The Best of Rainbow

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The Best of Rainbow
Compilation album by Rainbow
Released 1981
Recorded 1975-1981
Genre Hard rock
Rainbow chronology
Jealous Lover EP
(1981)		 The Best of Rainbow
(1981)		 Straight Between the Eyes
(1982)

The Best of Rainbow is a compilation album from British hard rock group Rainbow, released in 1981.

It was the first official compilation and featured only previously-released studio cuts, taken from the five studio LPs released at that point. However, "Jealous Lover", the first song written by Blackmore and Turner, had been available only as a B-side in Europe (to "Can't Happen Here") and on the Jealous Lover EP in the USA.

The original vinyl-release was a 2LP set, in a gatefold-sleeve.

[edit] Track Listing

[edit] CD1

  1. "All Night Long"
  2. "Man on the Silver Mountain"
  3. "Lost in Hollywood"
  4. "Jealous Lover"
  5. "Long Live Rock 'n' Roll"
  6. "Stargazer"
  7. "Kill the King"
  8. "A Light in the Black"

[edit] CD2

  1. "Since You Been Gone"
  2. "Sixteenth Century Greensleeves"
  3. "Catch the Rainbow"
  4. "Eyes of the World"
  5. "I Surrender"
  6. "Gates of Babylon"
  7. "Can't Happen Here"
  8. "Starstruck"
v • d • e
Rainbow
Ritchie Blackmore
Vocals : Ronnie James Dio · Graham Bonnet · Joe Lynn Turner · Doogie White
Bass  : Craig Gruber · Jimmy Bain · Mark Clarke · Bob Daisley · Roger Glover · Greg Smith
Drums : Gary Driscoll · Cozy Powell · Bobby Rondinelli · Chuck Burgi · John O'Reilly · John Miceli ·
Keyboards : Micky Lee Soule · Tony Carey · David Stone · Don Airey · David Rosenthal · Paul Morris
Studio albums
EPs
Live albums
On Stage · Finyl Vinyl · Live in Germany/Live in Europe · Live in Munich 1977 · Rainbow Live at Cologne SportsHalle · Rainbow Live at Dusseldorf Philipshalle · Rainbow Live at Nurnberg Messezentrum
Compilation albums
Video albums
Live Between the Eyes/The Final Cut · Live in Munich 1977
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