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Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (1975)

1. Man On The Silver Mountain 2. Self Portrait 3. Black Sheep Of The Family 4. Catch The Rainbow 5. Snake Charmer 6. The Temple Of The King 7. If You Dont Like Rock N Roll 8. Sixteenth Century Greensleeves 9. Still Im Sad

Other Songs 16th Century Greensleeves A Light in the Black Again Someday All Because Of You All for One All Night Long Anybody There Ariel Avalon Bad Girl Be Mine Tonight Benzai-Ten Black Masquerade Bring On The Night Bring on the Night (Dream Chaser) Call It Love Cant Happen Here Can't Help Falling in Love Cant Let You Go Cartouche Castles and Dreams Catherine Howard's Fate Clock Ticks On Cold Hearted Woman Crowning Of The King Dance to the Bop Dandelion Wine Danger Zone Darkness Death Alley Driver Desperate Heart Diamonds and Rust Difficult to Cure Do You Close Your Eyes Drinking With The Devil Empty Words Eyes Of Fire Eyes Of The World Faerie Queen-Faerie Dance Far Far Away Fire Dance Fires At Midnight Fool For The Night Fool's Gold Freedom Fighter Gates Of Babylon Ghost of a Rose Gilded Cage God Save the Keg Gone With the Wind Greensleeves Hall Of The Mountain King Hanging Tree Highway Star Hold On Home Again Honey Hush Hunting Humans Hunting Humans (Insatiable) I Guess It Doesn't Matter Anymore I Still Remember I Surrender I Surrender Dear If You Dont Like Rock and Roll Ivory Tower Jealous Lover Just Call My Name (I'll Be There) Kill The King L.A. Connection Lady Of The Lake Light In The Black Living Wreck Locked Within the Crystal Ball Lonely Long Live Rock N Roll Long Live RocknRoll Loreley Lost In Hollywood Love's No Friend Magic Magical Word Make Your Move Makin' Love Man On The Silver Mountain/Blues/Starstruck March the Heroes Home Mid Winter's Night Midtown Tunnel Vision Miss Mistreated Mistreated Mond Tanz/Child in Time Morning Star No No No No Release No Second Chance No Time to Lose Now and Then Ocean Gypsy Olde Mill Inn Once in a Million Years Over the Rainbow Past Time With Good Company Peasant's Promise Play Minstrel Play Power Rainbow Blues Rainbow Eyes Renaissance Faire Rock Fever Run With The Wolf Say Sensitive To Light Shadow of the Moon Silence Since You Been Gone Since Youve Been Gone Sister Gypsy Smoke on the Water Snowman Soldier of Fortune Spanish Nights (I Remember It Well) Speed King Spirit of the Sea Spotlight Kid St. Teresa Stand And Fight Stargazer Starstruck Stone Cold Storm Stranded Street Of Dreams Tarot Woman Tearin Out My Heart Temple of the King The Circle The Clock Ticks On The Shed The Shed (Subtle) The Times They Are A Changin' Tite Squeeze Toast to Tomorrow Too Late For Tears Under a Violet Moon Village Lanterne Village On The Sand Waiting Just For You Way to Mandalay Weiss Heim Where Are We Going From Here Windmills Wish You Were Here Wolf To The Moon Wonderworld World of Stone Writing on the Wall Written In The Stars

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Rainbow Info:

Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow or Blackmore's Rainbow) are a British rock band formed in Hertford in 1975 by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. Established in the aftermath of Blackmore's first departure from Deep Purple, they originally featured four members of the American rock band Elf, including their singer Ronnie James Dio, but after their self-titled debut album, Blackmore fired these members, except Dio, recruiting drummer Cozy Powell, bassist Jimmy Bain, and keyboardist Tony Carey. This line-up recorded the band's second album Rising (1976), while Long Live Rock 'n' Roll (1978) saw Bob Daisley and David Stone replace Bain and Carey, respectively. Long Live Rock 'n' Roll was also the last album with Dio before he left the band to join Black Sabbath in 1979.

Rainbow's early work primarily used mystical lyrics with a hard rock/heavy metal style, then went in a more pop-rock oriented direction following Dio's departure from the group. In 1979, Blackmore and Powell revamped the group, recruiting three new members—singer Graham Bonnet, keyboardist Don Airey and another then-former Deep Purple member, bassist Roger Glover—and this line-up gave the band their commercial breakthrough with the single "Since You Been Gone" from their fourth studio album Down to Earth. With Joe Lynn Turner, who replaced Bonnet in 1980, Rainbow recorded three more albums—Difficult to Cure (1981), Straight Between the Eyes (1982) and Bent Out of Shape (1983)—that had commercial success similar to the band's previous albums. Other members of the band during this period were drummers Bobby Rondinelli and Chuck Burgi and keyboardist David Rosenthal. The band split in 1984, when Blackmore and Glover re-joined Deep Purple. In 1993, after leaving Deep Purple for a second time, Blackmore reformed Rainbow with a new line-up, fronted by a then-unknown Doogie White, which recorded their eighth and last studio album to date Stranger in Us All (1995). Blackmore's change in direction, from rock to Renaissance and medieval-influenced music, led to Rainbow's second dissolution in 1997. He revived the band once again in 2015, and they performed live occasionally within the next few years.

Over the years Rainbow went through many personnel changes, with each studio album recorded with a different line-up, leaving Blackmore as the band's only constant member. Their longest serving lineup—which featured Blackmore on guitar, Blackmore's wife Candice Night on backing vocals, Ronnie Romero on lead vocals, Bob Nouveau on bass, David Keith on drums and Jens Johansson on keyboards—lasted from 2015 to 2023, when Romero announced his departure from the band.

Rainbow were ranked No. 90 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. The band have sold over 28 million records worldwide.

Also Known As: Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Blackmore's Rainbow
Members:
Ritchie Blackmore - guitar (1975-1984, 1993-1997, 2015-present)
Candice Night - backing vocals (1994-1997, 2015-present)
Jens Johansson - keyboards (2015-present)
Bob Nouveau - bass, backing vocals (2015-present)
David Keith - drums (2015-present)
From: Hertford, England, UK
Genre(s): Hard rock, heavy metal, arena rock, progressive rock
Active From: 1975-1984,1993-1997,2015-present

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