History of the group
1975 - In April, Ritchie Blackmore left Deep Purple to form a new band, Rainbow. It included musicians from the American group "Elf" (with whom Blackmore once recorded the song "Black Sheep Of The Family" on "Purple Records" - when "Elf" performed with "Deep Purple" as a warm-up band) - Ronnie James Dio (vocals) - later wrote most of the songs, Mickey Lee Soul (keyboardist), Craig Gruber (bass) and Gary Driscoll (drums). In May, the album "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow" appeared, recorded at Munich's Musicland Studios. When the album began to climb the charts (reaching the top thirty in America), Soul, Gruber and Driscoll disappeared from the group, and Blackmore took their place. recruited bassist Jimmy Bain (ex-Hariot), keyboardist Tony Carey (Blessings) and drummer Cozy Powell (Jeff Beck Group).1976 - in July the group released the first album with the new line-up - "Rainbow Rising". From the beginning of August until the end of the year, the musicians toured the States, Japan, Europe and Canada.
1977 - Bassist Mark Clark ("Uriah Heep") replaced Jimmy Bain. In May, immediately after the recording of the new album began, Tony Carey and Mark Clark left. Ritchie Blackmore has refocused his efforts on recording a live album. Those who left were replaced by David Stone and Bob Daisley. As a result, it was born live album"On Stage" (Blackmore-Dio-Cary-Bain-Powell), from which the single "Kill The King" became Rainbow's first album to hit the charts. Later that year, the musicians began recording their third studio album at Paris Studios.
1978 - At the beginning of the year, tours began in America and Japan, lasting most of the year. "Long Live Rock" n "Roll" was ready in May and immediately entered the Top100. In November, after ten months of touring, Blackmore became disillusioned with the band's lineup and, as a result, Cozy Powell was left alone (Dio became a member of Black Sabbath). A month later, Richie played at a London club with former Deep Purple colleague Ian Gillan and invited keyboardist Don Elrey to join Rainbow.
1979 - Ritchie Blackmore completes a new line-up with the addition of singer Graham Bonnet (formerly of The Marbles) and former dipper swimmer Roger Glover. Produced by Glover, "Down To Earth" was released in September and the album's first single, "Since You've Been Gone" (with lyrics by Russ Ballard (ex-Argent)) received deserved success at the very end of the year.
1980 - Blackmore and Glover's single "All Night Long" was released in March, reaching number 5 in the UK. In August the band performs at the first Monsters of Rock festival in Donnington. Powell and Bonnet immediately left for solo careers. Blackmore replaced them with vocalist Joe Lynn Turner and drummer Bob Rondinelli. Around the same time, the original vocalist of Deep Purple, Rod Evans, formed his own band and began performing under the name Deep Purple. Blackmore and Glover took action to protect the group's name and kept Evans from using it. Eventually the album "Deepest Purple / The Very Best of Deep Purple" was released. And when the year was ending, a concert disc "In Concert" appeared, including songs recorded in 1970-1972.
1981 - in February, Rainbow recorded the album Difficult To Cure, the single from which "I Surrender", written by Ballard, quickly spread across the UK charts. Polydor quickly responded and re-released the group's first hit, "Kill The King," as well as their first album, "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow." In December the group recorded a collection - "The Best Of Rainbow".
1982 - April. The album "Strong Between The Eyes" appears. The first single of this work, "Stone Cold", is in the top 40, and the album is in the top thirty. The group tours all over the world. "Deep Purple Live in London" is released in the UK - first recorded in 1974 at the BBC radio studio.
1983 - The band, now featuring Blackmore, Glover, Turner and new members keyboardist Dave Rosenthal and drummer Chuck Bergey, releases "Bent Out of Shape." The video clip for the song "Street of Dreams" was banned from showing on MTV for demonstrating hypnosis. In October the band will tour the UK for the first time since 1981. A month later, the album generates interest in the States, subsequently ranking at number 34 on the list best albums, despite MTV ignoring the single.
1984 - Ritchie Blackmore decides to put Rainbow on hold as he and Glover decide to revive Deep Purple's most successful line-up (Gillan - vocals, Lord - keys, Pace - drums). Each participant was promised $2 million, and the tour began. Before this trip, Rainbow is holding its last tour in Japan. At the last show, accompanied by Japanese symphony orchestra Blackmore's arrangement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony sounds. In November, Deep Purple signed a contract with the American studio Mercury Records and released the album Perfect Strangers, which took 17th place.
