Rainbow - Rainbow [1975][2008][320 KBPS][RMSTD][SHM-CD Japanese UICY-93618]

Track Listings:

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01. Man On The Silver Mountain (Album Version)

02. Self Portrait

03. Black Sheep Of The Family

04. Catch The Rainbow (Album Version)

05. Snake Charmer

06. The Temple Of The King

07. If You Don't Like Rock 'N' Roll

08. Sixteenth Century Greensleeves

09. Still I'm Sad

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Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow or Blackmore's Rainbow) were a British rock band led by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1993 to 1997. They were originally established with American rock band Elf's members, but Blackmore fired all the members except Ronnie James Dio who would leave in 1979. Three British musicians joined in 1979, singer Graham Bonnet, keyboardist Don Airey, former Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover, and this line-up gave the band their commercial breakthrough with the single "Since You Been Gone". Over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up. Other lead singers Joe Lynn Turner and Doogie White would follow, and the project consisted of numerous backing musicians. The band started out combining mystical lyric themes with neoclassical metal, but went in a more streamlined commercial style following Dio's departure from the group.



Rainbow were ranked No. 90 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. The band has sold over 28 million albums worldwide and 4 million albums in the United States.

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Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (sometimes stylised Ritchie Blackmore's R-A-I-N-B-O-W) is the first album by British rock guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's solo band Rainbow, released in 1975.



The original vinyl release had a gate fold sleeve, although later budget reissues on Polydor reduced to a single sleeve. The album's songs have been performed by subsequent Rainbow line-ups.



The album was widely praised for its fantasy/heroic-like lyrical content and the innovative rock style.



Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow was re-issued on CD in remastered form in the US in April 1999. The European release followed later in the year.



Vocalist Ronnie James Dio considered this release his favourite Rainbow album.



Despite the title implying the record being a Ritchie Blackmore solo release, in later years Blackmore has jokingly stated that Dio's contributions warranted a re-titling of "Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio's Rainbow".

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Rainbow:



Ronnie James Dio: lead vocals

Ritchie Blackmore: guitar

Micky Lee Soule: piano, mellotron, clavinet, organ

Craig Gruber: bass

Gary Driscoll: drums



With:



Shoshana – backing vocals