Rainbow Lyrics Trivia Quiz

Answer: Man On The Silver Mountain

The song "Man On The Silver Mountain", was from Rainbow's first album, entitled "Rainbow". It featured the first line-up of the band, including Ronnie James Dio, on lead vocals, Ritchie Blackmore as lead gutiarist, Gary Driscoll on drums, Craig Guber on bass, and Mickey Lee Soule as pianist.

It was released in 1975, coinciding with Blackmore's fall-out with his previous band, "Deep Purple".

Answer: Street Of Dreams

"Street Of Dreams" was a song taken from Rainbow's 1983 album, "Bent Out Of Shape". The album featured the vocal stylings of Joe Lynn Turner, the guitar riffs of Ritchie Blackmore, and contributions by bassist Roger Glover. The mainstream music video for the song, featured a man going to a psychologist and getting hypnotised to overcome a traumatic, and recurring, nightmare.

The hypnotism helped him realize that the doctor was the source of his anguish.

Answer: Can't Let You Go

The song, "Can't Let You Go", was taken from Rainbow's 1983 album, "Bent Out Of Shape". The line-up, at the time, featured the vocal stylings of Joe Lynn Turner, the guitar genius of Ritchie Blackmore, the bass of Roger Glover, the drums of Bob Rondinelli, and the keyboards of David Rosenthal.

The mainstream music video for the song had a vampiric theme, with Joe Lynn Turner suited up to look like the "Prince of Darkness", Dracula.

Answer: I Surrender

The song "I Surrender", was taken from Rainbow's 1981 album, "Difficult To Cure". The particular album, featured Joe Lynn Turner on vocals, Richie Blackmore on lead guitar, Roger Glover on bass, and Don Airey on keyboards. The music video was mostly on a stage, with some clever lighting effects added, but little more to add to the song.

Answer: Stone Cold

The song "Stone Cold", was featured in Rainbow's 1982 album, "Straight Between The Eyes". It featured the vocals of Joe Lynn Turner, the guitar of Ritchie Blackmore, the drumming of Bob Rondinelli, the bass of Roger Glover, and the keyboards of Don Airey and David Rosenthal.

The mainstream music video for the song, distributed by MTV, featured the vocalist(Turner), searching through a room of mirrors for his girlfriend, who appeared as a porcelain doll to the viewers, thus emphasizing the title, "Stone Cold".

Answer: Since You've Been Gone

"Since You've Been Gone" was a hit single from the 1979 album "Down To Earth". It was a lesser known album for many reasons. First off, the vocalist was neither Ronnie James Dio, nor Joe Lynn Turner, but a new face named Graham Bonnet. The line-up was similar otherwise, featuring Ritchie Blackmore on lead guitar, and Roger Glover on bass.

The song was arguably one of the best songs off of the album.

Answer: Gates of Babylon

The song, "Gates of Babylon", was taken from Rainbow's 1978 album, entitled "Long Live Rock N' Roll". The line-up for the band in that particular time frame comprised of Ronnie J. Dio on vocals, Ritchie Blackmore on guitar, Bob Daisley on bass, Cozy Powell on drums, and David Stone on keyboards. The song remains an iconic piece of music, even to this day.

Answer: Death Alley Driver

The song "Stone Cold", was featured in Rainbow's 1982 album, "Straight Between The Eyes". It featured the vocals of Joe Lynn Turner, the guitar of Ritchie Blackmore, the drumming of Bob Rondinelli, the bass of Roger Glover, and the keyboards of Don Airey and David Rosenthal.

The MTV music video, featured the band viewing a car chasing a motorcycle, while the music played. The simplicity of the video was obvious, as Rainbow's more detailed videos weren't released for another year.

Answer: Starstruck

The song "Starstruck" was taken from Rainbow's 1976 album, entitled "Rising". It was the second album, by Rainbow, to feature the vocal stylings of Ronnie James Dio. Ritchie Blackmore was the lead guitarist, Jimmy Bain was the bass guitarist, Cozey Powell was the drummer, and Tony Carey ran the keyboards.

The album proved to be very successful for the band, and cleverly fit the album's title, seeing as the band was rising to success. Ronnie James Dio, however, would go on to make one more album with Rainbow, before forming his own band, entitled "Dio".

Answer: Ariel

The song "Ariel", was from Rainbow's studio album entitled "Stranger In Us All". It was released in 1995, and featured Ritchie Blackmore on guitars, Doogie White on vocals, John O. Reilly on drums, Greg Smith on bass, and Paul Morris on keyboards. With the dissociation of almost all of the classic, and well remembered, line-up, the album was a flop that sold very poorly.

After the album, Blackmore disbanded the group, and started another band, which he called "Blackmore's Night". The lead vocalist, for "Blackmore's Night", was his wife.