This album "RAINBOW - Long Live Rock and Roll is the third studio album released by Rainbow, released in 1978.
This web page has photos of album covers, inner sleeves, record labels together with production details, musicians and track-listing.
This 12" LP black vinyl music record comes comes in a Fold Open Cover (FOC), which is also also known as a Gatefold cover. The inner pages of this album cover contains photos of the audience during a live concert.
This album "RAINBOW - Long Live Rock and Roll" includes the original custom inner sleeve with album details, complete lyrics of all songs by and artwork/photos
Bruce Payne - Management
The album: "RAINBOW - Long Live Rock and Roll" was produced by: Martin Birch
Martin Birch - a British Producer, Sound and Mixing Engineer. In the late 1960s until the end of the 1970s he has worked with British music bands like: "Fleetwood Mac", Rainbow , " Deep Purple " (11 Albums), "Wishbone Ash", Whitesnake , "Jon Lord", " Black Sabbath ". In the 1980s (until 1992) he was dedicated working with "Iron Maiden" (9 Albums) . Martin Birch has used many different nicknames.
Album cover design: Maxi Chan
Album cover illustration: Debbie Hall
British Hard Rock, Classic Rock
Polydor 2391 335
Gatefold Cover album
Record Format: 12" Vinyl Stereo Gramophone Record
Total Album (Cover+Record) weight: 230 gram
1978 Made in the Netherlands
Ronnie James DIO (1942-2010) , the KING of Heavy Metal with a long career (starting in 1957) being lead singer (vocals) in many different bands. DIO's career in a nutshell: 1957 The Vegas Kings, Ronnie and the Rumblers, 1958-1961 Ronnie and the Redcaps, 1961-1967 Ronnie and the Prophets, 1967-1968 The Electric Elves, 1968-1972 The Elves, 1972-1975 ELF, 1975-1978 Rainbow , 1979-1982 Black Sabbath , 1982-2010 DIO (Band) , 1981-1982 Black Sabbath , 2006-2010 Heaven & Hell.
Ronnie and the Rumblers, Ronnie and the Red Caps, Elves, Elf, Black Sabbath, DIO, Heaven and Hell)Cozy Powell (real-name: Colin Flooks) was a British drummer from Cirencester, Gloucesterhire, during his musical career from 1968 until 1998 he has performed in at least two dozen of hard rock and heavy metal bands, most notable in the bands: Black Sabbath , Michael Schenker Group, Rainbow , White Snake . Here is a complete list of bands in which Cozy Powell has played drums in: Bedlam, Big Bertha, Black Sabbath, Brian May, Cozy Powell (Band), Cozy Powell's Hammer, Emerson, Lake & Powell, Forcefield, Glenn Tipton, Graham Bonnet & The Hooligans, Jeff Beck's Group, Michael Schenker Group, Pete York / Cozy Powell, Peter Green Splinter Group, Phenomena, Rainbow, The Ace Kefford Stand, The Snakes, The Sorcerers, Tipton, Entwistle and Powell, Tony Martin, Whitesnake, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Youngblood.
Bob Daisley is a Bass guitar player from Sydney, Australia and has a very long career as musicians in bands like "Black Sabbath" , "Ozzy Osbourne" , "Rainbow" , "Yngwie J. Malmsteen", "Gary Moore (Band)", "Uriah Heep" and many other bands.
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