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RECORD STORE DAY 2026 RELEASE - SATURDAY 18/04/2026
3LP (Red/Yellow/Blue Vinyl) - Limited to 950 Copies
This Record Store Day item will be available to purchase in store on Saturday 18th April from 8am and will be available to purchase online on Monday 20th April from 8pm.
Strictly one per customer / no pre-orders.
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First time ever vinyl release for this incredible live concert from Rainbow’s debut world tour and documenting one of the band’s first ever shows in Europe, at Cologne’s Kölner Sporthalle on 25th September 1976. Released on 3LP with each disc pressed in a different colour of the Rainbow (Translucent Red, Yellow and Blue) and Newly Mastered by Andy Pearce & Matt Wortham
When Rainbow finally landed in Europe for their debut live shows there, it was on the back of both the albums ‘Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow’ and ‘Rainbow Rising’ having charted, so the band were playing sold out venues, and what a band... with the line up consisting of Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James, Cozy Powell, Jimmy Bain and Tony Carey
As one of the cornerstones of British Rock, Rainbow, led by the never-predictable but ever-astonishing guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, became synonymous with some of the most well regarded and popular charting Rock songs of the seventies and eighties.
This show recorded on the bands Rainbow Rising tour in 1976 in Cologne Germany, features stone cold classics such as ‘Stargazer’ and ‘Man on the Silver Mountain’. This live album has only been available on CD pressings originally made 20 years ago, both as a single concert / as part of the Japan only 6-CD Box Set Deutschland Tournee 1976. Now nearly 50 years on from the original concert, the recording makes it’s debut appearance on a vinyl format with the audio Newly mastered by Andy Pearce & Matt Wortham.
Tracklist
SIDE ONE
Kill The King
Mistreated
SIDE TWO
Sixteenth Century Greensleeves
Catch The Rainbow
SIDE THREE
Man On the Silver Mountain
SIDE FOUR
Stargazer
SIDE FIVE
Still I'm Sad
SIDE SIX
Do You Close Your Eyes