First-year pressing
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 1975 Japan Pressing (MP 2502)
- Artist
- Rainbow
- Title
- Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow = 銀嶺の覇者
- Label
- Polydor MP 2502
- Country
- Japan
- Released
- November 1975
- Format
- LP, Album, Stereo
- Format notes
- Gatefold
Runout and matrix codes
Etched or stamped in the dead wax between the last track and the label. If yours match, you have this pressing.
- 〄 MP-2502A A – 1 – 2 KJ 5Side A variant 1
- MP-2502B B – 1 – 1GSide B variant 1
- MP-2502A A – 1 – 30 CA7Side A variant 2
- MP-2502B B – 1 – 15Side B variant 2
- 〄 MP-2502A A – 1 – 25 JI6Side A variant 3
- MP-2502B B – 1 – 28Side B variant 3
- 〄 MP-2502A A - 1 - 26 JI6Side A variant 4
- MP-2502B B – 1 – 24Side B variant 4
- MP-2502A A - 1 - 5 J5 〄Side A variant 5
- MP-2502B B - 1 - 4Side B variant 5
Other Japan pressings of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
- 1975Polydor MP 2502LP, Album, Promo
- 1975Polydor MP 2502LP, Album, Test Pressing, Stereo
- 1978Polydor MPF 1144LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
- 1978Polydor MPF 1144LP, Promo, Reissue, Stereo
- 1980Polydor MPX 4023LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Stereo
- 1981Polydor 23MM 0021LP, Album, Reissue
- 1981Polydor 23MM 0021LP, Album, Reissue
- 1982Polydor 20MM 9225LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
- 1982Polydor 20MM 9225LP, Album, Promo, Reissue, Stereo
- 1986Polydor 18MM 0539LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered