Stranger in Us All

Stranger in Us All is the eighth and final studio album by the British hard rock band Rainbow, released on 11 September 1995 by RCA Records. This was the band's first studio album in twelve years, and originally intended to be a solo album by Ritchie Blackmore, but due to pressures from BMG, it was billed as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, which saw him putting together a new line-up featuring himself and four then-unknown musicians: vocalist Doogie White, bassist Greg Smith, keyboardist Paul Morris and drummer John O'Reilly. As Blackmore decided to pursue different musical styles (forming Blackmore's Night with his companion Candice Night), Stranger in Us All was his final recording as a rock artist for two decades, until he put together a reincarnation of Rainbow in 2016 and released a series of new singles. The album takes its name from a line in the song "Black Masquerade".