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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.
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.
Album details Peak chart positions GER [7] JPN [20] Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow: Released: 1983; Label: Polydor; Formats: 8xLP; Germany-only release — — Deutschland Tournee 1976: Released: 24 May 2006; Label: Polydor; Formats: 6xCD; Japan-only release — 75 The Polydor Years 1975–1986: Released: 23 May 2007; Label: Polydor; Formats ...
Down to Earth is the only Rainbow album to feature Bonnet, though he was still part of the band when writing for Difficult to Cure began. Also recorded for the proposed next single, but unreleased due to Bonnet's departure, was "Will You Love Me Tomorrow". Bonnet had previously recorded this song for his first, eponymously titled, solo album in ...
Bent Out of Shape would be Rainbow's final studio album before their 12-year hiatus from the studio. It also proved to be the band's final studio album with vocalist Joe Lynn Turner, bassist Roger Glover and keyboardist David Rosenthal, and their only one to feature drummer Chuck Burgi, who replaced Bobby Rondinelli just prior to the album's recording sessions.
On 12 April 2012 a picture disc album version of Long Live Rock 'n' Roll was released in the US as part of Record Store Day 2012. A deluxe edition version was released on 13 November in Europe, featuring rough mixes of the album tracks from July 1977 except "Gates of Babylon", which was written later.
The song "Kill the King" appeared on this album before it was recorded for a studio album. A studio version appears on the follow-up release, 1978's Long Live Rock 'n' Roll. The single "Kill the King", with "Man on the Silver Mountain" and "Mistreated" as double B-sides, was released in the UK in September 1977.
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.