Rising (Rainbow album)

Rising

Cover painting by Ken Kelly
Studio album by Rainbow
Released 17 May 1976
Recorded Musicland Studios, Munich, Germany, February 1976
Genre Heavy metal
Length 33:28
Label Oyster/Polydor
Producer Martin Birch
Rainbow chronology
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
(1975)
Rising
(1976)
Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
(1978)

Rising (also known as Rainbow Rising)[1] is the second studio album by the British hard rock band Rainbow, released in 1976. In issue 4 of Kerrang! magazine, Rising was voted the greatest heavy metal album of all time.

History

Band leader Ritchie Blackmore retained only Ronnie James Dio from the previous album line-up, and recruited drummer Cozy Powell, bassist Jimmy Bain and keyboard player Tony Carey to complete the roster.[2] Recorded in Munich in less than a month, the album was overseen by rock producer and engineer Martin Birch. The band was originally billed as Blackmore's Rainbow in the US.[1]

The album showpiece, the 8-minute and 26 second piece "Stargazer", which features the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, originally had a keyboard intro, as evidenced on the 2011 Deluxe Edition's "Rough Mix" version.

Few of the album tracks made it into the band's live set: "Stargazer" and "Do You Close Your Eyes", written prior to the inaugural US tour in late 1975, featured in all the 1975 and 1976 shows, while "A Light in the Black" was dropped early in the 1976 tour, although it was reintroduced into the set during the Japanese dates. "Starstruck" was played in shortened form usually as part of "Man on the Silver Mountain".

2016: fortieth anniversary

May 17, 2016 was the fortieth anniversary of the release of this album and probably the reason that Rainbow decided to play three concerts this year. The promotional poster displaying the iconic fist and rainbow taken from the album shows evidence of this.

On this years anniversary a few artists reacted to this event. Saxon's Biff Byford called it a "great album",[3] Destruction's Schmier named it an "amazing album" and "Ronnie James Dio’s big album",[4] Snowy Shaw called it "a masterpiece and pretty much a milestone" and claimed that it "introduced a more Dungeons and Dragons type fantasy heavy rock to the masses."[5] Judas Priest's Rob Halford called it "a significant record" and a "thrilling album" and he also claimed that "it plays as well and sounds as well and feels as good now as when it first came out. That shows you how important and how valuable that music still is."[6] Also this year, five Iranian rockers joined forces with Iranian rock and metal music journalist and producer, Mohsen “Stargazer” Fayazi to pay tribute to this event and covered the “Stargazer” song, which they could not publish due to copyright issues.[7][8]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[9]
Rolling Stone(mixed)[10]
Sputnikmusic[11]

Rising peaked at number 48 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. In the UK it would peak at number 11. The original vinyl release was a gatefold sleeve, with a generic Polydor inner-bag.

The first CD issue had a slightly different mix to that of the original LP, including, for example, a longer delay before the band entered after Carey's opening solo in "Tarot Woman", a longer play-out on "Run with the Wolf", and the track "Stargazer" had the vocals mixed without the delay, the extra synthesizer deleted and some of the phased sounds deleted. When remastered in 1999 the original vinyl mix was restored.

According to AllMusic, Rising captured "Blackmore and Dio at the peak of their creative powers...(it) chronicled both the guitarist's neo-classical metal compositions at their most ambitious, and the singer's growing fixation with fantasy lyrical themes – a blueprint he would adopt for his entire career thereafter."[9]

2011 Deluxe Edition

After several reschedulings, the album was finally released in Japan on 5 April 2011 as a 2 SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) Deluxe Remastered Edition. This limited edition reissue will only be released in a cardboard gatefold sleeve (mini LP-style paper jacket) featuring the "high-fidelity" SHM-CD manufacturing process (compatible with standard CD players) and is part of a two-album Rainbow cardboard sleeve reissue series featuring Rainbow Rising and Down to Earth. Both feature the unique-to-Japan obi strip and an additional insert. The 2011 Deluxe Edition has gone Silver in 2013 in the UK.[12]

Track listing

All tracks written by Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio. 

