Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Live in Nurnberg 1976 *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 28th August 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

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 Nurnberg Messezentrum Halle on 28th September 1976.
Newly Mastered by Andy Pearce & Matt Wortham and released on 28th August 2026.

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 Nurnberg Germany, features Rainbow and pure rock classics such as ‘Stargazer’, ‘Catch The Rainbow’ 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 This live album has only been available on CD pressings originally made 20 years ago, both as a single concert / as part of the Japan only 6-CD Box Set Deutschland Tournee 1976.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

TRACKLISTING:

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

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