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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.
Eyes Of Fire
Rainbow Lyrics
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A demon, a daughter of madness
One look from her eyes could burn you alive
Drown you in oceans of sadness
Oh even the deadly shades of night
Won't let me hide from her eyes of fire
Face in the mirror we meet eye to eye
Desperately wanting and out of control
Dancing on winds of desire
Oh even the deadly shades of night
Won't let me hide from her eyes of fire
Curtain of darkness, screams of delight
Taunts me with her sirens calling
I got to be strong but I can't hang on
Into the flames I am falling
Oh even the deadly shades of night
Won't let me hide (no, no, no, no)
From her eyes of fire
She keeps burning
She keeps burning me, burning me, burning
Me, burning me down
Eyes of fire
Oh no
The song "Eyes of Fire" by Rainbow is a haunting and sensual piece that speaks of a woman who is both dangerous and irresistible. The lyrics describe her as hungry and wild, born to the night and a demon, the daughter of madness. Her gaze is said to be so intense that it could burn a person alive or drown them in oceans of sadness. The singer of the song, who speaks in first person, is mesmerized by her and unable to resist her seduction, caught in the grip of her passion and desire.
The lyrics depict a struggle between the singer's rational mind and his attraction to this woman. He sees himself reflected in her gaze, their encounter framed as a meeting of "passions of eternal fire." Yet, he is aware that this liaison is dangerous, described as "dancing on winds of desire." The woman is like a siren, taunting him with her call, and he feels himself falling into the flames, unable to resist her.
The song's lyrics invoke a sense of danger, pleasure, and lust, all intertwined with images of fire and darkness. The woman is mysterious and enigmatic, a force of primal attraction that draws the singer into a passionate, fiery encounter that could have deadly consequences. The song captures the timeless theme of desire and danger, exploring how the two are often entwined and how falling under a spell can be both thrilling and terrifying.
Line by Line Meaning
Hungry and wild she was born to the night
She was born with a wild and untamed spirit, always searching for excitement in the darkness.
A demon, a daughter of madness
Her unbridled nature is like that of a demon, coming from a place of madness.
One look from her eyes could burn you alive
Her gaze is so intense that it can be all-consuming, like a fire that burns everything in its path.
Drown you in oceans of sadness
Her eyes are also capable of bringing up deep feelings of sadness and despair, overwhelming you like waves in the ocean.
Oh even the deadly shades of night
Even in the darkness, when things are at their most dangerous and unpredictable,
Won't let me hide from her eyes of fire
you can't escape the intensity of her gaze and the power it holds.
Face in the mirror we meet eye to eye
When she looks at herself in the mirror, she sees that same intensity staring back at her.
Passions of eternal fire
Her innermost desires burn as brightly and fiercely as a constantly burning flame that never dies.
Desperately wanting and out of control
Despite this, she feels like she is always searching for something more, a feeling that is all-consuming and difficult to control.
Dancing on winds of desire
She is swept away by her deepest desires, like a leaf caught up in a strong gust of wind.
Curtain of darkness, screams of delight
The darkness around her only makes her desires burn brighter, like a curtain catching fire and burning more fiercely.
Taunts me with her sirens calling
Her own inner voice, like the calls of sirens, constantly tempts her to give in to her desires.
I got to be strong but I can't hang on
Despite her efforts to resist, she finds it increasingly difficult to hold back and resist temptation.
Into the flames I am falling
Eventually, she succumbs to her desires and is engulfed by the flames of passion.
She keeps burning
The fire inside her never dies, but only burns brighter with each passing day.
She keeps burning me, burning me, burning
Her fiery passion burns not only within herself, but also consumes those around her, leaving nothing but ashes in its wake.
Me, burning me down
Her passion is like a raging inferno that threatens to consume and destroy everything in its path.
Eyes of fire
It all comes back to the intensity of her gaze, which holds the power to ignite the flames of desire within anyone who meets her gaze.
Oh no
The realization of the power she holds is both thrilling and terrifying, a constant battle between the darkness and the light within her.
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: JOE LYNN TURNER, RITCHIE BLACKMORE, ROBERT R RONDINELLI
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