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{{quote|''I'm a wheel, I'm a wheel, I can roll I can feel''
''And you can't stop me turning''
'''cause I'm the sun, I'm the sun, I can move I can run''
''But you'll never stop me burning''
''Come down with fire''
''Lift my spirit higher''
''Someone's screaming my name''
''Come and make me holy again''|'''Man on the Silver Mountain'''}}
'''{{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, [[X Meets Y|the lovechild]] of [[
Actually, it is the solo project of former [[Deep Purple]] guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. It initially started as a quick off-shoot project of Blackmore (backed by Elf, a [[Power Trio]] fronted by [[Ronnie James Dio]]) because he wanted to record a cover of Quatermass song "Black Sheep of the Family". After Blackmore left [[Deep Purple]], 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.
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▲== Discography: ==
* ''Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow'' (1975)
* ''Rising'' (1976)
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* ''Stranger in Us All'' (1995)
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* [[Album Title Drop]]: For ''Straight Between the Eyes'' (from "Rock Fever"):
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Fever deep inside her
Hits me straight between the eyes
When she opens fire }}
** "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).
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* [[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".
* [[New Sound Album]]: ''Difficult to Cure'' introduced the more commercial sound for the 80's.
* [[Rock Me, Amadeus]]: ''Difficult to Cure's'' title-track is an arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth.
* [[Sampling]]: "Difficult to Cure" ends with a sample of Oliver Hardy's (of Laurel & Hardy fame) laughter.
* [[Signature Song]]: "Man on The Silver Mountain", "Long Live Rock 'n' Roll" and "I Surrender".
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