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.
Lady of the Lake
Rainbow Lyrics
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Makin' it shiver and shake
And a permanent cry fallin' out of the sky
Slippery and sly like a snake
With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth
A shadow has covered the light
Then a beam in the shade from a silvery blade
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
When a movement behind hit the side of my mind
I trembled and shook it away
Then another assault and I started to falter
Fibers of steel turned to clay
With a bubbly turn now the water should churn
And push it way from the core
And a lady in white will bring sun to the night
Brighter than ever before
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
Lady of the lake
There's a magical sound slidin' over the ground
Makin' it shiver and shake
And a permanent cry fallin' out of the sky
Slippery and sly like a snake
With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth
A shadow has covered the light
Then a beam in the shade from a silvery blade
Has shattered the edge of the night
Straight down I'm swirling around
Blinded and bruised by the strain
There must be some way to see
Diamonds out of the rain
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
Lady of the lake
The lyrics to Rainbow's song Lady Of The Lake describe a mystical and magical presence that is personified by the lady of the lake, who waits for the singer below and has the power to control his life. The song begins with a magical sound sliding over the ground, causing it to shiver and shake accompanied by a cry falling out of the sky, slippery and sly like a snake. A shadow covers the light, and a silvery blade shatters the edge of the night.
The second verse describes how the lady of the lake waits below, only to rise on command, with the singer's life in her hands. There is a movement behind him that hits the side of his mind, causing him to falter, with fibers of steel turning to clay. However, the lady in white will bring sun to the night, brighter than ever before, with the water churning and pushing its way from the core.
In the final verse, the singer is swirling around, blinded and bruised by the strain, with the hope to see diamonds out of the rain. However, the lady of the lake still waits below, ready to rise on command and with his life in her hands. The Lady Of The Lake is a metaphor for something or someone held in high esteem, a powerful figure that controls the singer's life.
Line by Line Meaning
There's a magical sound slidin' over the ground
The sound is so enchanting that it travels across the ground
Makin' it shiver and shake
The sound is powerful enough to make the ground tremble
And a permanent cry fallin' out of the sky
The cry is unceasing and falls down from the sky
Slippery and sly like a snake
The cry is deceptive, like the movement of a snake
With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth
Something has moved gracefully and with a sense of secrecy
A shadow has covered the light
The darkness has engulfed the light creating a shadow
Then a beam in the shade from a silvery blade
A glimmer of light appears in the darkness like a sword made of silver
Has shattered the edge of the night
The light has broken the boundary of darkness
I know she waits below
The Lady of the Lake is waiting for the right moment to appear
Only to rise on command
She will only appear when summoned
When she comes for me
The Lady of the Lake will come for the singer
She's got my life in her hands
The Lady of the Lake holds the singer's fate
When a movement behind hit the side of my mind
The singer experiences a sensation of something happening behind them
I trembled and shook it away
The singer tries to ignore the sensation and forgets about it
Then another assault and I started to falter
The sensation returns and the singer loses their composure
Fibers of steel turned to clay
The singer's strength and confidence have been reduced to nothing
With a bubbly turn now the water should churn
The water begins to move and stir in a vivacious way
And push it way from the core
The water pushes some force out of its center
And a lady in white will bring sun to the night
The Lady of the Lake will appear and bring light to the darkness
Brighter than ever before
The light will be even more radiant than before
Straight down I'm swirling around
The singer is being pulled down by a force
Blinded and bruised by the strain
The singer is struggling and suffering due to this force
There must be some way to see
The singer wishes to find a way out of this situation
Diamonds out of the rain
They want to find something beautiful amidst the chaos and pain
Lady of the lake
The song is dedicated to the Lady of the Lake
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio
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El Haj
[Verse 1]
There's a magical sound slidin' over the ground
Makin' it shiver and shake
And a permanent cry fallin' out of the sky
Slippery and sly like a snake
With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth
A shadow has covered the light
Then a beam in the shade from a silvery blade
It shattered the edge of the night
[Chorus]
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
[Verse 2]
When a movement behind hit the side of my mind
I trembled and shook it away
Then another assault and I started to faulter
Fibres of steel turned to clay
With a bubbly turn now the water should churn
And push it way from the core
And a lady in white will bring sun to the night
Brighter than ever before
[Chorus]
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
