RAINBOW – STONE COLD 12″ – Nr MINT 1982 UK RITCHIE BLACKMORE

Rainbow – Stone Cold
(Polydor Records  1982  POSPX421)
Matrix No’s; A1/B2 – UK Pressing

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Sleeve in Excellent/Very Good+ conditon
– some light foxing spots & small split in bottom

Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow or Blackmore’s Rainbow) are a British rock band led by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, active from 1975 to 1984 and 1993 to 1997, and again since 2015. They were originally established with Ronnie James Dio’s American rock band Elf, but after the first album, Blackmore fired the backing members and continued with Dio until 1979. Three British musicians joined in 1979, singer Graham Bonnet, keyboardist Don Airey, former Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover, and this line-up gave the band their commercial breakthrough with the single “Since You Been Gone”. Over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up. Other lead singers Joe Lynn Turner and Doogie White would follow, and the project consisted of numerous backing musicians. The band’s early work primarily featured mystical lyrics with a neoclassical metal style, but went in a more streamlined, commercial direction following Dio’s departure from the group.

Rainbow were ranked No. 90 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. The band has sold over 28 million albums worldwide.

“Stone Cold” is a song by British-American rock band Rainbow. It was released as a single in 1982 from their album Straight Between the Eyes.

Tracklist

Personnel

Personnel

Rainbow

• Ritchie Blackmore – guitar
• Roger Glover – bass, producer
• Joe Lynn Turner – vocals
• Bobby Rondinelli – drums
• David Rosenthal – keyboards