rising Force and Deep Purple. Turner also released nine studio albums and two live albums during that period to go along with his 1985 release, Rescue You.

He also worked with Brazen Abbot, led by Bulgarian guitarist Nikolo Kotzev. Turner produced or co-wrote his songs on four studio albums, including Eye of the Storm (1996); Bad Religion (1997); and My Resurrection (2005). Turner appeared in "The Narrator" in Nikolo Kotzev's Nostradamus in 2001. Turner appeared in Bulgaria for the bulk of the band's live shows. Turner appears on the 2005 documentary style/live performance DVD release, A Decade of Brazen Abbot, as well as the 2015 studio/live compilation of 20 Years of Brazen Abbot.

Glenn Hughes, a former Trapeze and Deep Purple bassist, was one of Turner's first to perform some live dates in Japan in support of his sixth solo album, Holy Man. The pair began the Hughes Turner Project in 2001. Between 2001 and 2003, the collaboration resulted in two studio albums (HTP and HTP2) and a live album (Live in Tokyo). Hughes and Turner also collaborated on the Russian studio project Michael Men Project's album Made in Moscow in 2005.

In the Season 1, Episode 29 episode Between the Lions and Cubs, Between the Lions, hosted his vocal on the song "Clobbered." "Very Loud, Very Big, Very Metal," was also featured on this album.

Turner performed a special version of the Rainbow songs with the New Japan Philharmonic at the Metropolitan Art Space in Tokyo, Japan, on August 4, 2006. Turner unveiled the first album for Frontiers Records AOR project Sunstorm in September 2006, with bassist Dennis Ward of German rock band Pink Cream 69 under the name, Sunstorm starring Joe Lynn Turner. Sunstorm's subgenre was released in subsequent years.

Turner appeared in the Voices of Classic Rock shows as a guest performer.

Turner appeared on the Classic Rock Cares charity tour in 2007, which was also promoted by longtime friend Steve Luongo, who was the drummer/producer of The John Entwistle Band.

Turner formed Over the Rainbow in 2008, a tribute band made up of former Rainbow artists, including drummer Bobby Rondinelli, bassist Greg Smith, keyboardist Paul Morris, and Ritchie Blackmore's eldest son, Jürgen on guitar.

He was also a member of the touring band Big Noize from 2008 to 2012. Turner, guitarist Carlos Cavazo, bassist Phil Soussan, and drummer Vinny Appice were among the band members. The band travelled to Iraq and Kuwait to entertain Multi National Forces in the fall of 2008. Appice was temporarily canceled due to Simon Wright, a drummer, who had to cancel due to other touring commitments.

He and the Legends Voice of Rock performed a gig at the Golden Times Festival in Degerfors, Sweden, in the summer of 2012.

In 2013, he appeared in a few songs as a guest on Avantasia's album The Mysterious of Time, which was released in March.

Turner appeared as a special guest artist on the Las Vegas show Raiding the Rock Vault, which took place in March and April 2013.

Rated X is a band that appeared on Front Page in 2014. Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge, The Firm's bassist Tony Franklin, and guitarist Karl Cochran led the band.

In the final of X Factor Bulgaria's third season, Turner appeared as a guest singer alongside champion Slavin Slavchev on February 9, 2015. "Street of Dreams" was a song performed by the two performers.

Turner was extensively interviewed for author Greg Prato's book The Other Side of Rainbow in 2016 and is also included on the book's front page.

Turner appeared on Michael Schenker Group's album Immortal in 2021.

Turner has received accolades and distinction from around the world in recent years. He was named Cultural Ambassador to Bulgaria in 2015. He was given the Legends of Rock Award in Italy and the Peacemaker Award in Crimea for the promotion of peace and outstanding contribution to World Art in the same year. He was also named Man of the Golden Voice Award in Peru in 2016.

Turner's first single and title track off the new studio album, "Belly Of The Beast," on August 25, 2022. He went public with being diagnosed with alopecia totalis at the age of just three and having to wear a wig until age 14 to hide his hair loss.

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