Long Cold Winter

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Long Cold Winter

Studio album by Cinderella
Released	1988
Genre	Glam metal
Length	43:51
Label	Mercury
Producer(s)	Andy Johns
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Cinderella chronology
Night Songs (1986)	Long Cold Winter (1988)	Heartbreak Station (1990)

Long Cold Winter is Cinderella's second album. It featured the #12 US hit "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)", which was to be Cinderella's biggest hit, as well as further hits, "The Last Mile" (US #36), "Coming Home" (US #20) and the classic "Gypsy Road", which hit #51 in the US a full year after the release of the album itself. The album got to #10 in the US, which was initially a minor disappointment compared to Night Songs' #3, though it did go double-platinum (2 million albums sold) in the US by the end of the year, just as Night Songs had done. It soon became apparent that Cinderella's star hadn't faded the least with both albums going triple platinum in the 1990's.

With Long Cold Winter, Cinderella started to move away from the hair metal-territory of their previous album and into a more classic rock direction, akin to early 70's Rolling Stones, Humble Pie and Deep Purple. Still retaining elements of their Def Leppard-like past, Long Cold Winter is widely seen as the representative sound of Cinderella, bridging a gap between their pop-metal beginnings to that of their later styles, represented by the 1990's Heartbreak Station album.