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“All Night Long” by Rainbow
From the album Down to Earth (1979)
“All Night Long” by Rainbow appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1990. It was first released in 1979 on the album Down to Earth. Its best result is #992 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #2,422 hard rock song of all time.
Ritchie Blackmore and Roger Glover wrote "All Night Long" for Down to Earth, Rainbow's fourth album, in 1979, and Glover produced it as well. The lineup on it wouldn't last: Graham Bonnet out front on lead vocals, Blackmore on guitar, Glover on bass, Don Airey on keyboards and Cozy Powell on drums.
Issued as a single, it went to number 5 in the UK, the band's second top-10 hit there. Record Mirror's Simon Ludgate adored it for being wildly over the top, dumb lyrics and all, and said Powell sounded like he was pounding a big biscuit tin. It was also the last single Bonnet sang for them: he and Powell were both gone once the Monsters of Rock festival wrapped in August 1980.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 992 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
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