I found this little news snippet on the Deep Purple site http://www.thehighwaystar.com/

A RAINBOW box set provisionally entitled A LIGHT IN THE DARK is being released. It contains many previously unreleased tracks, and spans the band’s years from 1975 – 1984. More news soon, but it could be out before the end of the year.

That's funny-I had just mentioned this in the Black Masquerade thread a little bit before this post.

There are two boxes due-a Singles box which I believe is due first this fall and this box which I am really looking forward to. Hope it's this year. I was told there probably won't be any more individual remasters but this box should be great.

I have all of the remasters as well as the deluxe sets, so I'm hoping this will have even more material to warrant a purchase.

I have been told the DVD is looking quite special for the box set. Think Donnington 1980. That's all I can say for now and I don't know if that's going to be what we hope it is...but it might!

That DVD might be the decider right there for me.

Rick A.

Update:
I can now confirm that yes, this box set is indeed due out in November!

It will be 5 CDs and a DVD.

And the DVD is...Donnington 1980.

Wow-after all this time! I do not know the DVD contents but this is all I have been told so far.

The CDs will feature classics and rare tracks, though I do not know what rare tracks are being included.

As this is truly one of my favorite musical acts, I will be purchasing it or asking Santa.

I'm hoping it is the full Donnington show, but 5 CD's? That seems like a lot for a band that released only 8 albums.

Cd 4 will be 16 different versions of Stone Cold including the unreleased Ian Gillan version.

And the version featuring Paul Rodgers, of course.

Whatever.

In any case, I am curious as to what the rare cuts are since there wasn't a whole lot of note on the remasters.

There easily could be a lot of live material though as almost every tour had radio broadcasts and the early tours had lots of recordings from the band's archives.

I'm with you, Pete. I would love to get some live material, especially with the Bonnett and JLT years. The Dio years have been represented ad nauseum already.

I told them what shows I knew of were available from the Bonnett and JLT years but whether they were able to get the rights to any of it I don't know.

I'd guess that a good amount of live material has to be on here.

The less of the Dio era, the better...

I do love Dio, but there is plenty of live Dio available.

A full Bonnett show would be great...Donnington was a great show, they even played Stargazer.

I have that version on the various artists album of the first Monsters Of Rock from 1980.

Awesome.

I'll be getting this box. Looking forward to what's going to be on it.

Rick A.

Maybe they ought to do a Dio box and a Bonnet/Turner box.

Rainbow is essentially two bands and I think this would be a way where everybody wins!!

I used to have that album years ago. The Rainbow performances were incredible. If I remember right, there was only two songs on there from them.

All Night Long and Stargazer.