He was born the son of Jimmy and Pam Harley. He adopted the stage name "Rainbow" to avoid confusion with Steve Harley, saying:
"Steve Harley was at his peak and I didn't want any confusion. The name Rainbow was found one evening as me and some friends were watching TV and the reporter’s name flashed on the screen as ‘Christopher Rainbow’, so that was that."
The Alan Parsons Project

Before joining the Project, Rainbow was involved in a band called Hope Street for a year. Following this, he released three solo albums Home of the Brave in 1975, Looking Over My Shoulder in 1977, and White Trails in 1979. Tracks from the latter two albums are collected on The Best of Chris Rainbow, 1972-1980, which has appeared in single and double CD sets and included radio spots, and rare and unreleased material. At this time Rainbow received much wider recognition for his music through the support of Kenny Everett, then on Capital Radio in London, who featured his music extensively. Some of the jingles that Rainbow made for Capital at this time were later released on an album of out-takes, demos and unreleased material.
Touring

Rainbow recorded and toured with Camel, including singing some lead vocals on studio albums The Single Factor (1982) and Stationary Traveller (1984). He worked with Camel keyboardist Ton Scherpenzeel on his 1984 album Heart of the Universe in a duo format, performing five lead vocals.
More recently, Rainbow ha\s produced several albums for the Scottish Gaelic rock group Runrig.

[hide]Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 3 from 28. July 2007

Отчёт EAC об извлечении, выполненном 21. октября 2008, 1:21

Chris Rainbow / Looking Over My Shoulder & Home Of The Brave

Дисковод: HL-DT-STDVDRAM GSA-E40N Adapter: 2 ID: 0

Режим чтения : Достоверность
Использование точного потока : Да
Отключение кэша аудио : Да
Использование указателей C2 : Нет

Коррекция смещения при чтении : 667
Способность читать области Lead-in и Lead-out : Нет
Заполнение пропущенных сэмплов тишиной : Да
Удаление блоков с тишиной в начале и конце : Нет
При вычислениях CRC использовались нулевые сэмплы : Да
Интерфейс : Встроенный Win32-интерфейс для Win NT/2000

Выходной формат : Пользовательский кодировщик
Выбранный битрейт : 768 kBit/s
Качество : Высокий
Добавление ID3-тэга : Нет
Утилита сжатия : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Дополнительные параметры : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d

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2 | 4:09.00 | 3:31.64 | 18675 | 34563
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Имя файла D:\Музыка\Torrents\Chris Rainbow\Chris Rainbow - Unknown Title.wav

Пиковый уровень 100.0 %
Качество диапазона 99.9 %
CRC копии D81D3DFA
Копирование... OK

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Started at: вторник, 21. 10. 2008. - 9:31.06
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01 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\01 You And I.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

02 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\02 Give Me Just A Little Bit Of Your Heart.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

03 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\20 Home Of The Brave.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

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Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

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Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

06 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\05 All Night.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

07 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\06 Solid State Brain.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

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Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

09 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\08 Blue Bird.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

10 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\09 Give Me What I Cry For.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 99%

11 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\10 Living In The World Today.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

12 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\11 In And Out And Round About.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

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Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

14 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\13 Funky Parrot.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 99%

15 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\14 On My Way.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

16 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\15 Glasgow Boy.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

17 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\16 MrMan.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

18 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\17 In Memory.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

19 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\18 Is The Summer Really Over.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

20 -===- C:\mp3dooutput\19 A Woman On My Mind.wav
Conclusion: this track is CDDA with probability 100%

Finished at: вторник, 21. 10. 2008. - 10:04.34 (operation time: 0:33.28)[/hide]