Colour 3LP (Opaque Green) in widespine sleeve. 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. Released on an exclusive Opaque Green 3LP set and 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 neverpredictable 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 This live album has only been available on CD pressings originally made 20 years ago, both as a single concert / as part of the Japan only 6-CD Box Set Deutschland Tournee 1976.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

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