"Rain" is a song by the English progressive rock/hard rock band Uriah Heep, which was originally released on their fifth studio album, "The Magician's Birthday", in 1972.
 Though the song was never released as a single, it is one of the most well-known songs from the album.
 It was written by Ken Hensley, who also performed the keyboard/piano element of the song, with vocals by David Byron.
 It was the band's first song to utilize only the keyboards/piano and vocals with some additional bass guitar parts.
 AllMusic said the song was a "lovely piano ballad".
The Company of Snakes were an English rock band formed in 1998, by former members of the English rock band Whitesnake who were also members of The Snakes.
 They released two albums before morphing into M3 during 2004.
The Rats were an American garage punk band from Portland, Oregon, formed by Fred Cole previously of the garage rock band, The Lollipop Shoppe.
 Cole played guitar and sang, his wife, "Toody" played bass and sang, and initially Rod Rat played drums.
 Their sound was a raw mix of punk rock with occasional country touches.
 Their self-titled debut album appeared on Cole's Whizeagle label in 1980.
 Soon after, Rod Rat left the band, though he guested on the 1981 follow-up "Intermittent Signals" before his death by suicide.
 (Prior to his suicide Rod Rat (aka Rod Hibbert) also played drums in 1980-81 for Portland power pop band Domino Theory).
 Sam Henry, formerly of the Wipers, played drums on this LP but left to join another Portland band, Napalm Beach.
 Louis Samora was on the drum throne for the 1983 album "In a Desperate Red", still on Whizeagle.
 Samora left in 1984 to concentrate on his rockabilly band, The Jackals.
 The band broke up, but Bill Barker of Profile Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia convinced the band to reunite for a single.
 It appeared under the band name The Desperate Edge later in 1984.
 Soon after, Cole assembled a country band, Western Front, and he and Toody later reunited in Dead Moon.
 The Rats' records have long been out of print and sell for high prices on eBay.
 In 2008, Portland's Mississippi Records reissued the first album on vinyl.
Noel Thomas David Gallagher (born 29 May 1967) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist.
 He served as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the English rock band Oasis.
 Raised in Burnage, Manchester, Gallagher began learning guitar at the age of thirteen.
 After a series of odd jobs in construction, he worked for local Manchester band Inspiral Carpets as a roadie and technician in 1988.
 Whilst touring with them, he learned that his brother Liam Gallagher had formed a band of his own, known as The Rain, which eventually took on the name Oasis.
 After Gallagher returned to England, he was invited by his brother to join Oasis as songwriter and guitarist.
Sumé (meaning "where?"
 in Greenlandic) was a Greenlandic rock band considered the pioneers of Greenlandic rock music.
 They were formed in 1972 around the singer, guitarist and composer Malik Høegh (born 1952), and guitarist, singer and composer Per Berthelsen.
 Their first record "Sumut" "where to?"
 was released in 1973 on the Greenlandic ULO label and was purchased by 20 percent of the Greenlandic population becoming an important part of the Greenlandic movement for cultural independence of Denmark.
 The band was inspired by American rock, but sang in the Greenlandic language and their lyrics were progressive and critical of the Danish colonial power.
 In the song "Nunaqarfiit" they sang "It is time to live again as Inuit and not as Westerners".
 The cover of the 1973 record Sumut showed a reproduction of a 19th-century woodcut by Aron of Kangeq depicting an Inuit hunter killing a Danish trader.
Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969.
 Twelve of the band's albums have made it to the UK Albums Chart ("Return to Fantasy" reached No. 7 in 1975) while of the fifteen "Billboard" 200 Uriah Heep albums "Demons and Wizards" was the most successful (#23, 1972).
 In the late 1970s the band had massive success in Germany, where the "Lady in Black" single was a big hit.
 Along with Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, Uriah Heep had become one of the top rock bands in the early 1970s.
Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991.
 Developed from an earlier group, the Rain, the band originally consisted of Liam Gallagher (vocals and tambourine), Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs (guitar), Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan (bass guitar), and Tony McCarroll (drums, percussion).
 They were later joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher (lead guitar and vocals) as a fifth member, becoming the band's settled line-up until April 1995.
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968.
 The band is considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although their musical approach changed over the years.
 Originally formed as a progressive rock band, the band shifted to a heavier sound in 1970.
 Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies".
 They were listed in the 1975 "Guinness Book of World Records" as "the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre, and have sold over 100 million albums worldwide.
Zak Richard Starkey (born 13 September 1965) is an English rock drummer whose music career spans more than 30 years.
 He has performed and recorded with English rock band The Who since 1996.
 He is also the third drummer to have appeared with English rock band Oasis.
 He has also worked with other musicians and bands such as Johnny Marr, Paul Weller, The Icicle Works, The Waterboys, ASAP, The Lightning Seeds, and John Entwistle.
 He is the son of The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
"Natural Born Bugie" (often misspelled "Natural Born Boogie") is the debut single released in 1969 by English rock band Humble Pie, who were one of the first British supergroups.
 It was written as a mid tempo rock song by Steve Marriott, for Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label and became the band's first single release.
 The original UK B-Side was "Wrist Job" and it was replaced with "I'll Go Alone" for a later release in United States.
 The three guitarists sang a verse each.

Question: Where is the English rock band who sang  "Rain" formed 
Answer: London