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On Stage is a live album released by Rainbow in 1977. The album features a cover of a song from Blackmore's previous band Deep Purple: "Mistreated."

The album was recorded live over several German and Japanese dates in late 1976 during the Rising world tour. Many of the tracks were spliced together from different dates by producer Martin Birch, and the running order was changed to more easily fit four sides of vinyl.

The recording features the customary introduction to a Rainbow show - the classic quote from the The Wizard of Oz, "Toto: I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. We must be over the rainbow!" with the last word repeated as an echo, then the actual band plays a musical phrase from the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow before breaking into Kill the King.



Track listing

Side one
"Kill the King" (Ronnie James Dio, Ritchie Blackmore, Cozy Powell) – 5:32
"Medley: Man on the Silver Mountain(Dio, Blackmore)/Blues(Blackmore)/Starstruck(Dio, Blackmore)" – 11:12
"Blues" (Blackmore) (Vinyl)
"Starstruck" (Blackmore/Dio) (Vinyl)

Side two
"Catch the Rainbow" (Dio, Blackmore)– 15:35

Side three
"Mistreated" (David Coverdale, Blackmore) – 13:03

Side four
"Sixteenth Century Greensleeves" (Dio, Blackmore) – 7:36
"Still I'm Sad" (Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty) – 11:01

Personnel
Ronnie James Dio – Vocals
Ritchie Blackmore – Guitar
Tony Carey – keyboards
Jimmy Bain – Bass
Cozy Powell – drums