History Music / Rainbow

Actually, it is the solo project of former DeepPurple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. It initially started as a quick off-shoot project of Blackmore (backed by Elf, a PowerTrio fronted by RonnieJamesDio) because he wanted to record a cover of Quatermass song "Black Sheep of the Family". After Blackmore left DeepPurple, the band became a full-time project. During the 70's, they played Hard Rock; in the early 80's they adopted more AOR-ish sound.

-->-- '''Man on the Silver Mountain'''

* AlbumTitleDrop: For ''Straight Between the Eyes'' (from "Rock Fever"):

* GenreShift: "If You Don't Like Rock 'n' Roll" on ''Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow''. For this song the album suddenly goes from Hard-Rock-slash-proto-Metal to old school Rock and Roll with LittleRichard-esque piano riffs.

* IAmTheBand: Ritchie Blackmore's tendency towards this caused strife both in this band and in ''every other band he ever played with.'' Ironically enough, many people remember Rainbow for {{Dio}}'s vocals and charismatic stage presence as much as Blackmore's guitar (Ronnie was even [[RevolvingDoorBand the only other member to stay]] in between the debut album and ''Rising'').
* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Difficult to Cure'' introduced the more commercial sound for the 80's.

* SignatureSong: "Man on The Silver Mountain", "Long Live Rock 'n' Roll" and "I Surrender".
** Also "Stargazer", which more often than not shows up in lists of best metal songs of all time.

* IAmTheBand: Ritchie Blackmore's tendency towards this caused strife both in this band and in ''every other band he ever played with.'' Ironically enough, many people remember Rainbow for {{Dio}}'s vocals and charismatic stage presence as much as Blackmore's guitar.

[[color:red:R]][[color:yellow:a]][[color:blue:i]][[color:green:n]][[color:grey:b]][[color:pink:o]][[color:orange:w]] is, to put it shortly, [[XMeetsY the lovechild]] of EverythingsBetterWithRainbows and ThePowerOfRock.

* IAmTheBand: Ritchie Blackmore.

Actually, it is the solo project of former DeepPurple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. It initially started as a quick off-shoot project of Blackmore (backed by Elf, a PowerTrio fronted by RonnieJamesDio) because he wanted to record a cover of Quatermass song "Black Sheep of the Family". After Blackmore left DeepPurple, the band became fulltime project. During the 70's they played Hard Rock but in the early 80's they adopted more AOR-ish sound.

* Music/{{Instrumentals}}: "Still I'm Sad" (sometimes performed with vocals during live-concerts), "Vielleicht Das Naechste Mal (Maybe Next Time)", "Difficult to Cure", "Weiss Heim", "Anybody There?" and "Snowman".

Actually, it is the solo project of former DeepPurple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. It initially started as a quick off-shoot project of Blackmore (backed by Elf, a PowerTrio fronted by RonnieJamesDio) because he wanted to record a cover of Quatermass song "Black Sheep of the Family".
After Blackmore left DeepPurple, the band became fulltime project. During the 70's they played Hard Rock but in the early 80's they adopted more AOR-ish sound.

* HeyItsThatVoice: RonnieJamesDio was the band's first singer.

* EpicRiff: "Man on the Silver Mountain"

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}' [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Difficult_to_cure.jpg cover artwork]] for ''Difficult to Cure'' was originally designed for Music/BlackSabbath's ''Never Say Die!'', but it was rejected.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Hipgnosis' [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Difficult_to_cure.jpg cover artwork]] for ''Difficult to Cure'' was originally designed for Music/BlackSabbath's ''Never Say Die!'', but it was rejected.

Not to be confused with the [=TVTropes=] contributor [[{{Tropers/Rainbow}} Rainbow]].

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: RonnieJamesDio was the band's first singer.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Hipgnosis' [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Difficult_to_cure.jpg cover artwork]] for ''Difficult to Cure'' was originally designed for BlackSabbath's ''Never Say Die!'', but it was rejected.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3776.jpg

* CoveredUp: Russ who?

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Difficult_to_cure.jpg The cover artwork]] for ''Difficult to Cure'' by Hipgnosis was originally for BlackSabbath's ''Never Say Die!'', but it was rejected.

** "I see a rainbow rising" from "Stargazer" on ''Rising'' (also called ''Rainbow Rising'' because of that line and the way the title was written on the album cover)
* CoverVersion: "Black Sheep of the Family" (Quatermass), "I Surrender" (Russ Ballard), "Still I'm Sad" (Yardbirds), and "Since You Been Gone" (Russ Ballard).
** Russ Ballard wrote "I Surrender" for Rainbow, so it doesn't really count as a cover since they were still the first to perform it. He still has songwriter's credit for the song though.

* Music/{{Instrumentals}}: "Still I'm Sad" (sometimes performed with vocals during live-concerts), "Vielleicht Das Naechste Mal (Maybe Next Time)", "Difficult to Cure", "Anybody There?" and "Snowman".

'''[[color:red:R]][[color:yellow:a]][[color:blue:i]][[color:green:n]][[color:grey:b]][[color:pink:o]][[color:orange:w]]''' is, to put it shortly, [[XMeetsY the lovechild]] of EverythingsBetterWithRainbows and ThePowerOfRock.

* AlbumTitleDrop: For ''Straight Between the Eyes'':

-->When she opens fire