Since You Been Gone

"Since You Been Gone" is a song written by former Argent guitarist Russ Ballard and first released on his 1976 album Winning. It was popularized in a version by Rainbow in 1979.

This article is about the 1976 rock song by Russ Ballard. For the Kelly Clarkson song, see Since U Been Gone. For other songs with similar titles, see Since You've 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"
ReleasedAugust 1979 (1979-08)
GenreHard rock[1]
Length3:17
LabelPolydor
Songwriter(s)Russ Ballard
Producer(s)Roger Glover
Rainbow singles chronology
"LA Connection"
(1978)		 "Since You Been Gone"
(1979)		 "All Night Long"
(1980)

Cover versions

Prior to Rainbow, the Illinois rock band Head East recorded and released a cover version of the song on their 1978 eponymous album, reaching No. 46 on the Billboard Hot 100. Head East's version of this song was their highest charting single.

A year later, Rainbow recorded the song and released it as the first single from their 1979 album Down to Earth with Graham Bonnet on lead vocals. It was a top 10 hit single in the United Kingdom and was named the 82nd Best Hard Rock Song of All Time by VH1.[1] Rainbow's version was used in a 2009 T-Mobile advertisement filmed at Liverpool Street station in London and in the 2018 Netflix documentary Three Identical Strangers.

Other cover versions include those by South African all-female band Clout on their 1978 album Substitute, a.k.a. Clout, and by former Runaways vocalist Cherie Currie as a duet with her sister Marie Currie on the 1980 album Messin' with the Boys. Their version reached No. 95 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2]

Alcatrazz, also fronted by Graham Bonnet, covered the song on the 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. "Vh1 Top 100 Hard Rock Songs". 12 February 2009. Archived from the original on 12 February 2009.
  2. "Album Search for "messin with the boys"". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-10-11.


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