Rainbow

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1678339]

Comments

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It is sad that I saw the word "Rainbow" and instantly sang "Up above the streets and houses", but it is true.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

+1

*blushes, hides*

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

*is a child of the eighties*

Actually, the first name I thought of was [colleague who has just given me a pile of expense forms from LGBT committee], but the TV programme was next on the list.

[muninnhuginn]

None of the above, really.

[lanciatore.livejournal.com]

None of the above - I thought of D.H.Lawrence

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

Judy Garland, here.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Actually, I would have expected it to be George, Bungle and co, but the image that popped into my head was this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mSkZU8IkjE&feature=related

Does anyone else think that Graham Bonnet (Rainbow lead singer) looks just like Eric Roberts playing the Master in Doctor Who? It's the shades. http://wilybadger.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/the_master1.jpg

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I always think of Ronnie James Dio as "the" lead singer of Rainbow, but, of course, they had several lead singers over time.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I think Dio was "the" lead singer and Bonnet was "a" lead singer after Dio left!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I remember idly leafing through a copy of "Rock Family Trees" (or whatever it was called), and being amazed at the work that had gone into depicting Deep Purple and its offspring.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I'm too old (and childless) to know anything about the TV series.

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

I thought of the people at No.52 first.

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

And after that, The Celestial Steam Locomotive

[segh.livejournal.com]

The junior wing of the Guide Movement.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

...although I'm sure I was influenced by the fact that I didn't hear "rainbow", I saw "Rainbow," written with a capital, so took it as a proper noun. If I'd just heard the word "rainbow" out of context, I would just have imagined an actual rainbow.

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

I thought of John Keats and Lamia first:

Philosophy will clip an Angel’s wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine —
Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made
The tender-person’d Lamia melt into a shade...

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Although this does come back to Newton, sort of.

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

'Since you've been gone' burst into my head, hotly followed by Dorothy!

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

And I've never seen the damn show! But one of my contemporary Hildabeasts was described as looking like ZippyfromRainbow, so the association stuck.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

I also think of a littler* version of Brownie Guides ;)

*Yes I know, technically not a word