This section is dedicated to the person who did the research on Rainbow that is listed in this article
Unfortunately the website is no longer active, so I have taken the liberty of using cached pages to recreate it here
Again...thanx to:
This is a chronology of the band Rainbow with Ronnie James Dio & Ritchie Blackmore, concert by concert, recording by recording, for the periods 1974 to 1978.
Click on any of the time periods below to view the detailed chronology:
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The gig entries are set out in the following format: Date [dd.mm.yy]; location [city, suburb]; venue; state [USA and Australia], province [Canada] or island [Japan]; country.
Cancelled and/or unconfirmed shows are listed in red, whilst live jams and other performances are shown in grey [and are aligned to the right].
Performances which are known to have been recorded [officially or unofficially] are marked .
The links to third-parties' sites are intended to provide additional information about the concert venues concerned including, where possible, internal and/or external photographs. If anyone is aware of other similar sites relating to Rainbow's concerts which might be of interest, please get in touch.
Lyrics are linked from the album covers.
Where memorabilia relating to a specific concert is in the online archive, this is linked to and indicated by .
A handful of unresolved shows are included where the venue, or even the date, remains unconfirmed. Any help with these or other errors and omissions would be appreciated and credited where appropriate.
THE GIGS AT A GLANCE
The following is a tabulation of the number of concerts played by Rainbow. Where two shows were played in one day, or night, these are both counted. Not included are TV appearances, jam sessions and scheduled performances either known to have been cancelled or unconfirmed. The tour dates are colour-coded geographically and the totals by region would seem to be as follows:
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United Kingdom |
North America |
Mainland Europe |
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1975 |
0 |
20 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
20 |
1976 |
10 |
20 |
21 |
10 |
10 |
71 |
1977 |
17 |
0 |
23 |
0 |
0 |
40 |
1978 |
0 |
51 |
0 |
0 |
16 |
67 |
Totals |
27 |
91 |
44 |
10 |
26 |
191 |