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Confidant and wardrobe consultant
Candice Night was interviewed by eonmusic, and in between some things that have been discussed previously, the last Rainbow incarnation came up.
Finally, I wanted to touch on Rainbow’s shows in 2016, and onward; that must have been special for you, to help make that all happen.
One hundred percent. I absolutely loved doing that because, I mean, it’s funny being, you know, the wife, the best friend, the confidant, the wardrobe consultant, and everything, but also being such a big fan of that band and of his, and watching him in his element, doing the songs that I grew up on that I’m just such a huge fan of. So as he’s sitting there doing the track list and making it, I’m going; “wow!” And I honestly didn’t think he was going to ask me to do backing singing. I was just happy to be around that music in a live forum, so when he asked me to do it, and the other backing singer from Blackmore’s Night at that point, we were able to get out there and just stand on that stage and listen to those songs live, and a lot of the songs I had never heard. I mean, the first time I saw Ritchie live, was six months before I met him, I went to a concert out here in the Meadowlands. It was a huge stadium, and it was Deep Purple, Guns n’ Roses on their maiden tour with ‘Appetite for Destruction’, and Aerosmith on a triple bill.That’s a great line-up!
I was boots on the floor, general admission, getting knocked around, and all five four of me, but that energy! I later heard that during ‘Smoke on the Water’ the fans had set the seats on fire. It was 1989 and that’s the first time that I saw Ritchie perform on stage, and then I met him a few months later because I was working at the radio station, and we met on the football pitch, but I’d never seen Rainbow from back in the day, and when he started reforming Rainbow in 1995, and of course, I went on tour with them, with Doogie White [singing], it was great to be part of that whole thing. But hearing those classic songs that I grew up with, yeah, being part of that, and watching that from the stage is just that was electric. I’m really glad I was part of it all.
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