Rainbow
Rainbow is the name of at least four bands:
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.
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.
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Rainbow Lyrics
01 All Night Long You're walking up with your eyes on me It's looking good…
03 Fool For The Night I know just what you're thinking I know just how you…
06 A Light In The Black Cant forget his face, what a lonely place Has he really…
06. Long Live Rock'n'Roll At the end of a dream If you know where I…
08 Since You Been Gone I get the same old dreams same time every night Fall…
08. Since You Been Gone I get the same old dreams same time every night Fall…
16th Century Greensleeves It's only been an hour Since he locked her in the…
8 Rock fever Lookin' like little miss lonely Standin' in her ruby red sho…
A A AAA A AAA A AAA Just U'r collection line ez…
A (Japanese Ver.) A, a, a, a A, a, a, a A, a, a, a フリ向かせたい 興味引きたい 私は…
A (エー) A AAA A AAA A AAA Just U'r collection Line ez acess…
A Light In The Black Cant forget his face, what a lonely place Has he really…
All Night Long You're walking up with your eyes on me It's looking good…
Alright Baby, don't blame yourself Mezasu wa mada Higher Nagai michi…
Ariel I search for her in the dead of night A silhouette…
Bad Girl She steals my love out a way that she licks…
Black & White Yeah! oh! In the shadow 가슴속 숨겨놓은 어두운 그림자 내 몸을 끌어당기고…
Black Masquerade I know the key to secrets never told, they're hidden…
Black Sheep Of The Family I've got nothing in my head Got a floor for a…
Black Swan 궁금해요 내 모습이 변한다고 상상해요 매일 같은 곳에 갇힌 내가…
Blue Lavender's blue, dilly dilly Lavender's green When I am king…
Bring On The Night I was taking a chance on a tight-rope Walking the line…
Burn Come down all around It comes down in the hardest places Cam…
Can Day after day I keep waking up To find that you're…
Can't Happen Here Contaminated fish and micro chips Huge supertankers on Arabi…
Can't Let You Go Day after day I keep waking up To find that you're…
Catch the Rainbow When evening falls She'll run to me Like whispered dreams Yo…
Catch to Rainbow When evening falls She'll run to me Like whispered dreams …
Child In Time Instumental Sweet child in time, you'll see the line The l…
Click! 그 뻔한 얘기도 지겨워 자꾸만 보면 너는 질려 그만 좀 따라올게요 Go way…
Cold Hearted Woman She came from across the water A devil's daughter was in…
Danger Zone Shaking off the tresholds of a long forgotten dream And you…
Death Alley Driver Rough and ready rider In a supersonic sound machine Rock and…
Desperate Heart Yesterday you were here by my side Nothing to prove and…
Drinking With The Devil I never left like this before I think I'm gonna explode Had…
El Condor Pasa If I Could I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail Yes, I would If…
Emotional Crime I can't get through in the midnight hour All you wanted…
Energy Ru mune wa tomara nai no Oh noru mune wa…
Eyes Of Fire Hungry and wild she was born to the night A demon,…
Eyes of the World I see the innocent victims Fighting to get to his door No…
Fire Dance Visions of artemis Goddess of the moonlight The spell remain…
Fool For The Night I know just what you're thinking I know just how you…
Freedom Fighter You can't control me tell me what to do Chained in…
Gates of Babylon Look away from the sea I can take you anywhere Spend a…
Geu Dai Wa Nan geudaewa naega sum swineun got geudaewa naneun hamkke itjyo …
Golden Touch 좀 더 예쁘게 Make up 오늘은 어떤 옷을 골라 우후후…
Gonna Gonna GO Hey! Hey! Hey go! Hey go! Hey! Hey! (HyunYoung: Go!) Gonna…
Greensleeves Alas my love, ye do me wrong to cast me…
Hall of the Mountain King Mysteries of ages told Stories now will unfold Tales of myst…
Hello Hey boy kimi kara, hanare te ima Masshiro na, watashi ni…
Highway Star Oah nobody gonna take my car I'm gonna race it to…
Hunting Humans Justify, speak the lies, close your eyes As we make love Tou…
I Said You are The One I don't wanna live through winter I can't stand to see…
I Said You're the One Ddaddeuthan haessal siwonhan baram neowa duriseo Hamkke haes…
I Surrender I surrender to your heart babe Do anything that you want…
I'm Not The One Dizzy, dizzy, lips so sticky Tasting, tasting everything Lem…
If You Don't Like Rock 'n' Roll You'd never know there was some music playin' Until you talk…
If You Dont Like Rock 'n' Roll You'd never know there was some music playin' Until you tal…
In Love I was telling my best friend I’m gonna wait for love…
Intro You can see me I'm a sunny kind of sunshine lover And…
Intro: Over The Rainbow Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that…
Intro: Over The Rainbow Kill The King Danger, danger the Queen's about to kill There's a stranger…
Introduction To give a name To give a name To give a name To…
Jealous Lover Lost and lonely Clouds hide the sun Out on the highway It's …
Kill the King Danger, danger the Queen's about to kill There's a stranger,…
Kiss ! Kiss ! Disco ! ちょっとイイ感じなの 視線 絡まる彼 a-ha 流されてもイイ気分 だから上手に誘って? "Kiss kiss してみ…
Kiss! Kiss! Disco! Disco! Disco! ちょっとイイ感じなの 視線 絡まる彼 a-ha 流されてもイイ気分 だから上手に誘って?…
L.A. Connection Oh, carry home my broken bones and lay me down…
Lady Of The Lake There's a magical sound slidin' over the ground Makin' it sh…
