Rainbow toured the USA as support for Blue Oyster Cult in Sept / Oct, then headlined in December to boost album sales. January was time for a lay-off, and Cozy took the chance to promote his solo album with radio and tv appearances in the UK. On January 16th the band reassembled in Sweden for rehearsals, played two shows there, then visited Denmark, Germany, France, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium. Backstage in Munich it appears that David Coverdale tried to make up with Ritchie, who apparently floored him instead! The UK tour arrangements were completely mucked up. Newcastle sold out both nights in three hours. In Manchester people were told that tickets would go on sale on Sunday, then they proceeded to sell out on Saturday, leaving 250 sods queuing all night for nothing. Ian Gillan was apparently due to jam during the encore at Wembley's first night, but in the end Ritchie didn't do an encore...

"Never have two consecutive nights been so dissinilar. Friday suffering from inaudible guitar, and overblown keyboard solos. Saturday the opposite, ear-splitting guitar and much shortened jobs on the ivories! Despite the faults on Friday, Ritchie seemed to be playing well, but somehow I knew they weren't going to do an encore. I don't pretend to know why the crowd then smashed the place up, but I guess it was because Rainbow built the crowd up, then let them down again so suddenly. They'd only played for 70 minutes, even the support group did two encores." Mike Davies.

No, I don't know why he did it either, press comments included "he'd only gone for a pee!"

The A-side is a remix and edit of the album track. The sleeve is a publicity shot from the USA in September 1979. The B-side 'Weiss Heim' was recorded in Copenhagen on January 19th 1980. A simple instumental, with intricate keyboard backing, and a rich deep guitar tone that can really work wonders if you're in a receptive mood. The master must have been whisked back to the UK, and the single was in the shops on February 1st. Amazing. The promo video was shot in the studio at the same time as 'Since You Been Gone', intercut with footage of a girl dancer. Then later on, footage from New York and Stockholm was cut in to replace the dancer, and create the illusion it was all live.

"Although Ian was suffering from end-of-tour-sore-throat, he seemed to improve as the gig progressed. 'Abbey of Thelema', my favourite, was spoiled by idiots shouting for 'Roller' during the flute bit. The place exploded when this number appeared, I was surprised by how popular it seemed. I shouted for 'Lucille' at encore time. They came back, and did guess what? Also, Ian's friend Mr.R.Blackmore slunk on stage to play, just standing near the amps while Torme was bouncing all over the stage. 'High School Hop' carried the encore on til we were all knackered." Janet Bunker

Gillan toured Germany in February, which included a live radio broadcast from Muehldorf on the 26th. They then toured the uk in March, a lot of dates clashing with Rainbow concerts. There was supposed to be a tie-in single, Acrobat had problems though which prevented them getting any discs out. Around March 23rd/24th the band re-recorded 'Sleeping On The Job' for an a-side. April has been set aside for them to record the new studio album.