Songfacts®:

• Chris Rainbow was a Scottish prog-leaning pop-rock singer, session vocalist and producer, whose 1979 song "Be Like a Woman" charted 47 years later after gaining traction on TikTok.
• The song is a tender, slightly melancholy love letter in which Rainbow offers his partner complete freedom - she can stay out all night and do as she pleases - on the condition that she "be like a woman" to him and save the last dance. The recurring phrase, "be like a woman to me," frames the song not as a demand for submission but as a plea for emotional intimacy and connection.
• Rainbow never confirmed whether the song was drawn from personal experience. A notably private artist, he left no explanatory liner notes on the parent album, White Trails, released in 1979. When he passed away in February 2015, what remained was the lyric itself, a restrained but affecting portrait of unconditional love that doesn't necessarily expect to be returned in full. A quietly devastating portrait of loving someone unconditionally, even as your heart breaks.
• Chris Rainbow wrote, produced, and arranged the track himself, recording it at Scorpio Sound in London. Around the same time, Rainbow began his long-running collaboration with The Alan Parsons Project, becoming one of their key vocalists from 1979 onward.
• The recording assembled a stellar cast of British session players:
  
  Harmony/Background Vocals: Christy Thompson, Linda Taylor, Marylyn Bairnson
  Guitar: Ian Bairnson, Mart Jenner, Hugh Barr
  Saxophone: Dick Morrissey
  Fender Rhodes & Synthesizer: Max Middleton
  Synthesizer: Dave Lawson
  Bass: Mo Foster, Pete Zorn
  Drums: Simon Phillips
  
  Ian Bairnson was a fellow Scotsman and the lead guitarist on every Alan Parsons Project album and also played the iconic solo on Kate Bush's debut single, "Wuthering Heights."
  
  Simon Phillips was already one of London's most in-demand session drummers, later going on to drum for Jeff Beck, The Who, and Toto.
  
  Widely regarded as one of Britain's finest jazz saxophonists, Dick Morrissey was celebrated for his seamless ability to bridge the worlds of jazz, rock, and soul.
  
  Max Middleton was a noted British jazz-fusion keyboardist best known for his work with Jeff Beck.
• Nearly half a century later, "Be Like a Woman" found a new audience on TikTok, where its hazy, atmospheric sound slotted neatly into the platform's aesthetic. One popular trend paired the song with images of used glasses or candles alongside captions listing personal indulgences.
• This resurgence earned Rainbow his first solo chart entries in the US and UK, arriving more than a decade after his death. The track was reissued by Rhino Records, the catalog arm of Warner Music Group.