“Nobody's Fool” by Cinderella

Cinderella's 1986 debut Night Songs was mostly about swagger, but "Nobody's Fool" is where they slowed down and let Tom Keifer bleed. It's a power ballad about love going sour, and Keifer has said it wasn't aimed at any one person but boiled down from several breakups he'd lived through. He wrote it alone, sings it like every word stings, and plays piano and guitar next to Jeff LaBar, with Eric Brittingham and Fred Coury anchoring the bottom and Andy Johns producing.

The single climbed to 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987. Its video picks up the fairy-tale thread from "Shake Me": the band's Cinderella girl tags along to rehearsal with the wicked sisters chasing her in a tiny Autobianchi Bianchina, until midnight strips her rocker gear away and leaves her in plain white.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.