Rainbow - The Very Best Of Rainbow


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Label: Polydor
Catalog#: 537 687-2
Format: CD, Compilation
Country:UK
Released:Aug 1997
Genre: Rock
Style: Hard Rock
Credits: Artwork By [Design] - Smay Vision
Bass - Bob Daisley (tracks: 5 to 7) , Craig Gruber (tracks: 1, 2) , Jimmy Bain (tracks: 3, 4) , Ritchie Blackmore (tracks: 5 to 7) , Roger Glover (tracks: 8 to 16)
Compilation Producer - Bill Levenson
Drums - Bob Rondinelli* (tracks: 10 to 14) , Chuck Burgi* (tracks: 15, 16) , Cozy Powell (tracks: 3 to 9) , Gary Driscoll (tracks: 1, 2)
Engineer - Flemming Rasmussen (tracks: 10 to 12) , Gary Edwards (tracks: 8, 9) , Nick Blagona (tracks: 13, 14)
Guitar - Ritchie Blackmore
Keyboards - David Rosenthal* (tracks: 13 to 16) , David Stone (3) (tracks: 5 to 7) , Don Airey (tracks: 8 to 12) , Tony Carey (tracks: 3, 4)
Mastered By - Steve Fallone
Other [Essay] - Jerry Bloom , Mark Welch
Other [Project Assistance] - Catherine Ladis
Other [Projection Coordination] - Terri Tierney
Other [Rainbow Family Tree] - Pete Frame
Photography [Additional] - Anthony Loew , Fin Costello
Photography [Cover Photo] - Fin Costello
Producer - Martin Birch (tracks: 1 to 7) , Ritchie Blackmore (tracks: 1, 2) , Roger Glover (tracks: 8 to 16) , Ronnie James Dio (tracks: 1, 2)
Vocals - Graham Bonnet (tracks: 8, 9) , Joe Lynn Turner (tracks: 10 to 16) , Ronnie James Dio (tracks: 1 to 7)
Written-By - Joe Lynn Turner (tracks: 12 to 16) , Ritchie Blackmore (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 11 to 16) , Roger Glover (tracks: 9, 11, 13, 14) , Ronnie James Dio (tracks: 1 to 7)
Notes:Compilation comes with a fold-out poster-style booklet, including an essay and the band's family tree "Rainbow - Roots And Branches".

Tracks 1/2 recorded between the 20th of February and the 14th of March 1975 at Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany.
Tracks 3/4 recorded at Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany sometime in February 1976.
Tracks 5/6/7 recorded at Le Chateau, Paris, France, March/May/December 1977.
Tracks 8/9 recorded at Le Chateau, Paris, France, with the Maison Rouge Mobile Studio, January/February 1979.
Tracks 10/11 recorded and mixed at Sweet Silent Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1980 and
track 12 recorded in the US, April 1981.
Tracks 13/14 recorded at Le Studio, Morin Heights, Canada, November 1981.
Tracks 15/16 recorded and mixed at Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark, May/June 1983.

Compilation mastered at PolyGram Studios.

Tracks 1 and 2 from Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (1975)
Tracks 3 and 4 from Rainbow Rising (1976)
Tracks 5 to 7 from Long Live Rock 'N' Roll (1978)
Tracks 8 and 9 from Down To Earth (1979)
Tracks 10 and 11 from Difficult To Cure (1981)
Track 12 from b-side of Can't Happen Here (1981)
Tracks 13 and 14 from Straight Between The Eyes (1982)
Tracks 15 and 16 from Bent Out Of Shape (1983)

Distribution: Polydor/PolyGram
LC 0309
BIEM/MCPS
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Tracklisting:

1   Man On The Silver Mountain (4:37)
    Arranged By - Ritchie Blackmore
  Mixed By [Mixed Production] - Martin (The Wasp) Birch*
  Piano, Mellotron, Clavinet, Organ - Mickey Lee Soule
2   Catch The Rainbow (6:38)
    Arranged By - Ritchie Blackmore
  Mixed By [Mixed Production] - Martin (The Wasp) Birch*
  Piano, Mellotron, Clavinet, Organ - Mickey Lee Soule
3   Starstruck (4:06)
    Concertmaster [Koncert Meister] - Fritz Sonneleitner*
  Conductor - Rainer Pietsch
  Orchestra - Munich Philharmonic Orchestra*
4   Stargazer (8:26)
    Concertmaster [Koncert Meister] - Fritz Sonneleitner*
  Conductor - Rainer Pietsch
  Orchestra - Munich Philharmonic Orchestra*
5   Kill The King (4:28)
    Written-By - Cozy Powell
6   Long Live Rock 'N' Roll (4:23)
7   Gates Of Babylon (6:46)
    Concertmaster - Ferenc Kiss
  Conductor, Other [Scored By] - Rainer Pietsch
  Strings - Bavarian String Ensemble
8   Since You Been Gone (3:17)
    Written-By - Russ Ballard
9   All Night Long (3:50)
10   I Surrender (4:01)
    Written-By - Russ Ballard
11   Can't Happen Here (4:57)
12   Jealous Lover (3:11)
13   Stone Cold (5:17)
14   Power (4:26)
15   Can't Let You Go (4:20)
    Written-by [Intro] - David Rosenthal*
16   Street Of Dreams (4:26)
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