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.
Stranded
Rainbow Lyrics
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A million miles out on my own
No one to talk no one to care
Searching for someone they could be anywhere
Magic and madness it's so very strange
Soemtimes I think it's all pre-arranged
That same old feeling hits me again
Just the beginning but its feels like the end
Oh I think I might disappear
No don't leave me stranded out here
Oh it's just the loneliness I fear
Lonely window fading star
You never felt so near yet so far
Tried to forget you the best that I could
Don't try to find me it won't do any good
I'm caught in a dream so hard to locate
I'm just a captive of my own fate
No turning back no not tonight
You're moving on way out of sight
Oh feel like I'm stranded out here
Oh I think I might disappear
No don't leave me stranded out here
Oh it's just the loneliness I fear
Stranded (8 times)
Oh I feel like I'm stranded out here
Same as before
Stranded...
In Rainbow's song "Stranded," the singer sings about feeling alone and isolated in the world, with nobody to talk to and nobody to care about them. They are searching for someone, but they cannot seem to find anyone, and they feel as though they are caught between two forces - magic and madness - that they cannot fully comprehend. The singer reflects on how they feel as though their fate has been predetermined in some way, and they cannot turn back from it. They feel as though they are caught in a dream, unable to escape from it and unable to find their way back to reality. The loneliness and isolation that the singer feels is overwhelming, and they fear that they will disappear entirely into the void.
One interpretation of the song is that it speaks to the human desire for connection and meaning in life. The singer is searching for someone who will care for them, but they cannot seem to find anyone who will meet their needs. They are caught between two forces, which might represent opposing impulses within the singer themselves. The magic and madness of the world might be the mystery and wonder that life can offer, but also the chaos and confusion that can make it difficult to navigate. The singer feels as though their fate is predetermined, which might indicate a sense of helplessness and resignation in the face of the circumstances they find themselves in. Overall, the song reflects a sense of disillusionment and despair that can come from feeling disconnected from others and from the world itself.
Line by Line Meaning
Dog night I'm so alone
It is a dark and lonely night and I find myself in solitude
A million miles out on my own
I am far away from everyone and everything, all by myself
No one to talk, no one to care
No one is there to listen or care for me
Searching for someone they could be anywhere
I am in search of somebody to connect with, and that person could be anywhere
Magic and madness it's so very strange
The world can be both magical and confusing, and that can be strange at times
Sometimes I think it's all pre-arranged
There are moments when I feel like everything is predetermined and there is no escaping it
That same old feeling hits me again
I am experiencing a familiar feeling that I can't seem to escape.
Just the beginning but its feels like the end
The situation feels like the end even though it is only the beginning.
Oh feel like I'm stranded out here
I feel abandoned and alone
Oh I think I might disappear
I feel like I might fade away into nothingness
No don't leave me stranded out here
Please don't abandon me here all alone
Oh it's just the loneliness I fear
I am scared of being lonely
Lonely window fading star
I am looking out of a window and see a star that is slowly disappearing
You never felt so near yet so far
Even though the star feels close, it is still out of reach
Tried to forget you the best that I could
I have been trying my best to forget about something or someone
Don't try to find me it won't do any good
There is no point in searching for me as it won't make a difference
I'm caught in a dream so hard to locate
I am stuck in a dream that is difficult to understand or find my way out of
I'm just a captive of my own fate
I am a prisoner of my own destiny
No turning back no not tonight
There is no going back, it's too late to change things
You're moving on way out of sight
You have moved on and are no longer in my view
Stranded (8 times)
A repetition of the chorus, highlighting the feeling of being abandoned and alone multiple times
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: JOE LYNN TURNER, RITCHIE BLACKMORE
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