RAINBOW – DOWN TO EARTH LP – Nr MINT A2/B1 UK 1979  DEEP PURPLE RITCHIE BLACKMORE

Rainbow – Down To Earth
(Polydor Records  1979  POLD5023)
Matrix No’s: A2/B1 – UK Pressing
“B” on side 2 label

Sleeve in Excellent condition
– some wear to edges/corners & some rubbing at top & bottom edges
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow or Blackmore’s Rainbow) are a British rock band led by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, active from 1975 to 1984 and 1993 to 1997, and again since 2015. They were originally established with Ronnie James Dio’s American rock band Elf, but after the first album, Blackmore fired the backing members and continued with Dio until 1979. Three British musicians joined in 1979, singer Graham Bonnet, keyboardist Don Airey, former Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover, and this line-up gave the band their commercial breakthrough with the single “Since You Been Gone”. Over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up. Other lead singers Joe Lynn Turner and Doogie White would follow, and the project consisted of numerous backing musicians. The band’s early work primarily featured mystical lyrics with a neoclassical metal style, but went in a more streamlined, commercial direction following Dio’s departure from the group.

Rainbow were ranked No. 90 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. The band has sold over 28 million albums worldwide.

Down To Earth is the fourth studio album by Rainbow, released in 1979. It contains Rainbow’s first hit single “Since You Been Gone”, marking a more commercial direction of the bands sound.

Track listing

All tracks written and composed by Ritchie Blackmore and Roger Glover except where noted.

Side one

1. “All Night Long” – 3:53
2. “Eyes of the World” – 6:42
3. “No Time to Lose” – 3:45
4. “Makin’ Love” – 4:38

Side two

1. “Since You Been Gone” (Russ Ballard) – 3:25
2. “Love’s No Friend” – 4:55
3. “Danger Zone” – 4:31
4. “Lost in Hollywood” (Blackmore, Glover, Cozy Powell) – 4:51

Personnel

Rainbow

• Ritchie Blackmore – guitar
• Graham Bonnet – vocals
• Roger Glover – bass guitar
• Don Airey – keyboards
• Cozy Powell – drums