The product of manager / mentor Marty Wolff's imagination, STONE FURY was pieced together in Los Angeles during 1983. German born frontman Lenny Wolf had been playing in a group called FUNHOUSE in Hamburg and was introduced to Marty Wolff (no relation) by his then guitarist. Wolf and FUNHOUSE recorded some demos and Marty took them to Elektra in Los Angeles with a view to getting a deal, but things didn't work out and Lenny wound up quitting FUNHOUSE in order to go to Los Angeles. Marty Wolff introduced Lenny to guitarist Bruce Gowdy upon the German's arrival in Los Angeles and this pairing recorded 'Life Is Too Lonely' and 'Tease' as demo tracks.

Having returned to Germany, Lenny Wolf was amazed to find something of a bidding war had erupted between a number of major labels looking to sign this new 'group' on the strength of the two tracks. MCA Records won the day, the then untitled project signing to the label on 4th May 1983.

With the record pretty well written, Gowdy introduced drummer Jody Cortez into the line-up. He would be followed by bassist Rick Wilson.

The STONE FURY debut album, 'Burns Like A Star', was released in 1984 and the group shot a video in London for the track 'Break Down The Walls' a few weeks before it hit the racks. The debut sold well but just failed to break into the American charts.

Jody Cortez quit late in 1984, ex LITA FORD drummer Randy Castillo promptly replacing Cortez for touring purposes. Castillo's LITA FORD colleague Randy Rand filled the bass slot as Wilson opted out as STONE FURY opened up for AEROSMITH. Castillo would post STONE FURY go on to higher profile work enjoying a lenghty term with OZZY OSBOURNE and in 1999 joining MÖTLEY CRÜE. He would sadly pass away on March 26th 2002 succumbing to a lengthy battle with cancer.

'Let Them Talk' album saw STONE FURY essentially trimmed to the duo of Wolf and Gowdy and teamed with producer Richard Landis. Sessioners included bassist Dean Cortez, keyboards from Alan Pasqua and drums by Vinnie Colaitua. Strangely, the record was a disappointment, veering off into more Pop Rock territory as the duo went all experimental, eschewing the ZEPPELIN-esque traits of 'Burns Like A Star'. Such a drastic change in direction led, needless to say, to STONE FURY's demise.

As Lenny Wolf went off to resurrect the earlier STONE FURY sound with the trés ZEPPELIN influenced KINGDOM COME, Bruce Gowdy put the Progressive influenced WORLD TRADE together with LODGIC and YES man Billy Sherwood before forming UNRULY CHILD with ex-KING KOBRA and SIGNAL vocalist MARK FREE. Meantime, Jody Cortez had played drums in a session capacity on CINDERELLA's 'Night Songs' debut in 1986.

To cash-in on the success of KINGDOM COME, MCA released the compilation album 'The Best Of Stone Fury' in June 1988 which turned out to be a reasonable representation of both albums nonetheless with five tracks taken from each. Wolf eventually re-located KINGDOM COME to his native Germany where the band, now essentially a solo venture, continues to issue class melodic Rock product.

Jody Cortez had a busy 1997 appearing on albums by TAMARA CHAMPLIN, PHIL CHRISTIAN and BIG MOUTH. Sadly, Randy Castillo lost his long battle against cancer on March 26th 2002.