Event: Record Store Day 2026
Format: 3 x LP (Red Translucent, Yellow Translucent, Blue Translucent)
Label: Demon Records
Limited edition (Limited to 1200 copies).
First time ever vinyl release for this incredible live concert from Rainbow’s debut world tour, 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 color of the rainbow (translucent red, yellow, and blue) and newly mastered by Andy Pearce & Matt Wortham.
50th anniversary, this show was recorded on the band’s Rainbow Rising tour in 1976 in Cologne, Germany, and features stone cold classics such as Stargazer and Man on the Silver Mountain. This live album has only been available on CD pressings 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 its debut appearance on a vinyl format with the audio 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 was 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.
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
