Rainbow (band)

Rainbow is a British - American rock band which in 1975 grew out of a partnership between Ritchie Blackmore and the American group Elf . From 1968 was Blackmore guitarist of Deep Purple been. Due to the flammable nature of Blackmore eventually he left that band and made ​​with Elf album Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. Shortly after the release of this album were only singer Ronnie James Dio and Ritchie Blackmore left of the original line-up. The other members were replaced. Among other star drummerCozy Powell now joined the band. Initially, the band was pretty basic hard rock marked by somewhat gothic influences. From 1978 changed the sound of Rainbow. In that year, Ronnie Dio left the band for Black Sabbath and joined the former Deep Purple bassist and also producer Roger Glover joins the group. From that moment, the group tended more of the early metal to pop to rock grafted.

The composition of Rainbow actually changed by album. Only permanent factor in the group was Ritchie Blackmore. In 1984 the group was disbanded, Blackmore and Glover returned to their old band Deep Purple. Blackmore left the band back in 1993 and founded a new version of Rainbow on, but not for long because shortly afterwards focuses Blackmore and his new wife Candice Night " Blackmore's Night "in which they focus on medieval music.

Former members Rondinelli, Smith and Turner heed the call of many fans and decided to go under the name of Over The Rainbow together again on tour with guitarist Jürgen ("JR") Blackmore, son of Ritchie Blackmore.

Albums

 * Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow ( 1975 )
 * Rising ( 1976 )
 * On stage ( 1977 )
 * Long Live Rock 'n Roll ( 1978 )
 * Down to earth ( 1979 )
 * Monsters of Rock ( 1980 )
 * Difficult to cure ( 1981 )
 * Best of Rainbow ( 1981 )
 * Straight Between The Eyes ( 1982 )
 * Bent out of shape ( 1983 )
 * Finyl vinyl ( 1986 )
 * Stranger in us all ( 1995 )