That time Tony Carey told me that he thought “The First Day of Summer” was going to break his new album wide open

By Steve Newton Way back in May of 1984 I interviewed Tony Carey, who I'd been a fan of since I heard him playing keyboards on Rainbow's colossal Rising album of 1976. At the time of our chat he was promoting his new solo album Some Tough City, which was doing well on the charts … Continue reading That time Tony Carey told me that he thought “The First Day of Summer” was going to break his new album wide open

Tony Carey rips into Rainbow after “A Fine, Fine Day”, just before “The First Day of Summer”

The memories of his time in Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow are not joyous ones for Tony Carey, who was a member of the band for three years.