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Wikimetal celebrates 50th anniversary of Rainbow Rising with a short compendium of 6 interesting facts about the album. Which are in no way a surprise to anybody who’s been paying attention.

  1. Rainbow Mk1 was short lived and gutted way before work started on the second album.
  2. The artwork for the album has become iconic.
  3. Munich Philharmonic was hired to play the strings on Stargazer.
  4. Lyrics for the Stargazer and A Light in the Black form a storytelling diptych.
  5. Even containing the two epic tracks, the album is surprisingly short at 33 minutes total.
  6. The impact of Rising exceeded expectations at the time of its release.

Kindly proceed to Wikimetal if you need further elaboration.

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Posted by Nick on Monday, May 18th, 2026, filed under Blog. You can follow comment on this post through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a comment. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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