Rainbow 1979 - 1980

The controlling Ritchie Blackmore attempted to replace Dio with Ian Gillan, but Gillan turned him down. After a series of auditions, former vocalist/guitarist of The Marbles, Graham Bonnet was recruited instead. Cozy Powell stayed, but Daisley and Stone were both fired, the latter being replaced by keyboardist Don Airey.
At first the band auditioned bass players, but Cozy Powell suggested the then-former Deep Purple member Roger Glover. He came in as a producer, bassist and lyricist. The first album from the new line-up, Down to Earth, featured the band's first major singles chart successes, "All Night Long" and the Russ Ballard-penned "Since You Been Gone".

Rainbow 1970 - 1980

Ritchie Blackmore - guitar

Cozy Powell – drums

Don Airey - keyboards, backing vocals

Graham Bonnet – lead vocals

Roger Glover - bass, backing vocals

 

 

                                      Tracks from "Down To Earth" (1979)  

All Night Long
Eyes Of The World
No Time To Lose
Makin' Love
Since You Been Gone
Love's No Friend
Danger Zone
Lost In Hollywood

 

"Since You Been Gone" by Rainbow

 I get the same old dreams same time every night
Fall to the ground and I wake up
So I get out of bed, put on my shoes and in my head
Thoughts fly back to the breakup

These four wall are closing in
Look at the fix you put me in

Since you been gone
Since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
Could I be wrong
But since you been gone
You cast your spell so break it
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Since you been gone

So in the night I stand beneath the backstreet light
I read the words that you sent to me
I can take the afternoon, the night time comes around
too soon
You can't know what you mean to me

Your poison letter, your telegram
Just goes to show you don't give a damn

Since you been gone
Since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
Could I be wrong
But since you been gone
You cast your spell so break it
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Since you been gone

If you will come back
Baby, you know you'll never do wrong

Since you been gone
Since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
Could I be wrong
But since you been gone
You cast your spell so break it
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Ever since you been gone

Since you been gone
Since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it
Since you been gone
Since you been gone
I'm out of my head can't take it

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