Song · Rainbow
“Stone Cold” by Rainbow
From the album Straight Between the Eyes (1982)
“Stone Cold” by Rainbow appears on 21 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 1990 and 2026. It was first released in 1982 on the album Straight Between the Eyes. Its best result is #127 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,141 classic rock song of all time.
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"Stone Cold" came off Rainbow's 1982 album Straight Between the Eyes, and it's a hard-rock war machine doing its best slow dance. Joe Lynn Turner sings it with his heart pinned to his denim, Blackmore cuts in with stinging, lyrical guitar, David Rosenthal's keyboards lay down a moody cushion, and Bob Rondinelli keeps the beat heavy and deliberate. Roger Glover played bass and produced, and wrote it with Blackmore and Turner.
It was the ballad that finally cracked America for the band. It topped Billboard's Top Rock Tracks in June 1982 and crept to number 40 on the Hot 100, spending 12 weeks there, their only US top 40 single.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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