The offer came over Christmas 1978, when Blackmore visited Gillan with an invitation to join Rainbow, around the time of ...

More guitar bands formed and started to get louder; the subgenre then went on to become rock music. Large-scale live sound could now be produced so musicians could play to and be heard by ...

Chris Rainbow contributed some first-rate tracks ... OK – so I promised a dozen classic rock bands at the outset, and I will ...

He also co-founded Rainbow, a band that spanned both neo-classical metal and more pop-influenced rock sounds over its lifespan, and later steered toward traditional folk-rock with Blackmore's Night.

Rainbow originally started out with band members from Ronnie James Dio’s American rock band, Elf, but Blackmore fired everyone except Dio. He was notorious for hiring and firing musicians and ...