''Gravity's Rainbow'' is the ninth

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...

and tenth album overall by American singer

Pat Benatar Patricia Mae Giraldo (née Andrzejewski; formerly and still professionally Benatar ; born January 10, 1953) is an American singer and songwriter. In the United States, she has two multi-platinum albums, five platinum albums, and 15 US ''Billboa ...

. It was released in 1993 on

Chrysalis Records Chrysalis Records () is a British independent record label that was founded in 1968. The name is both a reference to the pupal stage of a butterfly and a combination of its founders' names, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis. It started as the Ell ...

. The album is named after

Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, Literary genre, genres and Theme (narrative), th ...

's 1973 novel of the same name, but was not otherwise directly inspired by the novel. It peaked at No. 85 on the US ''Billboard'' 200, ''Gravity's Rainbow'' would be Benatar's last studio album recorded for Chrysalis.

Track listing

Singles

Personnel

Band members

– vocals, executive producer *

Neil Giraldo Neil Thomas Giraldo (born December 29, 1955) is an American musician, record producer, arranger, and songwriter best known as the musical partner of Pat Benatar since 1979and spouse since 1982. He has also performed, written and produced for art ...

– guitar, keyboards, percussion, executive producer *Frank Linx – bass, percussion *Myron Grombacher – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

*Greg Piccolo – saxophone on "Crazy" *

Richard Dodd Richard Dodd (born April 25, 1965) is an English cellist, recording artist and musician. He has appeared on numerous records beginning from The Three O'Clock's Album Sixteen Tambourines, and spanning different musical genres in Pop, with acts ...

– cello on "Somebody's Baby" *Donte Scher – violin on "Somebody's Baby"

Production

Don Gehman Don Gehman is an American record producer, engineer, and executive, best known for his work with John Mellencamp and Hootie & the Blowfish. AllMusic calls him one of "the most successful producers of the 1980s and 1990s." As a sound engineer, he ...

– producer, engineer *Rick Will – engineer, mixing of "Tradin' Down" *Ed Thacker – mixing *Danny Alonso – mix assistant *Sheldon and Nicholas Devane – mixing of "Pictures of a Gone World" and "Rise (Part 2)" *

Stephen Marcussen Stephen Marcussen is the founder and chief mastering engineer at Marcussen Mastering in Hollywood, California Hollywood, sometimes informally called Tinseltown, is a List of districts and neighborhoods in Los Angeles, neighborhood and distri ...

– mastering

Charts

Weekly charts

References

{{Authority control 1993 albums Pat Benatar albums Albums produced by Don Gehman Chrysalis Records albums