"I look round and there's puke all over the place, and I thought, this is not going well": How Rainbow's classic lineup came together then fell apart

Rainbow in 1976, studio portrait.

With their second album, Rising, Ritchie Blackmore’s post-Deep Purple band Rainbow created one of rock music's defining records. In 2011, the man in black and his former bandmates looked back on the tensions that fuelled this landmark album – and broke the band apart.

Tokyo, December 16, 1976