1985 - in January, the first single from the album "Perfect Strangers" is released - "Knocking At Your Back Door", building on the success of the title track of the album - "Absolute Strangers". In July, a double collection "Deep Purple" - "Anthology" - will be released.
1986 - a double collection of remixes "Finyl Vinyl" appears, which includes previously unheard live recordings of "Rainbow", as well as some songs previously released only as singles. This was another step in successful career groups.
1994 - Blackmore tries out the next incarnation of the group. At the end of the year, the new group includes: Scottish singer Dougle White (ex-Praying Mantis), keyboardist Paul Morris (ex-Doro Pesch), bassist Greg Smith (who worked with Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult, Joe Lynn Turner), drummer John O'Reilly (Richie Havens, "Blue Oyster Cult", Joe Lynn Turner) and singer Candace Knight (with her participation the single "Ariel" was recorded) - "background" vocals.
1995 - from the beginning of the year the group has been recording and in September the album "Stranger In Us All" is completed. BMG International releases the album and in the first week more than 100 thousand copies are sold in Japan. This remarkable fact was exploited by Burrn! magazine, which announced that Ritchie had won no less than seven reader poll awards, including "Best Guitarist", "Best Songwriter", "Best" live show"", and "Song of the Year" - for the hit "Black Masquerade". Similar honors were bestowed upon Ritchie in Germany, where he was named "Best Guitarist" in a reader poll. Shortly after the release of the album "Stranger in Each of Us", the video clip for the song "Ariel" was often played on MTV Europe, supporting the success of the album. Towards the end of the year the group began touring Europe. Chuck Bergey, who played with Rainbow in 1983, replaced John O'Reilly, who, just after finishing recording the album, was injured while playing football.
1996 - "Rainbow" played to great success in places such as Chile, Curittiba, Argentina and Brazil. After such successful tours South America, the band performed to hundreds of thousands of people during their European tour alongside ZZ Top, Little Feat and Deep Blue Something. The largest crowd numbered 40 thousand fans. After one of the Rainbow concerts in Germany, Ritchie Blackmore received a call from Pat Boone (famous for his white shoes) and invited him to participate in his new album of rock stars - Pat Boone: Metal Thoughts. Richie, flattered, thought it was funny and played the guitar part in Boone's arrangement of "Smoke on the Water." In addition to this work, Richie recorded the song "Apache" for the Hank Marvin and the Shadows album. In October, Blackmore began recording his Renaissance album, "Shadow Of The Moon", which will no longer be part of the Rainbow project... The new group will be called "Blackmore's Nights" Night") and implements the plans of the two main instigators of the project - Blackmore and Candice Knight. The album will include four medieval melodies, set to the poems of Candice Knight and performed in a modern manner. Ian Anderson from "Jethro Tull" will make his contribution to one of the songs - "Play, Minstrel, Play." Studio "BMG Japan" will document the process of creating songs and release three videos.
1997 - Starting February 20, "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow" tours the United States with the program "Stranger In Each Of Us." The American tour coincided with the release of the debut CD "Blackmore's Night" - "Moon Shadows", the pearl of which became Candice Knight - lyricist and performer of most songs. The album was released at the end of August in Japan and in the first week more than 100 thousand copies were sold, and the album itself entered the Billboard Album Charts in 14th place. On May 31, at the Esberg rock festival in Sweden, "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow" attracted 30 thousand fans. In early June, the album "Shadow Of The Moon" was released in Europe and remained in the charts for 17 weeks.
By 1975 (Ritchie Blackmore) was completely tired of it and came to the conclusion that he should be himself and play for fun. Inviting Ronnie James Dio to collaborate James Dio) and other musicians of the rock group Elf, he founded a group called (“Rainbow”).
Debut album new group Ritchie narcissistically named Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. One of the tracks on the record was the beautiful rock ballad Catch the Rainbow (“Ride the Rainbow”).
The history and meaning of the song Catch the Rainbow
The composition was composed by Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio.
Ronnie explained what the song Catch the Rainbow is about:
Lyrically, Catch the Rainbow is set in the Middle Ages as it is about a young groom who does this to a lady of the court. Every night she sneaks out to sleep with him on a bed of straw. They think it will all work out, but as we know for sure, it never does and they go their separate ways. This is a track that I and I think Richie are very proud of.
Rainbow Radio Special 1975
Release and achievements
The track completes the A-side of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, released in May 1975. The song was not released as a single.
Let's listen to the legendary slow song of the cult group.
