Lady double dealer
| Lady double dealer | |
|---|---|
| Deep Purple | |
| publication | November 1974 |
| length | 3:19 |
| Genre (s) | Hard rock , heavy metal |
| text | David Coverdale |
| music | Ritchie Blackmore |
| Label |
EMI Music (Europe) Warner Bros. (USA) |
| album | Stormbringer |
| Cover version | |
| 2015 | Whitesnake : The Purple Album |
Lady Double Dealer is a song by the British rock band Deep Purple that was released on the 1974 album Stormbringer , and was also released as a single. The style of the song is in the genre of hard rock and early heavy metal .
admission
Lady Double Dealer was recorded in the Munich Musicland Studios in August 1974 , and is considered the most driving and firing song on the album , along with the title track Stormbringer .
Live performances
Live the guitar solo, which was played more gently in the studio version, was electronically amplified by Ritchie Blackmore and lived mainly from its fast and screaming sound. Lady Double Dealer was part of their live program in early 1975. After Blackmore left in April of the same year, the song was no longer performed with his successor Tommy Bolin . Lady Double Dealer can be found on various concert recordings such as Graz 1975 or Live in Paris 1975 , as well as on the live album Made in Europe recorded at these and a concert in Saarbrücken and published again in 1976 after the dissolution of Deep Purple . After Deep Purple's reunion in 1984, the song was removed from the live program and has not been performed live to this day.
Cover versions
In 2015 Lady Double Dealer was released on Whitesnake's The Purple album along with 14 other songs from the " Coverdale era" . The song was also covered around 1978 by the first line-up of Iron Maiden with Paul Di'Anno and later by both ex-Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes and ex-singer Joe Lynn Turner .
Web links
literature
- Jürgen Roth and Michael Sailer: Deep Purple, the story of a band . Verlagsgruppe Koch GmbH / Hannibal, 2005. p. 270.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lady Double Dealer on www.metal-archives.com
- ↑ DEEP PURPLE'S STORMBRINGER TURNS 40 - "I'VE NEVER EMBRACED THE EXPRESSION HEAVY METAL BECAUSE ALL MY THEMES ARE EMOTIONAL" , by Martin Popoff, 2014, on www.bravewords.com
- ↑ The 100 Greatest Bands of All Time: A Guide to the Legends Who Rocked the world , edited by David V. Moskowitz, 2015, p. 202
- ↑ Alex Henderson: Deep Purples Stormbringer on allmusic.com
- ↑ Deep Purple live albums at www.thehighwaystar.com
- ↑ Killers: The Origins Of Iron Maiden 1975-1983, by Neil Daniels, p. 26