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Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow or Blackmore's Rainbow) were a British rock band formed in Hertford in 1975 by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore.Established in the aftermath of Blackmore's first departure from Deep Purple, they originally featured four members of the American rock band Elf, including their singer Ronnie James Dio, but after their self-titled debut album, Blackmore ...
Rainbow are an English-American hard rock band originally from Hertford, Hertfordshire.Formed in January 1975 by then-Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, the original lineup of the group also included former Elf members Ronnie James Dio (lead vocals), Craig Gruber (bass), Gary Driscoll (drums) and Micky Lee Soule (keyboards), who recorded and released the self-titled album Ritchie ...
Rainbow performing in Oslo, Norway. The following is a comprehensive discography of Rainbow, an English hard rock band. They have released 8 studio albums, 16 live albums, 16 compilation albums, 8 box sets, 3 EPs and 24 singles.
The Very Best of Rainbow is a greatest hits compilation album by the British hard rock band Rainbow. It was released in 1997 and features material ranging from 1975's Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow to 1983's Bent Out of Shape .
Difficult to Cure is the fifth studio album by the British hard rock band Rainbow, and it was released in 1981.It was the first album to feature Bobby Rondinelli on drums and Joe Lynn Turner on lead vocals after the departures of Cozy Powell and Graham Bonnet respectively, following the release of Down to Earth.
After leaving Deep Purple in 1975, Blackmore formed the hard rock band Rainbow, [2] which fused baroque music influences and elements of hard rock. [3] [4] Rainbow steadily moved to catchy pop-style mainstream rock. [2] Rainbow broke up in 1984 with Blackmore re-joining Deep Purple until 1993.
The Best of Rainbow is the first compilation album from British hard rock group Rainbow, released in 1981.. This compilation album is slightly different from the similarly titled album from 1980, which was released only in Japan, [2] and features mostly previously-released studio cuts, taken from the five studio albums Rainbow had released at that point.
As a result, some of the songs, like the first single released from this album, "Street of Dreams", are usually considered to be more in the album-oriented rock style, instead of the hard rock sound of earlier Rainbow albums. [8] The album was particularly aimed at the US market: the title is an American idiom rather than a British one. However ...