Metal Talk ranked “Stone Cold” among Rainbow’s greatest songs, going so far as to claim that it “may have been the original prototype power ballad.”
In the book The Other Side of the Rainbow, Turner admitted the band didn’t know “what they were doing” when they made the music video. “I’m walking around with google eyes, in a leather jacket, putting up the collar, and walking around in these mirrors,” he recalled, per Classic Rock. “But it did what it did for us, so no harm done.”
Ritchie Blackmore wanted a hit
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Turner said that as a Rainbow newcomer, it was hard for him to win over fans—at first. “My theory is that fans find it difficult to reconcile what they’re used to hearing with something new,” he said. “I don’t care who you replace or whatever happens. If they don’t hear that old familiar, they’re going to crucify you. I got crucified several times.”
Turner also shared the backstory on “Stone Cold,” which was started when Rainbow was on the road.
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