Editing Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (section)

==Release==
The original vinyl release had a gate-fold sleeve, although the later budget re-issue on Polydor was reduced to a single sleeve. On the cassette version of the album, Side One features the last five tracks, while Side Two plays the first four. On the case insert and on the cassette itself, "Sixteenth Century Greensleeves" is written as "Sixteen Century Greensleeves".

''Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow'' was re-issued on CD in re-mastered form in the US in April 1999. The European release followed later in the year.

Vocalist Ronnie James Dio considered this release his favourite Rainbow album.<ref>{{cite book |last= Popoff |first=Martin |author-link = Martin Popoff |title = ''The Very Beast of Dio'' (liner notes) |page = 11  }}</ref>

Despite the title implying the record being a Ritchie Blackmore solo release, in later years Blackmore has jokingly stated that Dio's contributions warranted a re-titling of "Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio's Rainbow".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://images.radcity.net/6340/2165303.pdf |title=Black Sabbath : The Dio Years |first=Jon |last= Hotten |author-link=Jon Hotten |date=1988 |access-date=2016-01-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124161532/http://images.radcity.net/6340/2165303.pdf |archive-date=24 January 2009 }}</ref>