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Pages in category "Songs written by Ritchie Blackmore" The following 113 pages are in this category, out of 113 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
One of Ritchie Blackmore hallmarks is the ability to writing memorable riffs using 4rths. His most iconic riff - the intro to Deep Purple's " Smoke On the Water " - is an example of such. Other Deep Purple songs that used the same idea were " Mandrake Root " and "Burn", along with Rainbow's "Man On A Silver Mountain", "All Night Long" and "Long ...
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 ...
The album was praised in British contemporary reviews for its fantasy/heroic-like lyrical content and the innovative rock style. [14] However, the reviewer for the American magazine Rolling Stone disparaged the album, describing Blackmore's playing "listless and bored in relation to past performances" and the band "a completely anonymous group."
The songs are "eight searing, hooky hard rockers", remarkably rendered by Bonnet's performance and energy. [12] The album "is perhaps the most divisive record in Rainbow’s catalogue" according to Record Collector reviewer, because of "Blackmore's single-minded pursuit of mainstream success" and the departure from the sound of preceding albums ...
"Stargazer" is a song by the British-American rock supergroup Rainbow, released as fifth track from the band's second studio album Rising (1976). It is an epic song narrating the story of a powerful wizard whose attempt to fly by constructing a mystical tower to the stars leads to the enslavement of vast numbers of people.
It is named after the song "Beyond the Sunset" by Blackmore’s Night from their 1999 album Under a Violet Moon. This compilation was derived from their four studio albums released at that point except for one previously unreleased track; "Once In A Million Years", and also contains two re-recorded tracks: "Ghost of a Rose" and "Now and Then".