Rising

“Rising” is a hard rock album by Rainbow, released in 1976.

Rising has become known as the best album of Rainbow’s career. With founder Ritchie Blackmore retaining only Ronnie James Dio from the previous album, he recruited keyboard player Tony Carey, bassist Jimmy Bain and drummer Cozy Powell to complete the new line-up. Recorded in Munich in less than a month, the album was overseen by “Deep Purple” engineer and rock producer Martin Birch.

The album marks Dio’s first work with bassist Jimmy Bain. Bain would later play bass in Dio’s solo band.

The album showpiece is the 8 minute and 26 second piece “Stargazer”, which features the “Munich Philharmonic Orchestra”.

Very few of the album’s tracks made it into the band’s live set: “Stargazer” and “Do You Close Your Eyes” featured in all the 1976 shows, while “A Light In The Black” was dropped early in the tour.

Rising peaked at #48 on Billboard’s Pop Albums chart. In the UK it would peak at #6.