BLACKMORE,RITCHIE'S RAINBOW
LIVE FROM KOLN 1976 (RED YELLOW & BLUW VINYL 3LP) (RSD26) - LP

UPC: 5014797913462
Label: DEMON/EDSEL
Format: LP
Release Date: April 18, 2026
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DESCRIPTION:

First time ever vinyl release for this incredible live concert from Rainbow's debut world tour and documenting one of the band's first ever shows in Europe, at Cologne""s Kölner Sporthalle on 25th September 1976. Released on 3LP with each disc pressed in a different colour of the rainbow (translucent red, yellow and blue) and newly mastered by Andy Pearce & Matt Wortham.

50th anniversary this show recorded on the bands rainbow rising tour in 1976 in cologne germany, features stone cold classics such as stargazer and man on the silver mountain. this live album has only been available on cd pressings made 20 years ago, both as a single concert / as part of the japan only 6-cd box set deutschland tournee 1976. now nearly 50 years on from the original concert, the recording makes it's debut appearance on a vinyl format with the audio newly mastered by andy pearce & matt wortham

when rainbow finally landed in europe for their debut live shows there, it was on the back of both the albums "ritchie blackmore's rainbow" and"rainbow rising" having charted so the band were playing sold out venues, and what a band¦ with the line up consisting of ritchie blackmore, ronnie james, cozy powell, jimmy bain and tony carey.

TRACK LIST:

SIDE ONE
Kill The King
Mistreated

SIDE TWO
Sixteenth Century Greensleeves
Catch The Rainbow

SIDE THREE
Man On the Silver Mountain

SIDE FOUR
Stargazer

SIDE FIVE
Still I'm Sad

SIDE SIX
Do You Close Your Eyes