1. A British rock band.<… Read Full Bio ↴Rainbow is the name of at least four bands:
1. A British rock band.
2. A K-Pop group (레인보우).
3. A U.S. psychedelic rock band.
4. Mid-80's Hi-NRG project.
1. Rainbow was a British 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. including bringing in other vocalists Graham Bonnet and Joe Lynn Turner, before it folded in 1999.
The name of the band was inspired by the Rainbow Bar and Grill, a Los Angeles, California eatery which 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. 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; when the B side was recorded, however, it turned out to be even better. This led to them recording an album, and that effort caused the formation of the entire band. Rainbow's debut album, 'Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow', was released in 1975; it featured the minor hit "Man on the Silver Mountain".
Blackmore fired everybody except Dio shortly after the album was recorded. He recruited drummer Cozy Powell (formerly of the Jeff Beck Group), bassist Jimmy Bain, and keyboard player Tony Carey. This lineup went on to record the album 'Rising', which was released in May 1976 and was a big success in the U.S. (hitting #48 on the Billboard 200 chart).
For the next album, 1978's 'Long Live Rock 'n' Roll', Blackmore kept Powell and Dio and replaced the rest of the band. Blackmore had difficulty finding a bass player for this record, so he played bass himself on all but three songs ("Gates of Babylon", "Kill the King", and "Sensitive to Light"). After the release and supporting tour, Dio left Rainbow.
Blackmore continued with Rainbow, replacing Dio with ex-Marbles vocalist Graham Bonnet. Powell stayed and was joined by former Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover and keyboardist Don Airey. The first album from the new lineup, 1979's 'Down to Earth', featured the band's first single successes: "All Night Long" and "Since You Been Gone". Bonnet possessed a powerful voice on stage, yet he struggled with the band's quieter numbers and lacked Dio's range. In 1980, the band headlined the inaugural Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington in England. This was Powell's final performance with Rainbow.
The next album saw yet another line-up change as Bonnet and Powell were replaced by Joe Lynn Turner and Bobby Rondinelli, respectively. The title track from their 1981 album, 'Difficult to Cure', notably was a version of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The album also contained the guitar-driven piece "Maybe Next Time". Although facing mixed success commercially, the Difficult to Cure tour was the first tour in which Rainbow headlined in the U.S.
Rainbow's next studio album was 'Straight between the Eyes'. The band added a new keyboardist, David Rosenthal. The album was more cohesive than 'Difficult to Cure' and had more success in the U.S. The band, however, was alienating some of its earlier fans with its more slick, arena rock based sound. The single "Stone Cold", a popular power ballad, had some chart success and has since been included in several multi-artist collaboration albums. The successful supporting tour skipped the U.K. completely and focused on the U.S. market.
1983's 'Bent Out of Shape' saw drummer Rondinelli fired in favour of Chuck Burgi. The album featured the single "Street of Dreams". The song's video was banned by MTV for its supposedly controversial hypnotic video clip. The resulting tour saw Rainbow return to the U.K. and also to Japan, where the band performed with a full orchestra. Though fans greatly enjoyed the band's lively touring, the band's material was getting mixed critical reviews, and its members had a sense of needing to find direction.
By the early to mid-80s, Blackmore and Glover had reformed the Deep Purple "Mark II" lineup, and Rainbow was disbanded in 1984. A final Rainbow album, 'Finyl Vinyl', was patched together from live tracks and B-sides of singles. This album contained the instrumental "Weiss Heim", made widely available for the first time.
After Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple for the final time in 1993, he put together a new version of Rainbow in 1994, this time named Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. This incarnation of the band included Doogie White (vocals), Paul Morris (keyboards), Greg Smith (bass), and John O'Reilly (drums).
The new band released Stranger in Us All in 1995 and embarked on an extensive world tour to promote it from late 1995 to late 1997. For the tour John O'Reilly was replaced by Chuck Burgi and then by John Micelli for the U.S. leg of the tour (as well as their final show in Esbjerg, Denmark).
The tour proved very successful, and a show in Germany was professionally filmed by Rockpalast. It has never officially been released, but has been heavily bootleged. The live shows featured frequent changes in set lists and musical improvisations that proved popular with bootleggers, and many shows are still traded over a decade later.
However, fed up with stadium rock, Blackmore turned his attention to rennaisance and mediaeval music, a lifelong interest of his. Rainbow was put on hold once again and played its final concert in Denmark in 1999. Blackmore, together with his partner Candice Night as vocalist, then formed the renaissance-influenced Blackmore's Night.
