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1) A defunct UK hard rock band formed by “Deep Purple” founder and former guitarist Ritchie Blackmore in 1975. In addition to Blackmore, the band originally consisted of former “Elf” lead singer Ronnie James Dio, bassist Craig Gruber, drummer Gary Driscoll, and keyboardist Micky Lee Soule. Over the years Rainbow went through many lineup changes.
The Dio Years
The name of the band Rainbow was inspired by the “Rainbow Bar and Grill” that catered to rock stars, groupies and rock enthusiasts. It was here that Ritchie spent some of his off time from Deep Purple and met Dio, whose band Elf had toured regularly as an opening act for Deep Purple. Songfacts explains that Blackmore originally got together with Dio to record “
Black Sheep Of The Family” as a single, and it turned out so well they needed a B Side, but when the B Side was recorded, it turned out to be even better. This led to them recording an album, and to the formation of Rainbow. Rainbow’s debut album, “Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow”, was released in 1975 and featured the minor hit “
Man On The Silver Mountain”.Rainbow’s music was different from Deep Purple’s. The music was more directly inspired by classical music and Dio wrote lyrics about medieval themes. Dio possessed a versatile vocal range capable to sing both hard rock and lighter ballads. Although Dio never played a musical instrument on any Rainbow album, he is credited with writing and arranging the music with Blackmore in addition to writing all the lyrics himself.
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Anthology
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The Very Best of Rainbow
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heitorpas So underrated... :(
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calabocaindia All night long. :)
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msslayer I am surprised to see that A Light In The Black is not among the most listened songs. The piece is one of the best songs, if not THE best one from Rainbow.
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Killed-By-Death R.I.P. Ronnie! Still I'm sad...
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It's good to see a cheesy song like Stone Cold not appearing in the top charts
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Slamic4 DIO FOREVER!
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Marty_Sexx Turner !!!
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MikeySchenker Just notoced in the "Tracks" section a song called: "Brokeback Mountain (Soft remix)"!? So I guess there is a Hardcore version?
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azachel First two albums are great! Good band !
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Hiddos This band. Is awesome.
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NoahIsCool Their first 3 albums were amazing and some of the best hard rock albums of the decade. But I seriously felt they went to utter shit after Blackmore changed the band's vocalist and sound. At least Stranger in Us All wasn't as terrible as the stuff before it.
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TheJudasMaster Nah, Deep Purple is way better than this bullshit.
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IBrokeTheOath Except for Black Sabbath, this is better than anything Dio or Blackmore ever did without each other.
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Disposableher0 I SEE A RAINBOW RISING
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TheAeronauts RAINBOW EYES [2]
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chrisbuttery Street walking!
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r0x_666 Fantastic stuff ! :)
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FernandoVGP Stargazer
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TULLIANOFER RAINBOW EYES
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maidenmetal1 With Dio they were the best band in the world, hands down. [3] The best hard rock band for sure and no doubt Dio's era in Rainbow was his best part of the career
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DuMoH4uK tagged Rainbow with ‘hard rock’. Wednesday evening
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