Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow live video "Do You Close You Eyes"

Below can be seen a live video for Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow performing "Do You Close You Eyes" from Circus Krone, Munich 29th September 1976.

In the video clip featuring: Ritchie Blackmore - Guitar, Ronnie James Dio - Vocals, Cozy Powell - Drums, Jimmy Bain - Bass, Tony Carey - Keyboards

"Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow or Blackmore's Rainbow) were an English-American rock band, controlled by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1994 to 1997. They were originally established with American rock band Elf's members, though over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up. In addition to lead singers Ronnie James Dio, Graham Bonnet, Joe Lynn Turner and Doogie White, the project consisted of numerous backing musicians. The band started out combining mystical lyric themes with neo-classical metal, but went in a more streamlined commercial style 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 and 4 million albums in the United States"

METAL CLASSICS: Rainbow (Ronnie James Dio / Ritchie Blackmore) deluxe editions set for November

LONG AWAITED DELUXE REISSUES OF RAINBOW SET FOR RELEASE THIS NOVEMBER

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Rainbow are set to release Deluxe Reissues of On Stage and Long Live Rock N’ Roll this November.

Rainbow, lead by the guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, became synonymous with some of the most well regarded and popular charting Rock songs of the seventies and eighties. From ‘Stargazer’ and ‘Man On A Silver Mountain’ to ‘All Night Long’, ‘Long Live Rock And Roll’ and ‘Since You Been Gone’, each year in the decade of Rainbow was marked by some of the best songs and performances captured both on record and in concert.

Passing through the band were some of the best the genre had to offer. Vocalists Ronnie James Dio and Graham Bonnet, bass player and producer Roger Glover and drummer Cozy Powell, each brought their individual talent to the table to record some of Rock’s best loved hard rock on those albums and singles.

On Stage is a live album originally released in 1977. The album was recorded live over several German and Japanese dates in late 1976 during the Rising world tour. Producer Martin Birch spliced many of the tracks together from different dates. The recording features the customary introduction to a Rainbow show – the classic quote from The Wizard of Oz,"Toto: I have a feeling we're not inKansas anymore. We must be over the rainbow!" with the last word repeated as an echo, then the actual band plays a musical phrase from the song ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’ before breaking into ‘Kill the King’.

Long Live Rock 'n' Roll is the third studio album released in 1978. This was Rainbow's last album to feature Ronnie James Dio on vocals.

Disc 1

Over The Rainbow

Kill The King

Medley: Man On The Silver Mountain

Blues

Starstruck

Catch The Rainbow

Mistreated

Sixteenth Century Greensleeves

Still I'm Sad

Disc 2 (bonus tracks) – Live Osaka 9/12/1976

Kill The King

Mistreated

Sixteenth Century Greensleeves

Catch The Rainbow

Medley: Man On The Silver Mountain

Stargazer

Still I'm Sad

Do You Close Your Eyes

(Previously unreleased)

Long Live Rock N’ Roll

Disc 1

Long Live Rock 'n' Roll

Lady Of The Lake

LA Connection

Gates Of Babylon

Kill The King

The Shed (subtle)

Sensitive To Light

Rainbow Eyes

Disc 2

Rough Mix’s 02/07/1977:

Lady Of The Lake

Sensitive To Light

LA Connection

Kill The King

The Shed (subtle)

Long Live Rock N Roll

Kill The King

Shepperton Studio Rehearsals:

Long Live Rock 'n' Roll

Rainbow Eyes Don

Don Kirschner Show with Alt Vocals:

Long Live Rock 'n' Roll

Kill The King

Long Live Rock 'n' Roll

LA Connection

Gates Of Babylon