RAINBOW – LONG LIVE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL LP – Nr MINT A1/B1 UK 1978 ORIG

Rainbow – Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll
(Polydor Records  1978  POLD5002)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing

Textured Gatefold Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– some slight wear to edges
Insert in Nr MINT- condition
– has track times written next to some of tracks

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.

Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll is the third studio album released by Rainbow, released in 1978, and the last to feature Ronnie James Dio.

Track listing

All songs written by Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio except where noted. All lyrics by Dio.

Personnel

Rainbow

• Ritchie Blackmore – guitars, bass
• Ronnie James Dio – lead vocals
• Cozy Powell – drums, percussion
• David Stone – keyboards on “Gates of Babylon”, “Kill the King”, “The Shed”. Piano outro on “L.A. Connection”
• Bob Daisley – bass on “Kill the King”, “Sensitive to Light” and “Gates of Babylon”
• Tony Carey – keyboards on “Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll”, “Lady of the Lake”, and “Rainbow Eyes” (2012 Deluxe Edition rough mix only)

with

• Bavarian String Ensemble conducted by Rainer Pietsch on “Gates of Babylon”
• Ferenc Kiss & Nico Nicolicv – viola on “Rainbow Eyes”
• Karl Heinz Feit – cello on “Rainbow Eyes”
• Rudi Risavy & Max Hecker – flute on “Rainbow Eyes”

Production notes

• Produced by Martin Birch
• Direction: Bruce Payne