RAINBOW
Japan Tour 1976
255 X 360. 40 pages (8 in colour).
Sold at the Jan / Feb concerts. 30 pages of photos and text. 10 pages of adverts inc. colour centre ad for coffee.
Designed by T Okabe / Blacksmith.
NOTE : Matt paper, thicker card for cover and gloss for colour pages.

RAINBOW
Australian Tour 1976
215 X 280. 16 pages (spot colour).
Sold on the Australian tour, Nov. 1976 only. Some of the pages are copied from the UK tour programme, others are specific to the Australian shows, with local advertising, support band (Buffalo), tour dates, etc. Programme is printed in duotone, red and black on medium weight gloss art paper.
RAINBOW
Japan Tour 1978
255 X 360. 40 pages (8 in colour).
Sold at the Jan / Feb concerts. 30 pages of photos and text. 10 pages of adverts inc. colour centre ad for coffee.
Designed by T Okabe / Blacksmith.
NOTE : Gloss paper and thicker card for cover and some pages inside.

Japan programmes note:

The earliest Deep Purple related programme is for the 1972 Deep Purple tour. From this time until the early 1980s all Japan tour programmes were a large format with striking cover designs. They look impressive, but the content is usually rather sparse as they didn't have much original material to work from, and the photo quality can be poor at times.

The promoters then changed to an album sized format with more pages, and the content improved.

Inevitably these programmes are quite rare and expensive now, especially as some of the tours only had a few dates (by contrast the same tour programme might be sold right across Europe, so many more were printed).
RAINBOW
Japan Tour 1980
300 X 300. 36 pages (8 in colour).
Sold at the May concerts. Photos and text. Good quality images of the Airey / Bonnet line-up. 9 pages of adverts inc. colour centre ad for Bridgstone tyres (with Sean Connery!).
Designed by Sujuro Hinatayama.
NOTE : Gloss paper and thicker card for cover.
RAINBOW
Japan Tour 1981
300 X 300. 36 pages (8 in colour).
Sold at the August concerts. Photos and text. Good quality images of the Turner / Rondinelli line-up. 7 pages of adverts inc. colour centre ad for coffee.
Designed by Design Factory 'Yes'.
NOTE : Gloss paper and thicker card for cover.

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