Lady of the lake
[Verse 3]
There's a magical sound slidin' over the ground
Makin' it shiver and shake
And a permanent cry fallin' out of the sky
Slippery and sly like a snake
With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth
A shadow has covered the light
Then a beam in the shade from a silvery blade
Has shattered the edge of the night
[Chorus]
Straight down I'm swirling around
Blinded and bruised by the strain
There must be some way to see
Diamonds out of the rain
[Outro]
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
Lady of the lake
Mαίρη Αρκ
There's a magical sound slidin' over the ground
Makin' it shiver and shake
And a permanent cry fallin' out of the sky
Slippery and sly like a snake
With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth
A shadow has covered the light
Then a beam in the shade from a silvery blade
Has shattered the edge of the night
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
When a movement behind hit the side of my mind
I trembled and shook it away
Then another assault and I started to faulter
Fibres of steel turned to clay
With a bubbly turn now the water should churn
And push it way from the core
And a lady in white will bring sun to the night
Brighter than ever before
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
Lady of the lake
There's a magical sound slidin' over the ground
Makin' it shiver and shake
And a permanent cry fallin' out of the sky
Slippery and sly like a snake
With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth
A shadow has covered the light
Then a beam in the shade from a slivery blade
Has shattered the edge of the night
Straight down I'm swirling around
Blinded and bruised by the strain
There must be some way to see
Diamonds out of the rain
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
Lady of the lake
Milot Osmani
Lyrics:
There's a magical sound slidin' over the ground
Makin' it shiver and shake
And a permanent cry fallin' out of the sky
Slippery and sly like a snake
With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth
A shadow has covered the light
Then a beam in the shade from a silvery blade
Has shattered the edge of the night
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
When a movement behind hit the side of my mind
I trembled and shook it away
Then another assault and I started to faulter
Fibres of steel turned to clay
With a bubbly turn now the water should churn
And push it way from the core
And a lady in white will bring sun to the night
Brighter than ever before
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
Lady of the lake
There's a magical sound slidin' over the ground
Makin' it shiver and shake
And a permanent cry fallin' out of the sky
Slippery and sly like a snake
With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth
A shadow has covered the light
Then a beam in the shade from a slivery blade
Has shattered the edge of the night
Straight down I'm swirling around
Blinded and bruised by the strain
There must be some way to see
Diamonds out of the rain
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
Lady of the lake
John Sherman
This song is often overlooked but is a masterpiece. Ritchie Blackmore is a genius.
Jan Strapina
Who else?!🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸
Ingwar Magn
Absolute perfection. It's not just a voice. It's just that Bruce, Ian and other (also great) vocalists had a voice. But Dio had strength, sadness, crying, suffering, hope and message in his voice to all of us. Nobody could do that. I listen and listen and listen to this. And I cry ... Genius!
Jan Strapina
Total agree!!!!!🤘🤘🤘
The Boz
This song has one of the best choruses I ever heard in rock. Brilliant album by a brilliant band.
Atanas Atanasov
That riff is so so memorable and catchy. Absolute masterpiece.
Jan Strapina
All the musicians,who played and singin here is a masters!!!!!!!!!!🤘🤘🤘
El Haj
[Verse 1]
There's a magical sound slidin' over the ground
Makin' it shiver and shake
And a permanent cry fallin' out of the sky
Slippery and sly like a snake
With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth
A shadow has covered the light
Then a beam in the shade from a silvery blade
It shattered the edge of the night
[Chorus]
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
[Verse 2]
When a movement behind hit the side of my mind
I trembled and shook it away
Then another assault and I started to faulter
Fibres of steel turned to clay
With a bubbly turn now the water should churn
And push it way from the core
And a lady in white will bring sun to the night
Brighter than ever before
[Chorus]
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
Lady of the lake
[Verse 3]
There's a magical sound slidin' over the ground
Makin' it shiver and shake
And a permanent cry fallin' out of the sky
Slippery and sly like a snake
With a delicate move kind of shifty and smooth
A shadow has covered the light
Then a beam in the shade from a silvery blade
Has shattered the edge of the night
[Chorus]
Straight down I'm swirling around
Blinded and bruised by the strain
There must be some way to see
Diamonds out of the rain
[Outro]
I know she waits below
Only to rise on command
When she comes for me
She's got my life in her hands
Lady of the lake
Maria Mustermann
one of my absolute favourite rainbow songs. maybe its the dark atmosphere,the heavy riff,dios vocals (or maybe all togheter) that makes me loving this song so much.
Paul Pechak
My favorite DIO album ever. Every song on this is untouchable. I turn 50 soon and this still rocks just like it did in 1978 on my 8 track in my Gran Torino. God Bless you Ronnie !!!! P.