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.
Street of Dreams
Rainbow Lyrics
Jump to: Overall Meaning ↴ Line by Line Meaning ↴
Spellbound there was someone calling
I looked around no one was in sight
Pulled down and I kept on falling
I've seen this place before
And you were standing by my side
I've seen your face before tonight
I know it's a mystery
Do you remember me
On a street of dreams
Running through my memory
On the street of dreams
There you stood a distant memory
So good like we never parted
Said to myself I knew you'd set me free
And here we are right back where we started
Something's come over me
And I don't know what to feel
Maybe this fantasy is real
Now I know I see what I want it to be
But it's still a mystery
Do you remember me
On the street of dreams
Running through my memory
On the street of dreams
You are in every face I see
On the street of dreams
Something's come over me
And I don't know what to feel
Maybe this fantasy is real
Now I know I see what I want it to be
But it's still a mystery
Do you remember me
On the street of dreams
Running through my memory
On the street of dreams
On the street of dreams
I know you have always been
On the street of dreams
Will we ever meet again my friend
On the street of dreams
Do you know just what it mend to be
On the street of dreams
Never know just who you'll see do ya
On the street of dreams
You can be who you want to be, oh yeah
On the street of dreams
I can hear you calling me
On the street of dreams
The song "Street of Dreams" by Rainbow is a ballad about a dream or a memory of a lost love. The opening lines of the song suggest that it is being sung by someone who is lost, both literally and emotionally. He hears a voice calling out to him, but when he looks around, nobody is there. The singer then realizes that he has seen this place before, and the missing person he is longing for is standing by his side. The scene shifts to a memory of the past when they were together. The singer questions whether the feelings he is experiencing are real or just a fantasy.
The song's chorus mentions the "street of dreams," which is symbolic of the place where the singer and his lost love first met. In the chorus, the singer wonders if his lost love remembers him and if they could ever meet again. The song closes with the haunting melody of the chorus line, "I can hear you calling me/I can feel you haunting me." It is a poignant ending that suggests an unresolved relationship.
Line by Line Meaning
I heard the sound of voices in the night
I heard indistinct voices while being lost in thoughts
Spellbound there was someone calling
Fascinated, I suspected somebody was calling me
I looked around no one was in sight
I looked around but didn't see anyone
Pulled down I just kept on falling
Feeling low, I kept going deeper into confusion
I've seen this place before
I recognize this location
You were standing by my side
You were next to me
I've seen your face before tonight
I recall having seen your face before today
Maybe I just see what I want it to be
Perhaps I am only seeing what I wish to see
I know it's a mystery
I am aware that it is an enigma
Do you remember me on a street of dreams
Do you recollect me from a time of idealistic vision
Running through my memory
Reminiscing my past experiences
There you stood a distant memory
You were a remote recollection
So good like we never parted
It felt great as though we had never been separated
Said to myself I knew you'd set me free
I thought that you would help me achieve freedom
And here we are right back where we started
And now, we are exactly where we began
Something's come over me
I am inexplicably feeling different
And I don't know what to feel
But I do not comprehend my emotions
Maybe this fantasy is real
Perhaps this dream I am having is a reality
Now I know I see what I want it to be
Now, I acknowledge that I am seeing what I desire
But it's still a mystery
Nevertheless, it remains an enigma
Do you remember me on the street of dreams
Do you recollect me from a place of idealistic aspirations
You are on every face I see
I find traces of you in every face I come across
Tell me have you always been
Can you tell me if you have always been around
Will we ever meet again my friend
Will we ever have the chance to meet again, my friend
Do you know just what it meant to be
Do you realize what it meant to be there
On the street of dreams
In that place of idealistic vision
Never know just who you'll see do ya
Nobody really knows who they will come across
On the street of dreams
On that place of idealistic aspiration
You can be who you want to be oh yeah
You can portray whatever persona you desire
I can hear you calling me
I can hear your voice calling out to me
I can feel you haunting me
I sense your presence lingering around me
Lyrics © Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, STARVING ARTIST, LLC
Written by: Joe Lynn Turner, Ritchie Blackmore
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@gilenobraga1925
I heard the sound of voices in the night,
Spell bound there was someone calling,
I looked around no one was in sight
Pulled down and I kept on falling
I've seen this place before
And you were standing by my side
I've seen your face before tonight
Maybe I just see what I wanted to be
I know it's a mystery
Do you remember me
On a street of dreams,
Running through my memory
On the street of dreams
There you stood a distant memory
So good like we never parted
Said to myself I knew you'd set me free
And here we are right back where we started
Something's come over me
And I don't know what to feel
Maybe this fantasy is real
Now I'm gonna see what I wanted to be
But it's still a mystery
Do you remember me
On a street of dreams,
Running through my memory
On the street of dreams
You are on every face I see
On the street of dreams
Something's come over me
And I don't know what to feel
Maybe this fantasy is real
Now I'm gonna see what I wanted to be
But it's still a mystery
Do you remember me
On a street of dreams,
Running through my memory
On the street of dreeeeaaaaams
On the street of dreams
And will you always feel
On the street of dreams
Will we ever meet again my friend
On the street of dreams
Do you know just what it feels to be
On the street of dreams
Ever know just who you'll see
On the street of dreams
Don't you think who you'll wanna be oh no
On the street of dreams
I can hear you calling me
On the street of dreams
I can feel you haunting me...
@mikenogozones
the only bad part of this song is when it ends...a true masterpiece
@sopasawasdee848
Yes, it shouldn't end, should continue with guitar solo for 1 minute.
@TheCrashTest
No truer words have been said.
@bennysantamaria5630
😢
@rokit430
Beautiful story of how he met his wife...Moscow❤ Joe and Dio..Great singers, if they ever did a duet together, would have been awesome.
@gregnormal55.
@@rokit430 Hello! How are you doing? Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you are a fan? Have a great day… Stay Safe!
@ras0220
Long live the 80's and all of us so very, very, fortunate to experience those glorious years.
@pflaffik
80ies had a lot of crap though, its just that we remember only the good music and filtered out all the crap
@raqueltorres3494
I feel the same way. We were so very fortunate.
@benoitachten7164
@@pflaffik The 80's had more crap than good music....(but there was really some good music)