2. Rainbow, the tag for all releases by the K-Pop group 레인보우, responsible for tracks: "A", "Gossip Girl", "Mach", and about a dozen more.
3. One of any number of Los Angeles, U.S.A.groups of their time (1968), Rainbow's best-known LP was After the Storm The album's one cover is a take with saxophone of Willie Dixon's "I Just Want to Make Love to You". The lineup was: Darrell Devlin (drums), Bob Gay (bass),
W. David Mohr (keyboards), and Harry Vavela (guitars).
4. Rainbow was a short-lived Hi-NRG project by Allan Coelho (of Tapps and more) that released only one single, Humpty Dumpty, in 1986.
06 A Light In The Black
Rainbow Lyrics
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Has he really let us flow
All the time thats lost, what's the final cost
Will I really get away
All my life it seems, just a crazy dream
Reaching for somebodys star
Cant believe it all, did he really fall, what to do now i dont know
Its a light in the black,
Am i ready to go?
Im coming home
Breathed the air before, heard the thunder roar
Never knew it was for me
Allways looking down, lost but never found
Eyes but look but not to see
All my life it seems, just a crazy dream
Reaching for somebodys star
Like an open door, that you've passed before
But you never had the key
Somethings calling me back,
There's a light in the black,
Am i ready to go?
Im coming home
Im coming home
Yeah
Im going back to my home
(Instrumental)
Im going home home home
Going home home home
Im coming back
Wont forget his face, what a lonely place
Did he really let us go?
All the time thats lost, whats the final cost
Will I really get away?
All my life it seems, just a crazy dream
Reaching for somebodys star
Cant believe it all, did he really fall?
What to do now i dont know
Somethings calling me back, like a light in the black
Yes im ready to go
Im coming home
Home yeah!
Im on my way back home
Look to the sky, there in the sky
I see a star
The song "A Light In The Black" by Rainbow was released in their album "Rising" in 1976. It opens with a distorted guitar riff by Ritchie Blackmore, followed by Ronnie James Dio's powerful vocals. The song has a melancholic vibe, with the lyrics exploring themes of loneliness, nostalgia, and searching for a purpose in life. The opening lines of the song question whether someone has given up on life, asking if they have "really let us flow." The singer ponders the cost of time lost and wonders whether they will ever be able to escape from their crazy dream of reaching for somebody's star.
As the song continues, the singer reflects on their past experiences of feeling lost and looking down, yet never finding what they were searching for. However, there is a glimmer of hope in the form of a calling that brings them back to their true home. The metaphor of the light in the black symbolizes the feeling of finding one's way back home, even after feeling lost and disconnected. The song ends with the singer looking up at the sky and seeing a star, suggesting that they have found their way back and are ready to move forward.
Line by Line Meaning
Can't forget his face
The memories of his face are still fresh and clear
What a lonely place
The place is desolate and isolated
Has he really let us flow
Is he really dead and left us all behind?
All the time that's lost
All the time that passed and lost can't be regained
What's the final cost?
What's the ultimate outcome or result that will be paid?
Will I really get away?
Will I be able to escape or survive from this situation?
All my life it seems
Throughout my life, it appears as though
Just a crazy dream
Everything that unfolded in reality seems like an irrational dream
Reaching for somebody's star
Striving hard to achieve someone else's desired goal
Can't believe it all
Can't comprehend or acknowledge everything that happened
Did he really fall?
Did he truly plunge or drop down?
What to do now I don't know
Not certain on what actions to take next
Something's calling me back
A force is luring or drawing me back
It's a light in the black
A spark of hope in the midst of confusion and darkness
Am I ready to go?
Do I have the courage to face the circumstances?
I'm coming home
Returning to my abode
Breathed the air before
Experienced this air many times in the past
Heard the thunder roar
Heard the loud sound of the thunder several times
Never knew it was for me
Never realized that it was meant for me
Always looking down
Continually gazing downwards
Lost but never found
Confused and Directionless
Eyes to look but not to see
Able to see with the eyes but not comprehend the meaning
Like an open door
Similar to an unlocked entrance
That you've passed before
Have crossed over before, once or several times before
But you never had the key
But was never able to unlock or access it before
There's a light in the black
There is a faint illumination in the obscurity
Yes, I'm ready to go
Confident that I'm prepared to tackle the challenge
Home, yeah!
Excited about returning home
I'm on my way back home
Currently in transit back to my residence
Look to the sky
Gaze upon the skies
There in the sky
Right there in the skies
I see a star
Spotting a brilliantly shining celestial object
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