Catch the Rainbow Video
Cover versions of Catch the Rainbow
Opeth played Catch the Rainbow at the Ronnie James Dio tribute concert.
A cover of Catch the Rainbow was included on the album Defiance by Jack Starr and the band Burning Starr. This version is included in the tribute to Dio.
Catch the Rainbow Lyrics
When evening falls
She'll run to me
Like whispered dreams
Your eyes can't see
Soft and warm
She'll touch my face
A bed of straw
Against the lace
Chorus:
We believed we'd catch the rainbow
Ride the wind to the sun
Sail away on ships of wonder
But life's not a wheel
With chains made of steel
So bless me
Come the dawn x4
Come the dawn x4
Catch the Rainbow Lyrics
When night falls
She'll come running to me
Like whispered dreams
Which cannot be seen.
Tender and warm,
She will touch my face.
Lace
On a bed of straw.
Chorus:
We believed that we would ride the rainbow
Let's ride towards the sun riding the wind,
Let's sail on a ship of miracles.
But life is not a wheel
With chains of steel
Lord have mercy!
Come dawn x4
Come dawn x4
Quote about the song
...possibly the most beautiful pure ballad of Blackmore's career...
In the spring of 1975, dissatisfied with the funk habits of his colleagues, Ritchie Blackmore (b. April 14, 1945) left Deep Purple. To go his own way and play the music he wanted, the guitarist organized new team, called "Rainbow". Richie's partners in this project were the musicians of the group "Elf", which at one time supported "Deep Purple": James Dio (Ronald Padavona, b. July 10, 1940; vocals), Mickey Lee Soul (keyboards), Craig Gruber (bass) and Gary Driscoll (drums).
Blackmore's especially valuable acquisition was Dio, who not only possessed powerful vocals with a wide range, but also a talent for composing music and lyrics. In 1975, his debut album, "Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow", was released. The song "Man on the Silver Mountain" had some commercial success, but by and large Blackmore was dissatisfied with the work and began making organizational decisions. The guitarist fired everyone except Dio, and new members "Rainbow" became drummer Cozy Powell (b. December 29, 1947, d. April 5, 1998), bass guitarist Jimmy Bain and American keyboardist Tony Carey (b. October 16, 1953). This lineup recorded a much more confident album, "Rainbow Rising". " and made their first world tour, securing the group's status as a strong concert team.
In 1977, the powerful live "On Stage" was released, but Blackmore was again missing something, and he again began to make personnel changes. This time, Bain and Carey were dismissed, and their places were taken by Canadian David Stone and Tempest musician Mark Clark. But the sessions for the Long Live Rock "N" Roll album had just begun when Richie fired Clark as well, performing most of the bass parts himself. The remaining three compositions were recorded by Australian bass player Bob Daisley. After the world tour in support of Long Live Rock "N" Roll, the guitarist decided to make Rainbow's music more commercial, which displeased Dio.
As a result of the controversy, the vocalist left and the microphone passed to Graham Bonnet. Along the way, Daisley and Stone were fired, whose places were taken by Don Airey and Roger Glover. The "Down To Earth" disc was inferior in quality to the works of Diov's period, but the work still achieved commercial success due to the singles "All Night Long" and "Since You've Been Gone."
In 1980, Rainbow headlined the Monsters of Rock festival, which was the last concert for Cozy Powell, who was tired of playing pop metal. Drummer Bobby Rondinelli took part in the recording of the next “rainbow” album, and Joe Lynn Turner became the frontman instead of Bonnet. The disc "Difficult To Cure" had good success due to the hit “opener” “I Surrender” and the title track, which was Blackmore’s reworking of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
The next two works continued the trend towards immersion in AOR, and were therefore popular for the most part in America. As always not 
There were no personnel changes: for example, on “Straight Between The Eyes” Airey gave up the keys to David Rosenthal, and on “Bent Out Of Shape” Chuck Burgi played instead of Rondinelli.
In March 1984, the last "Rainbow" tour took place, since in April the classic lineup of "Deep Purple" was reunited, and in connection with this, the "rainbow" project was closed. The disc "Finyl Vinyl", released two years later, was a collection of live tracks and single material.
In 1993, Blackmore once again left Deep Purple and formed new version"Rainbow" with vocalist Dougie White, keyboardist Paul Morris, bassist Greg Smith and drummer John O'Reilly. This lineup managed to release only one album, "Stranger In Us All", and since 1997, the guitarist exchanged stadium rock for Renaissance music and completely focused on his new project "Blackmore's Night".
