Since You Been Gone

"Since You Been Gone"
Single by Rainbow
from the album Down to Earth
A-side "Since You Been Gone"
B-side "Bad Girl"
Released August 1979 (1979-08)
Format 7" single
Label Polydor
Songwriter(s) Russ Ballard
Producer(s) Roger Glover
Rainbow singles chronology
"LA Connection"
(1978)		 "Since You Been Gone"
(1979)		 "All Night Long"
(1980)

"Since You Been Gone" is a song by Rainbow written by former Argent guitarist Russ Ballard and first released on his 1976 album Winning. It was produced by Roger Glover.[1]

Cover versions

Prior to Rainbow, the Illinois rock band Head East recorded and released a cover version of the song in 1978 on their album Pictures, attaining popularity and peaking at #46 on the charts. A year later Rainbow re-recorded the song and released it as a B-side single. Head East's version of this song was their highest charting single.

Rainbow's cover version, released in 1979 with Graham Bonnet on lead vocals, was a Top 10 single in the United Kingdom and was named the 82nd best hard rock song of all time by VH1.[2] Rainbow's version was used in a 2009 T-Mobile advertisement filmed at Liverpool Street station in London, England.

Other cover versions include those by South African all-girl band Clout on their 1978 album Substitute, aka Clout, and Head East on their eponymous 1978 album, reaching #46 on the Billboard Hot 100. Former Runaways vocalist Cherie Currie recorded the song as a duet with her sister Marie Currie on their 1980 album Messin' with the Boys. Their version reached #95 on the Billboard Hot 100.[3]

Alcatrazz, also fronted by Graham Bonnet, covered the song on their album Live Sentence with Yngwie Malmsteen on guitar, and yet another Bonnet fronted outfit, Impellitteri, recorded it for their 1988 debut album Stand in Line.

Brian May of Queen performed the song live on the Back to the Light tour in 1993, and it appears on the Live at the Brixton Academy multi-format release.

References

  1. ↑ "Since you been gone". Discogs.com. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-12. Retrieved 2009-02-07.
  3. ↑ "Album Search for "messin with the boys"". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-10-11.


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