"Man on the Silver Mountain" is a song by English-American rock band Rainbow, released as the first track of their 1975 debut studio album, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. Written by Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio, it was their debut single.
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Personnel
Rainbow
Ritchie Blackmore – guitars, producer
Ronnie James Dio – vocals, producer
Gary Driscoll – drums
Craig Gruber – bass
Mickey Lee Soule – piano, Mellotron, Clavinet, organ
Production
Martin Birch – producer, engineer, mixing
Reception
Brad Sanders of The A.V. Club wrote that, although the song's lyrics are essentially meaningless, the way that Dio sings them "sounds awesome". After Dio's death, Rob Halford performed a cover of the song and said it "captures the things I personally love in metal tracks".