For its history Rainbow group(“Rainbow” - English) released only 8 albums, and not all were successful. Only 6 of her songs can be called full-fledged hits. However, Rainbow's music took its rightful place in the history of hard rock of the late 1970s and in many ways served as a model for its followers.
Characteristic features of the group were constant updates of the composition, which changed after almost every new disc. How much this depended on the wishes of the majority of its participants, we will never know. Another important event for the group was the sharp change in its style to a more commercial one in 1978. And again it is very difficult to say whether the opinion of Polydor, which collaborated with the group at that time, greatly influenced this change.
What is certain is that throughout the existence of the group, the final decisions on the composition and repertoire were made by its founder and only permanent member - guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. He had a very bad and quarrelsome character and always demanded that all his wishes be fulfilled unquestioningly. At the same time, he was an outstanding professional - as a guitarist in hard rock, he had few equals. This allowed Rainbow to achieve significant success on the stage.
Most famous songs the groups remain “Stargazer”, “Man on the Silver Mountain”, “Long Live Rock'n'Roll”, “Kill the King”, “Temple of the King”, “Do You Close Your Eyes”, “Self-Portrait” , “Sixteenth Century Greensleeves”, “Catch the Rainbow”, “Man on the Silver Mountain”, “Light in the Black”, “Still I'm Sad” and “Mistreated”.
What happened in the beginning
Rainbow's history began in April 1975. Then Ritchie Blackmore, who performed in the famous Deep Purple, became disillusioned with the style that then began to dominate the group. He wanted to perform what was closest to him, and took members of the American group Elf as partners. He met them during the American tour of Deep Purple - then Elf played as an opening act.
The most striking figure among his new colleagues was vocalist Ronnie James Dio. The one who later made a great career in Black Sabbath. His bright, yet soulful voice suited the style Richie wanted to achieve.
The first album, released in August 1975 and named very simply: “Ritсhie Blackmore’s Rainbow,” reached number 11 in the UK charts and number 30 in the USA. The first line-up changes immediately began: one after another, bass guitarist Craig Graber, drummer Gary Driscoll and keyboardist Mickey Lee Soul were fired. They were replaced by Jimmy Bain, Cozy Powell and Tony Carey respectively. This line-up, although it remained unchanged for only a short time, is considered classic for Rainbow.
When the group went on their first tour, at all her concerts the stage was decorated with a huge rainbow, made of metal structures and hung with electric bulbs, with the help of which it could change color. This building became the symbol of the group for many years.
In May 1976, the second album, “Rainbow Rising,” was released. It reached number 11 on the UK 48 chart in the US. “Rainbow Rising” became the group’s most successful disc.
March 1978. The album “Long Live Rock’n’Roll” appears. It peaked at number 7 in the UK, but only reached number 89 in the US. Despite the band's sold-out performances at all concerts, its discs were clearly not in great demand. It became obvious that in order to obtain good commercial results, the group's style needed to be changed. Polydor also insisted on this.
A new style
As a result of the already natural changes in the composition, Rainbow appeared former colleague Richie of Deep Purple - bass guitarist Roger Glover. The biggest surprise was the resignation of Dio, who immediately left for Black Sabbath. Graham Bonnet was invited instead.
Difficult times began for the group. She had to open for others, much less popular groups. The entire semantic component of her songs gradually became more down-to-earth, and the style became less and less like heavy metal.
In July 1979, the disc “Down To Earth” was released. Its maximum positions are 6 in the UK and 66 in the US. It became a commercial success, but Rainbow's original hard rock sound was gone forever.
Blackmore continued to search for the perfect lineup. Among other changes was another change of vocalist. Joe Lyn Turner joined the group.
Ritchie Blackmore said: “I knew exactly who I needed. A blues singer, someone who felt what he was singing about and not just screamed at the top of his lungs. Joe is just that person. He has more song ideas than I've ever had."
On February 6, 1981, the group’s next album, “Difficult to Curé,” was released, which included compositions from the most different styles. Obviously intended for commercial success, the disc took 5th place in the US charts and 3rd in the UK.
Last album
The group again showed their style in the next album, Straight Between the Eyes, released in April 1982.
According to Glover, "This was exactly the kind of record Rainbow needed."
In 1983, Deep Purple reunited, Richie chose to return there, and Rainbow group fell apart. However, in 1994, Blackmore made an attempt to restore his group, gathering completely new line-up. The only released album, “Stranger in Us All,” was not particularly successful. The group toured until 1997. This is where her story ends.
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