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Nine years worth of breaking my back
Rainbow In Concert 1976 — Live in Düsseldorf is slated to be released on vinyl as a 3LP. The show was just re-released as part of The Temple of The King 1975 – 1976 box set, but apparently it has never been previously available on vinyl. HMV has an orange vinyl special, while other retailers offer good old black.
Track list:
Disc 1
- Kill the King
- Mistreated
- Sixteenth Century Greensleeves
Disc 2
- Catch the Rainbow
- Man On the Silver Mountain
Disc 3
- Stargazer
- Still I’m Sad
Release date has been pencilled in for June 26, 2026.
Speaking of high noons, Louder Sound rehashes a Classic Rock feature on Stargazer:
“We’ve made a lot of progress between the first and second LPs,” Blackmore told Hit Parader in 1976. “It’s kind of more representative music now, before it was just some songs that we had written and put them down as just a hobby, really.
“This time we went into the studio answer to a more as a band. Before, it was just a few friends of ours, with the exception of Ronnie. Now it’s more directed; each member of the band has a say on the LP. More drums, more bass, more keyboards as well as vocals.”
Read more in Louder Sound.
Thanks to our editor emeritus Benny Holmström for the vinyl heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Are you guys at THS attempting to stir up Uwe Hornung, he he he. If so we all will be right behind you and we all will give Uwe something to complain about. Somewhere over the Rainbow, this will keep that grumpy old man busy at his keyboard. Cheers.
June 7th, 2026 at 09:40No worries, I find the format in which music from the Rising era is published largely irrelevant! 😂 But this release is natürlich great for all vinylistas (and especially that sizable portion of them who is NOT colorblind). I’m just not one of them.
For what Dio era Rainbow was, Düsseldorf is a mighty fine testimony and infinitely preferable to the domesticated and weirdly sequenced On Stage. The band was certainly on fire.
June 7th, 2026 at 14:00What the world needs is not another release of previously available material but the remaining on stage tracks including to holy of holys the live LITB, to be released. I would then die a contented man.
June 7th, 2026 at 16:25From what I understand Munich was recorded by the band, Anyone have any Idea why it has never came out ?
June 7th, 2026 at 21:06My guess would be technical issues with the recording equipment. As a live band Rainbow were relatively consistent at the time so I doubt it could have been the performance.
June 8th, 2026 at 13:16@4 some tracks have been released on “live in germany”. Also there is one track from Mannheim
What I’d like to know is which of the gigs is best? Köln, Dusseldorf, Nuremberg is the best night. Got the live in Koln RDS version n wondering if it’s worth getting the Dusseldorf version. I’ve got them on CD.
June 9th, 2026 at 05:41@4 My theory: because there is Munich 1977 (Rockpalast video + album), they ditched Munich 1976, because except for us experts here, noone would understand what is what.
June 9th, 2026 at 10:28“Mannheim” is supposed to have been a typo for “Munich”, I think.
3 actual Munich ’76 songs released in the original “Live in Germany 1976” plus a further one on Ritchie’s “Rock Profile Vol. II” CD.
My personal theory is Uwe issued a cease-and-desist, as in “enough of this Rising-era stuff already!”
Cheers, J.-
PS. So, we have “Do You Close Your Eyes” pro-shot 1976 TV video from Munich AND its pro-audio soundtrack on “Live in Germany 1976” (it matches, I checked)…any video editing wizards out there? 🙂
June 9th, 2026 at 13:45My personal theory is Uwe issued a cease-and-desist, as in “enough of this Rising-era stuff already!”
https://66.media.tumblr.com/70cda8de8401afcc29cf863f8ef1e6cc/tumblr_pnft5hJqpz1qj6sk2o1_540.gif
How unfair, Julio, I am to Dio era Rainbow what Hagen was to Siegfried in the Nibelungen, a faithful servant and protector at all times!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagen_(legend)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q28jmcacQ1E
June 9th, 2026 at 19:19@9
Haha!
Your Honor, with apologies to the defendant, I withdraw my statement!
😁
Best, J.-
June 10th, 2026 at 13:08Things you always second-guessed about colored vinyl, but were – and for good reason too – afraid to ask …
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sbICat1n1oE
June 10th, 2026 at 21:59