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The song reached the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 40 on June 19, 1982, and spent 12 weeks on the chart. [2] This was the band's only top 40 song in the United States. It also topped the Billboard Top Rock Tracks on June 5, 1982.
The song was the first time that Barnes had collaborated with former members of Cold Chisel since the band's demise. He said, "When Ian Moss played guitar on it in the studio, it was all so Chisel-esque that it made the hairs stand up on the back of our necks when we played it back.
"Stone Cold" is a soul ballad. [7] [11] It was written by Lovato, Laleh Pourkarim and Gustaf Thörn.According to the digital sheet music published by Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc., "Stone Cold" was originally composed in the key of F minor with a "moderately fast" tempo of approximately 144 BPM. [8]
Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow or Blackmore's Rainbow) was a British rock band formed in Hertford in 1975 by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore.Established in the aftermath of Blackmore's first departure from Deep Purple, they originally featured four members of the American rock band Elf, including their singer Ronnie James Dio, but after their self-titled debut album, Blackmore ...
Music magazine Q described "Stone Cold Crazy" as "thrash metal before the term was invented". [5] In 2009, it was named the 38th best hard rock song of all time by VH1. [16] DRUM! called it an "early blisteringly fast song", describing Taylor's performance as "straight-up punk-rock drumming. [...] In essence, Taylor's groove is a double-stroke ...
Videos were shot for the songs "Stone Cold" and "Death Alley Driver", the latter featuring Sega's video game Turbo. Both videos received heavy play on MTV and were later included on Rainbow's The Final Cut home video in 1985.
The lively tone of the music is matched by the use of dark humor in the lyrics. The song is sung in first-person and tells the story of an unnamed woman who killed her husband with a rolling pin, bashing in his skull while in a marketplace after he went out drinking and then came home and beat her. The narrative shifts back and forth between ...
The album features the classic rock song "Stone Cold Fever", written by all four members. [4] Marriott's ballad "A Song For Jenny" (written for first wife Jenny Rylance) features The Soul Sisters (Doris Troy, P.P. Arnold and Claudia Lennear) on backing vocals. B.J. Cole contributes pedal steel guitar. "Strange Days" is a blues rock song in ...