The Best of Rainbow

Infobox Album
Name = The Best of Rainbow
Type = compilation
Artist = Rainbow


Released = 1981
Recorded = 1975-1981
Genre = Hard rock
Length =
Label =
Producer =
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Last album = "Jealous Lover EP"
(1981)
This album = "The Best of Rainbow"
(1981)
Next album = "Straight Between the Eyes"
(1982)

"The Best of Rainbow" is a compilation album from British hard rock group Rainbow, released in 1981.

It was the first official compilation and featured only previously-released studio cuts, taken from the five studio LPs released at that point. However, "Jealous Lover", the first song written by Blackmore and Turner, had been available only as a B-side in Europe (to "Can't Happen Here") and on the Jealous Lover EP in the USA.

The original vinyl-release was a 2LP set, in a gatefold-sleeve.

=Track Listing=

CD1

#"All Night Long"
#"Man on the Silver Mountain"
#"Lost in Hollywood"
#"Jealous Lover"
#"Long Live Rock 'n' Roll"
#"Stargazer"
#"Kill the King"
#"A Light in the Black"

CD2

#"Since You Been Gone"
#"Sixteenth Century Greensleeves"
#"Catch the Rainbow"
#"Eyes of the World"
#"I Surrender"
#"Gates of Babylon"
#"Can't Happen Here"
#"Starstruck"