Light in the Black Can't forget his face What a lonely place Has he really le…
Long Live Rock & Roll At the end of a dream If you know where I…
Long Live Rock 'N' Roll At the end of a dream If you know where I…
Long Live Rock and Roll At the end of a dream If you know where I…
Lost In Hollywood Got to get a message through 'Cause I think I'm losing…
Love Feeling overwhelming Baby's good at selling The thought of c…
Love's No Friend Well I don't need much But I need a friend Or did…
Mach Mach mach mach mach mach mach Can't stop, can't stop, get…
Magic There's a light in the sky That hangs on the edge…
Make Your Move You better not mess around with me You know you better…
Makin' Love I was always on the wilder side Chasing love away Love was…
Man on a Silver Mountain I'm a wheel,I'm a wheel I can roll,I can feel And you…
Midnight Tunnel Vision Take good care it's a tightrope ride Neon city is on…
Miss Mistreated I know you been runnin' around I know what you been…
Mistreated I know you been runnin' around I know what you been…
Moments in Love I was telling my best friend I’m gonna wait for love…
No Release Through the smoke of dancers move Demonic dirty downtown gro…
No Time To Lose The other family gets no sleep Somewhere down the love got…
Over The Rainbow Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that…
Power There's no room At the top of the wall They made a…
Pretend Everybody get up on the dance floor, Everybody get up. Every…
Rainbow I don't know アイドルの flight はマジで bright! Prime of life? Time…
Rainbow Eyes She's been gone since yesterday Oh I didn't care Never cared…
Rock Fever Lookin' like little miss lonely Standin' in her ruby red sh…
Run With the Wolf In the light of the day You can hear the old…
Self Portrait Paint me a picture And hand it on the wall Colour it…
Sensitive To Light I was feelin' rather good Should've touched some wood Here s…
Silence You say you want your freedom It all gets a bit…
since u've been gone I get the same old dreams same time every night Fall…
Since You Been Gone I get the same old dreams same time every night Fall…
Since You've Been Gone I get the same old dream, same time every night Fall…
Since Youv'e Been Gone I get the same old dreams same time every night Fall…
Since You´ve Been Gone Whoa I get the same old dream, same time every night Fal…
Sixteenth Century Greensleeves It's only been an hour Since he locked her in the…
Sixteenth Century Greensleeves ** It's only been an hour Since he locked her in the…
Smoke on the Water We all came out to Montreux On the Lake Geneva shoreline To…
Snake Charmer Old hollow eyes Got no ties Walking by the light of the…
So Cool Yeah! Let's go! Oh Yeah! Oh! 세상엔 남잔많아 오빠같은 말야 똑같은 남자는 되지…
Soldier Of Fortune I have often told you stories About the way I lived the…
Somewhere Over the Rainbow Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high There's a land that…
Spotlight Kid You don't know what's happenin' you want to go home But…
Stand and Fight Can't say something if the words ain't there What you trying…
Stargazer High noon, oh I'd sell my soul for water Nine years…
Starstruck If I'm high on a hill She'd still been looking down…
Still I'm Sad See the stars come fallin' down from the sky Gently passing,…
Still I´m Sad See the stars come fallin' down from the sky Gently passing…
Stone Cold Every night I have the same old dream 'Bout you and…
Stranded Dog night I'm so alone A million miles out on my…
Street of Dreams I heard the sound of voices in the night Spellbound there…
SWEET DREAM Hey boy, you′re my dream Uh, don't you wake me up (Baby…
Tarot Woman I don't want to go Something tells me no, no, no,…
Tearin Out My Heart First time I saw your face By your side was the…
Tell Me Tell Me 딴 여자들 앞에선 내 손 놓고 친한 친구라며 어색해하고 가끔씩 난 너의…
Temple of the King One day in the year of the fox Came a time…
Terlin' Out My Heart First time I saw your face By your side was the…
The Shed I'm like a freight train Feelin' no pain I never turn back…
The Temple of the King One day in the year of the fox Came a time…
Tite Squeeze I ain't lyin' to you baby...I hope you don't refuse But…
to me You broke my heart 'cause I couldn't dance, You didn't even…
Too Late for Tears [Blackmore/White/Regan] Well I'm moving faster close to the…
Touch Me Feel Me Love Me (Touch me, Feel me now) (Touch me, Love me now) 優し過ぎると 逃げたくな…
Touch Me, Feel Me, Love Me 優しすぎると 逃げたくなる 冷た過ぎると 追いかけたくなるの さみしい唇 君の名前呼ぶ 1人の夜は こんなに素直なのに …
Waiting For A Sign They say that it's always darkest right before the dawn They…
What a Wonderful World I see trees of green red roses too I see them…
Whoo Whoo clap clap clap clap Whoo clap clap clap clap Whoo clap…
Why Everyone knows that you dress up on Halloween, but what…
Will You Love Me Tomorrow Tonight you're mine, completely You give your soul so sweetl…
wolf to the moon With a rebel mind and a gypsy heart No place…
woman in love I was telling my best friend I’m gonna wait for love…
You and I Geudaewa naega sumswineun got Geudaewa naneun hamkke itjyo E…
ガナガナGO! Hey! Hey! I go! I go! Hey! Hey! Go! Gonna go…
ゴシップガール I wanna gossip girl, I wanna gossip girl I wanna gossip, the…
マッハ Mach Mach Mach Mach Mach Mach Can't stop can't stop get…
너뿐이라고 따뜻한 햇살 시원한 바람 너와 둘이서 함께 했었던 이 거리에서 네가 느껴져서 머리가 아파와 어지러워 나 너…