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Tarot Woman"  5:58
2."Run with the Wolf"  3:48
3."Starstruck"  4:06
4."Do You Close Your Eyes"  2:58
Side two
No.TitleLength
5."Stargazer"  8:26
6."A Light in the Black"  8:12

2011 Deluxe Edition

Disc one – New York Mix
No.TitleLength
1."Tarot Woman"  6:01
2."Run with the Wolf"  3:41
3."Starstruck"  4:06
4."Do You Close Your Eyes"  3:00
5."Stargazer"  8:26
6."A Light in the Black"  8:12
Disc one – Los Angeles Mix
No.TitleLength
7."Tarot Woman"  6:05
8."Run with the Wolf"  3:45
9."Starstruck"  4:05
10."Do You Close Your Eyes"  2:58
11."Stargazer"  8:22
12."A Light in the Black"  8:11
Disc two – Rough Mix
No.TitleLength
1."Tarot Woman"  6:06
2."Run with the Wolf"  3:49
3."Starstruck"  4:04
4."Do You Close Your Eyes"  3:04
5."Stargazer" (with keyboard intro)9:08
6."A Light in the Black"  8:12
7."Stargazer" (Pirate Sound tour rehearsal)8:34

Personnel

Rainbow

with

Production

Charts

Album
Year Chart Position
1976 UK Albums Chart[13] 11
RPM100 Albums (Canada)[14] 17
Swedish Albums Chart[15] 23
New Zealand Albums Charts[16] 36
German Albums Chart[17] 38
Billboard 200 (US)[18] 48
2011 Oricon Japanese Albums Charts[19] 67

Certifications

Country Organization Album Year Certification Sales
UK BPI Rising - Original Edition (1976) 1979 Gold (+ 100,000)[20]
UK BPI Rising - Deluxe Edition (2011) 2013 Silver (+ 60,000)[21]

Cover versions

In other media

The song "A Light in the Black" was featured in the 1994 movie S.F.W. The song is played when Cliff 1st enters his bedroom after he comes home for the first time in 36 days.

Accolades

Publication Country Accolade Year Rank
Kerrang! United Kingdom "Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time" 1981 1
Kerrang! United Kingdom "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time"[23] 1989 14
Q United Kingdom "The 30 Greatest Classic Rock Albums Ever"[24] 2004
Kerrang! United Kingdom "100 Best British Rock Albums Ever"[25] 2005 74
Classic Rock United Kingdom "100 Greatest British Rock Album Ever"[26] 2006 18

References

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  2. Saulnier, Jason (1 June 2010). "Tony Carey Interview". Music Legends. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
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  4. "RAINBOW "Rising" At 40: Interview With Schmier". Metal Shock Finland. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  5. Booth, Alison. "RAINBOW "Rising" At 40: Interview With Snowy Shaw". Metal Shock Finland. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  6. Booth, Alison. "RAINBOW "Rising" At 40: Interview With Rob Halford". Metal Shock Finland. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  7. "Iranian Rockers Stopped From Paying Tribute To RAINBOW Rising Anniversary". Bravewords. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  8. "The rainbow that doesn't rise". The Highway Star. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  9. 1 2 Ginsberg, Geoff. Album review at AllMusic. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
  10. Duncan, Robert (15 July 1976). "Album review: Rainbow - Rainbow Rising". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 7 November 2007. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
  11. Arneson, Aaron (12 October 2012). "Rainbow - Rising". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
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  13. "Rainbow Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2013-11-26.
  14. "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 25, No. 21, August 21, 1976". Library and Archives Canada. 21 August 1976. Retrieved 2013-12-03.
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  25. Rock Albums "Kerrang – 100 Best British Rock Albums Ever – February 2005" Check |url= value (help). Kerrang. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
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