The Very Best of Rainbow

Infobox Album |
Name = The Very Best of Rainbow
Type = Compilation Album
Artist = Rainbow


Released = Jul 1997
Recorded = 1975-1983
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 77:40
Label = Polydor
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:zl7m968ofep6 link]
Last album = "Stranger in Us All"
(1995)
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"Live in Europe"
(1996), U.S.
This album = "The Very Best of Rainbow"
(1997)
Next album = ""
(2000)

"The Very Best of Rainbow" is a greatest hits compilation album by Rainbow. It features material ranging from 1975's Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow to their 1983 release, Bent Out of Shape.

Track listing

#"The Man on the Silver Mountain"
#"Catch the Rainbow"
#"Starstruck"
#"Stargazer"
#"Kill the King"
#"Long Live Rock 'n' Roll"
#"Gates of Babylon"
#"Since You Been Gone"
#"All Night Long"
#"I Surrender"
#"Can't Happen Here"
#"Jealous Lover"
#"Stone Cold"
#"Power"
#"Can't Let You Go"
#"Street of Dreams"

Tracks 1-2 from Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow.Tracks 3-4 from Rainbow Rising.Tracks 5-7 from Long Live Rock and Roll.Tracks 8-9 from Down to Earth.Tracks 10-11 from Difficult to Cure.Track 12 from Jealous Lover EP.Tracks 13-14 from Straght Between the Eyes.Tracks 15-16 from Bent out of Shape.